The Night We Buried Road Dog

by Jack Cady

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Genres: Fantasy, Horror, Fiction, Short Stories, Collections

203 pages, Hardcover

First published October 30, 1998

About the author

Winner of Nebula, Phillip K. Dick, World Fantasy and Bram Stoker awards.

Obituaries:
in Seattle PI
in Peninsula Daily News
in Seattle Times
from Komo News

Reviews

[D. · Rating 5 out of 5]

Reading this book, I kept wishing I had someone I could talk to about it, because I kept finding turns of phrase and ideas that were just so interesting I wanted to talk about them. Cady's name is probably unfamiliar to most readers, which is a shame. He published several books and his short stories appeared in several notable anthologies. Unfortunately, his work is tough to place into a simple category. Is it horror? It can be, but it's not horror in the traditional "scary movie" sense. Is it realism? It can be, but there's elements of fantasy, so that doesn't fit well, either. Is it magical realism? Kind of, but it's a unique brand of magical realism that doesn't fit neatly into that category, either. More than anything, Cady is a storyteller, who pulls readers in with language and characters.

In this collection Cady focuses on ghosts, but ghosts of many kinds. Supernatural ghosts, ghosts of memories, ghosts of choices not made, ghosts of nations, and ghosts of beloved cars. Again, Cady is hard to categorize. Like ghosts, the stories are slippery, and don't follow standard structures or tropes. That's part of why Cady is so fun to read, and why his work would be so good for discussion.

So . . . more people should be reading Cady. The end.

[Lee Thompson · Rating 5 out of 5]

Read this awesome novella and the killer BY REASON OF DARKNESS, as well as two incredible short stories (I Take Care of Things, and Sounds of Silence) in the Centipede Press edition of The Well. Brilliant work.

[Stosch · Rating 4 out of 5]

pretty good. simple line. this books kinda like a springstein song. captures alot of america , keeps it simple.

[Don Wenzel · Rating 4 out of 5]

Interesting collection of short stories all with supernatural elements of one kind or another.

[Taylor · Rating 2 out of 5]

Very reminiscy... sorta like a flashback, dreamscape, what's real and what's analogy sorta thing.

2.1

[CJ Mills · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a very enjoyable collection of stories about the West (Montana, if I remember rightly(.

[Joseph]

recalling a lost age in an eerie entertaining way. Go go go von dutch.

[Kallie]

I haven't finished really but may do so later. Not exactly my cup of tea though I like Cady.