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Through Dark Eyes: Glimpses of Terror and Torment
Book by Fox, Derek M.
164 pages, Paperback
First published August 1, 2001
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March 19, 2022
(4.5 stars)
Reading this collection is like being taken back to the days when brilliant dark fiction anthology series such as Borderlands and Shadows prolifically offered, at their best, indelible visions of melancholy and morbidity. As Maynard and Sims state in their introduction, this is an elegantly ominous pageant "of crime and religion, funerals and fantasies, [and] artists and killers." Whether dealing with the spectral horrors of familial dysfunction in the opener, which reads like a far more disturbing version of Grant's "If Damon Comes," or taking a convincing turn toward the Southern Gothic in the titular tale, the author's own dark eyes shed a subtle aura of poignant suspense upon every facet of this book. In atmospheric control, emotional impact, fineness of craft and sophistication of style, many of these stories are among the most remarkably concise and distinctly modern ghost stories that I have ever encountered.
Reading this collection is like being taken back to the days when brilliant dark fiction anthology series such as Borderlands and Shadows prolifically offered, at their best, indelible visions of melancholy and morbidity. As Maynard and Sims state in their introduction, this is an elegantly ominous pageant "of crime and religion, funerals and fantasies, [and] artists and killers." Whether dealing with the spectral horrors of familial dysfunction in the opener, which reads like a far more disturbing version of Grant's "If Damon Comes," or taking a convincing turn toward the Southern Gothic in the titular tale, the author's own dark eyes shed a subtle aura of poignant suspense upon every facet of this book. In atmospheric control, emotional impact, fineness of craft and sophistication of style, many of these stories are among the most remarkably concise and distinctly modern ghost stories that I have ever encountered.
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