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Michaël Wertenberg
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Supernatural Horror Short Stories
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2017
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The Orthography of Madness and Misgivings
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2019
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Edifice Complex
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2024
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Stories to Tell your Children assuming you are a very bad parent
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Delirium's Muse
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The Quick and The Still
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What We Talk About When We Talk About Catnip
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The Cantabrigian
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The First Line volume 20 issue 3
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À l'abri de la raison
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First-person narration can sometimes have the protagonist come across as self absorbed -- especially with so many rhetorical questions! I felt this was heavy handed while ultimately leading nowhere. |
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The world of H.P Lovecraft comes to England. I enjoyed every story in this collection (minus one), especially the longer ones. Oddly, I enjoyed each story a little more than the one preceeding it. I will continue reading Ramsey Campbell, but I'm going ...more |
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Great premise. I feel so much could have been done with it. This book only scratches the surface. I wanted more. |
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This 'cute', filled-with-pop-references and slang style of writing does not usully work on me. This book was not the exception. Marijuana trafficking, drug cartles, I have no interest in that world, so obviously this book was not written for me. I rea ...more |
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“Doctor Hilliard set his elbows on the desk and buried his nose in the tepee of his index fingers.”
― Edifice Complex
― 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.”
― The Orthography of Madness and Misgivings
― 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.”
― Delirium's Muse
― 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.”
― Geek Love
― 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.”
― Frenchman's Creek
― 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.”
― Delirium's Muse
― 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.”
― The Orthography of Madness and Misgivings
― 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,...”
― House of Leaves
― House of Leaves
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