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Red Skies in the Morning
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Paracontagions infect unsuspecting viewers of certain media. They are gruesomely fatal within seven days, unless passed along to volunteers down a continuous path of temporary hosts. Pathing agent Selene must confront the realities of this new normal when her younger sister goes missing.
Cover art ©2024 Leslé Kieu
Paracontagions infect unsuspecting viewers of certain media. They are gruesomely fatal within seven days, unless passed along to volunteers down a continuous path of temporary hosts. Pathing agent Selene must confront the realities of this new normal when her younger sister goes missing.
Cover art ©2024 Leslé Kieu
95 pages, Paperback
First published October 1, 2024
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February 7, 2025
Phenomenal. I NEED more Nadia Bulkin
January 18, 2025
Bulkin turns the sailers eyes to a pathogen and all who is infected are tag as simply Zombies. This genre bending mystery gives me vibes similar to the movie
It Follows
, without the sexual elements. The cover artist, Leslié Kieu did an amazing job.
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October 26, 2024
I almost never rate or review things on Goodreads because I'm bad at writing reviews and also I use this site more like a catalog than anything else, but I kinda feel obligated to talk about this one since I'm one of only 150 people out there who has a copy of it.
Really enjoyed it! Once it gets a wider release in the novella collection Nadia Bulkin's got coming next year, this thing is gonna be massively popular among a very specific flavor of horror nerd who enjoys cursed media and SCP-adjacent "government bureau trying to contain the paranormal" stuff. I feel like a lot of other works would have gotten bogged down in all the details of how the paracontagions function and how they came into being, but Bulkin focuses way more on the immediate present and it's very much to the book's benefit. The crushing dystopia that's barely being mitigated hits way harder with everything we learn about it throughout. Great fast-paced read that you can finish in an afternoon. Excited to see more people discover it once Issues With Authority hits the shelves. Also I really gotta get around to reading She Said Destroy.
Really enjoyed it! Once it gets a wider release in the novella collection Nadia Bulkin's got coming next year, this thing is gonna be massively popular among a very specific flavor of horror nerd who enjoys cursed media and SCP-adjacent "government bureau trying to contain the paranormal" stuff. I feel like a lot of other works would have gotten bogged down in all the details of how the paracontagions function and how they came into being, but Bulkin focuses way more on the immediate present and it's very much to the book's benefit. The crushing dystopia that's barely being mitigated hits way harder with everything we learn about it throughout. Great fast-paced read that you can finish in an afternoon. Excited to see more people discover it once Issues With Authority hits the shelves. Also I really gotta get around to reading She Said Destroy.
January 6, 2025
(ABAJO, RESEÑA EN ESPAÑOL)
God knows that if there’s anyone completely obsessed with Bulkin’s writings, it’s me.In fact, I went out of my way to acquire this limited edition novel all the way to Spain. And I don’t regret it—it’s a good novel, and the cover is stunning. However, it wasn’t what I was expecting.
It’s enormously original, as is customary with the author, but here the horror aspect blends too much with everything else for my taste. The social critique and the portrayal of a world both vastly different and eerily similar to our own its interesting, but eats away the atmosphere of strange horror her stories are known for.
The extended length, along with an obvious decision about what she wants to tell and how, in my opinion, work against it. It’s tense, introspective, and at times feels like it’s wandering aimlessly.
This is the author’s first novel, and I think it could have been trimmed down to a short story, where it would have been flawless. What each chapter conveys is interesting—the penultimate one is wonderful, and the last one is a masterpiece.
It’s a good novel, but I’m afraid the horror didn’t captivate me as much as I had desperately hoped.
***
Dios sabe que, si existe alguien completamente obsesionado con los escritos de Bulkin ese soy yo. No en vano me busqué la manera de adquirir esta novela en edición limitada hasta España. Y no me arrepiento, es una buena novela y la portada es una pasada. No obstante, no es lo que yo me esperaba.
Es enormemente original, como ya es costumbre en la autora, pero aquí el aspecto de terror se me funde demasiado con lo demás. La critica social y el retratar un mundo muy alejado y muy similar al nuestro a partes iguales cuaja completamente la atmosfera de horror extraño que sus relatos tienen.
La longitud más alargada, así como una obvia decisión de lo que quieres y como quiere contar, creo que juegan en su contra. Es tenso, introspectivo y a veces se siente que va dando tumbos.
Es la primera novela de la autora y creo que podría haberlo recortado a relato y que hubiese quedado redondo. Lo que cuenta en cada capítulo es interesante, el penúltimo es maravilloso y el último una obra maestra.
