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Michaël Wertenberg

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Born
in Paris, France
June 14

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Emma Donoghue, Clive Barker, Shirley Jackson, Adam Nevill

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May 2014


Former touring musician, former stand-up comedian, current aspiring cat hoarder, Michaël Wertenberg is a writer of dark literary and genre fiction focused on the mind's fascinating yet frightening ability to rationalize the irrational. ...more

Average rating: 4.16 · 174 ratings · 45 reviews · 18 distinct worksSimilar authors
Supernatural Horror Short S...

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Pulp Modern: Volume 2 Number 1

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The Orthography of Madness ...

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Edifice Complex

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Stories to Tell your Childr...

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Delirium's Muse

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The Quick and The Still

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À l'abri de la raison

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Flesh and Blood by D.A. Fowler
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Over-the-top, cheesy pulp tone; psycho women, twins with psychic connections.
I should have enjoyed this more than I did.
The writing was not good; not terrible, but not good either.
While the author did crank things up to ridiculous fun levels, I feel
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Sick, twisted, depraved, and bloody; and I loved it!
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For the first two-thirds, it was definitely a page-turner.
It kind of fizzles out in the final act.
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Well written, with good kinetic energy, but what was I meant to get out of this read?
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Nasty in some ways, but also fun in others.
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“Doctor Hilliard set his elbows on the desk and buried his nose in the tepee of his index fingers.”
Michaël Wertenberg, Edifice Complex

“I’m one of the good subway conductors; I wait for them to bustle and bump and cram and claw into my box–not like Sanchez, who won’t even wait a half-minute. I’ll wait. I know how badly people need their box.”
Michael Wertenberg, The Orthography of Madness and Misgivings

“It jiggled with his breaths, the fat moving in ripples as if it were but a layer of skin covering a nest of squirming larvae; that if I were to get hold of a knife and slice him open, his belly would spew forth a torrent of little writhing things to the floor.”
Michaël Wertenberg, Delirium's Muse

“The truth is always an insult or a joke. Lies are generally tastier. We love them. The nature of lies is to please. Truth has no concern for anyone’s comfort.”
Katherine Dunn, Geek Love

“No lives have been lost as yet, and none of our women have been taken," said Godolphin stiffly, "but as the fellow is a Frenchman we all realize that it is only a question of time before something dastardly occurs.”
Daphne du Maurier, Frenchman's Creek

“It jiggled with his breaths, the fat moving in ripples as if it were but a layer of skin covering a nest of squirming larvae; that if I were to get hold of a knife and slice him open, his belly would spew forth a torrent of little writhing things to the floor.”
Michaël Wertenberg, Delirium's Muse

“I’m one of the good subway conductors; I wait for them to bustle and bump and cram and claw into my box–not like Sanchez, who won’t even wait a half-minute. I’ll wait. I know how badly people need their box.”
Michael Wertenberg, The Orthography of Madness and Misgivings

“All I hope for is a moment of rational thought and one shot at action before I'm lost to a great saddening madness,...”
Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves

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