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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 · 173 ratings · 44 reviews · 18 distinct worksSimilar authors
Supernatural Horror Short S...

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Pulp Modern: Volume 2 Number 1

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Edifice Complex

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Delirium's Muse

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Stories to Tell your Childr...

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The Quick and The Still

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The Cantabrigian

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À l'abri de la raison

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""Sometimes, if you want to see, really see, you need to look in the dark."

Dr Matterine kind of reminded me of Dr Powell from The Void. "
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Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
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I enjoyed the novelty of the story-telling devices used in this work.
However, I'm left feeling like there wasn't much of a story here.
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Your House Is on Fire, Your Children All Gone by Stefan Kiesbye
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Gorgeously wicked

Set in a small village in Germany in the decades following the great wars, the story unfold through a series of anecdotes told by various village children as they grow up and explore the darker sides of their curiosity, plan and exec
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Silly without being fun or funny
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This book won a literary prize? (a few, actually?)
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Maynard's House by Herman Raucher
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I was expecting a horror book. This is not horror, so I was a bit disappointed.
Despite the humourous, slightly quirky tone to the writing (which I was enjoying), the main character, who is a man in his 20s, gets infatuated with a school girl which is
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A string of anecdotes that never manage to generate any momentum for me and ultimately don't lead to much. Despite the book's mammoth page count, it failed to give me a novel experience. Plus, people in this book are cruel, especially to women. I und ...more
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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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