"Reality is a nice place to visit, but you wouldn't want to live there." -John Barth
by K.J. Parker “Thanks to my lifetime of exhaustive study, I’m the least qualified man in the world to offer an opinion.” The storytelling here is rich but not indulgent, detailed but not fussy. It moves fast, but these tales can stretch the word ‘short’ in short stories. Even the shortest have plenty of meat... Continue Reading →
by Oscar Wilde “Who art thou to bring pain into God’s world?” Mr. Wilde’s career in short stories was collected in three books published in the late 1800’s as follows: The Happy Prince and Other Tales (1888) Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime and Other Stories (1891) A House of Pomegranates (1891) The Happy Prince and Other... Continue Reading →
by Thomas F. Monteleone “If this is the Second Coming, then somebody was lying about something.” Another fantastic read, this sequel doesn’t reach the levels of destruction you'll be expecting after the end of The Blood of the Lamb. Armageddon up to the eyeballs, you'd probably guess, but instead we get a fast-paced, fairly complex... Continue Reading →
by Thomas F. Monteleone We’ve got a treasure chest of words we use when exploring things monumental. We use simpler words like excellent, amazing, gripping and powerful. We use terms like ‘show-stopping’ and ‘a masterpiece.’ Popular culture, however, has brought us to a point where words such as these have become so recognizable that they’ve... Continue Reading →
by Ray Bradbury ‘Boy!’ yelled Will. ‘Folks run like they thought the storm was here!’ ‘It is!’ shouted Jim. ‘Us!’ Jim and Will, two thirteen-year-old boys, are filled with wonder as a mysterious carnival unpacks itself before their eyes during one of their midnight (3am) excursions from the house. The two have contrasting personalities but are... Continue Reading →
by John Farris “Reckon maybe there’s a law of physics would explain how that could happen. Or else it’s one of them black arts secrets that’ll stay secret until somebody figures out the answer.” Part horror, fantasy, mystery and thriller, Wildwood is the story of a father and son traveling to a remote section of... Continue Reading →
by Robert McCammon “Something tore,” Spence said tonelessly. “Ripped open. Something won the fight, and I don’t think it was who the preachers said was gonna win.” Many of us perform a bit of research into any book before picking one up, mostly because they all take hours and we'd rather not waste our time.... Continue Reading →
by Harlan Ellison “A world that has grown so complex and uncaring with systems and brutalization of individuals because of the inertia produced by those systems’ perpetuation of self, that merely to live is to be assaulted daily by circumstances.” Shatterday is another collection favorited by one of the best short story writers in the... Continue Reading →
by Fritz Leiber “There are two sides to every woman. . . One is rational, like a man. The other knows.” Norman, a successful professor at a mid-level private college is happily married to his wife Tansy when he one day catches her practicing witchcraft. He immediately pounces on her superstitions and insists she rid... Continue Reading →
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