Es una buena novela, pero el horror no me ha atrapado como tantísimo deseaba, me temo.
God knows that if there’s anyone completely obsessed with Bulkin’s writings, it’s me.In fact, I went out of my way to acquire this limited edition novel all the way to Spain. And I don’t regret it—it’s a good novel, and the cover is stunning. However, it wasn’t what I was expecting.
It’s enormously original, as is customary with the author, but here the horror aspect blends too much with everything else for my taste. The social critique and the portrayal of a world both vastly different and eerily similar to our own its interesting, but eats away the atmosphere of strange horror her stories are known for.
The extended length, along with an obvious decision about what she wants to tell and how, in my opinion, work against it. It’s tense, introspective, and at times feels like it’s wandering aimlessly.
This is the author’s first novel, and I think it could have been trimmed down to a short story, where it would have been flawless. What each chapter conveys is interesting—the penultimate one is wonderful, and the last one is a masterpiece.
It’s a good novel, but I’m afraid the horror didn’t captivate me as much as I had desperately hoped.
***
Dios sabe que, si existe alguien completamente obsesionado con los escritos de Bulkin ese soy yo. No en vano me busqué la manera de adquirir esta novela en edición limitada hasta España. Y no me arrepiento, es una buena novela y la portada es una pasada. No obstante, no es lo que yo me esperaba.
Es enormemente original, como ya es costumbre en la autora, pero aquí el aspecto de terror se me funde demasiado con lo demás. La critica social y el retratar un mundo muy alejado y muy similar al nuestro a partes iguales cuaja completamente la atmosfera de horror extraño que sus relatos tienen.
La longitud más alargada, así como una obvia decisión de lo que quieres y como quiere contar, creo que juegan en su contra. Es tenso, introspectivo y a veces se siente que va dando tumbos.
Es la primera novela de la autora y creo que podría haberlo recortado a relato y que hubiese quedado redondo. Lo que cuenta en cada capítulo es interesante, el penúltimo es maravilloso y el último una obra maestra.
Es una buena novela, pero el horror no me ha atrapado como tantísimo deseaba, me temo.
April 22, 2025
I can't figure out whether or not I think she did enough with the conceit.
What if there was a pandemic, but of The Ring? So all these contagions of unrestful spirits were out there possessing people for a week, and at the end you either died or passed it on, except if you just tried to spread it among your friends, that was going to turn out poorly for everyone due to cumulative spiritual wear and tear. So there'd be conspiracy theories and theologies aplenty, and para-religious organizations, and weaponizing and weird crimes of infliction, and a federal bureaucracy that a lot of people mistrust...in other words, what you'd expect, and in essence what happened in 2020. (I just showed a bit of Plandemic, the Musical, in class today--number featuring shoppers in a store learning to tear off their masks and taste freedom. Yikes.)
I guess that I wanted the central relationship between the sisters to resonate for me more, so I cared more that Selene wanted to find Hannah and try to save her before her week, she presumes, runs out. The theological part was interesting and original--I liked, if that's the word, or found compelling, the specific theological arguments being made about what these paracontagions might mean and where they came from, though the idea feels somewhat unresolved at the end. So maybe 3.75?
What if there was a pandemic, but of The Ring? So all these contagions of unrestful spirits were out there possessing people for a week, and at the end you either died or passed it on, except if you just tried to spread it among your friends, that was going to turn out poorly for everyone due to cumulative spiritual wear and tear. So there'd be conspiracy theories and theologies aplenty, and para-religious organizations, and weaponizing and weird crimes of infliction, and a federal bureaucracy that a lot of people mistrust...in other words, what you'd expect, and in essence what happened in 2020. (I just showed a bit of Plandemic, the Musical, in class today--number featuring shoppers in a store learning to tear off their masks and taste freedom. Yikes.)
I guess that I wanted the central relationship between the sisters to resonate for me more, so I cared more that Selene wanted to find Hannah and try to save her before her week, she presumes, runs out. The theological part was interesting and original--I liked, if that's the word, or found compelling, the specific theological arguments being made about what these paracontagions might mean and where they came from, though the idea feels somewhat unresolved at the end. So maybe 3.75?
November 20, 2024
The world in this novella is awash with dread and anxiety, tech and doubt. So the supernatural fits into the story so well that we feel it escaping our imagination, coming toward our own. Do not miss how full of lurking doom this is, while it tears at your emotions.
December 4, 2024
Inventive, sharp and shocking!
February 14, 2025
Nadia Bulkin does not miss. Creepy and emotional. I love her work.
November 17, 2025
The Ring, but make it Fincher. Wish it were way longer.
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