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Michaël’s 2025 Year in Books
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Michaël Wertenberg
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June 14
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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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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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What We Talk About When We Talk About Catnip
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I have to be careful when I read Ramsey Campbell. His stories have a way of planting seeds in my brain. And often, what sprouts from those seeds is something troubling, something I’m not entirely confident I’ll be able to contain. Because, how much co ...more |
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The most despicable character in fiction! The play gives us a nice cathartic experience as the coniving narcissist gets his come-uppings. |
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Mark Morris came highly recommended to me. I tried to like this book. I failed. I'll start with the positives. Mark Morris is very good at writing action scenes. Unfortunately, there are only two brief scenes in this 320-page book where he gives himse ...more |
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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 ...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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