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Oculus Sinister
An anthology of ocular horror, featuring 20 "visionary" tales.
Table of Contents:
“Lucida” — Seán Padraic Birnie
“The Other Floor” — Brian Evenson
“Black-Eyed Susan” — Elana Gomel
“Brad Dourif’s Tears” — Douglas Ford
“Dead Bread Head” — Shannon Scott
“The Other One” — Timothy Granville
“The Obscurantist” — LC von Hessen
“Doorgrave To the Bittersea” — Mark Howard Jones
“The Eyedom” — Rhonda Eikamp
“The Visible Changes” — Charles Wilkinson
“Director’s Cut” — James Pate
“Contrition (1998)” — J.A.W. McCarthy
“Angelica’s Elegy” — Christopher K. Miller
“When This is Over” — Selene dePackh
“The Bells Line of Road” — M.R. Cosby
“Your Desolation Will Be Great” — Michael Kelly
“When You See It” — Rebecca J. Allred
“Vile Jellies” — John Langan
“E is For Eye” — Steve Rasnic Tem
“We Are Eternal” — Sam Richard
Table of Contents:
“Lucida” — Seán Padraic Birnie
“The Other Floor” — Brian Evenson
“Black-Eyed Susan” — Elana Gomel
“Brad Dourif’s Tears” — Douglas Ford
“Dead Bread Head” — Shannon Scott
“The Other One” — Timothy Granville
“The Obscurantist” — LC von Hessen
“Doorgrave To the Bittersea” — Mark Howard Jones
“The Eyedom” — Rhonda Eikamp
“The Visible Changes” — Charles Wilkinson
“Director’s Cut” — James Pate
“Contrition (1998)” — J.A.W. McCarthy
“Angelica’s Elegy” — Christopher K. Miller
“When This is Over” — Selene dePackh
“The Bells Line of Road” — M.R. Cosby
“Your Desolation Will Be Great” — Michael Kelly
“When You See It” — Rebecca J. Allred
“Vile Jellies” — John Langan
“E is For Eye” — Steve Rasnic Tem
“We Are Eternal” — Sam Richard
- GenresHorrorShort Stories
231 pages, Kindle Edition
First published October 21, 2020
About the author
C.M. Muller
65 books50 followersI live in St. Paul, Minnesota with my wife and two sons—and, of course, all those quaint and curious volumes of forgotten lore. I am related to the Norwegian writer Jonas Lie and draw much inspiration from that scrivener of old. My tales have appeared in Shadows & Tall Trees, Supernatural Tales, Vastarien, and a host of other venues. In addition to writing, I also edit and publish the annual journal Nightscript. My debut story collection, Hidden Folk, was released in 2018.
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March 2, 2021
“We reached the end. We reached something, I couldn’t see it. Or maybe I could, but it won’t stay in my brain; like I only know of it when I’m staring directly at it.”
…and I seem to feel the same as that final quotation about this whole book, with its wondrously pervading gestalt: its Eyedom upon the separate paths of our lives, our dislocated and poignant hopes and fears ….all now focusing together. A synergy, too, of horror with something else unseeable that transcends it, transmutes it, even enhances it. Starting with the optics of photographs and ending with them.
The detailed review of this book posted elsewhere under my name is too long or impractical to post here.
Above is its conclusion.
…and I seem to feel the same as that final quotation about this whole book, with its wondrously pervading gestalt: its Eyedom upon the separate paths of our lives, our dislocated and poignant hopes and fears ….all now focusing together. A synergy, too, of horror with something else unseeable that transcends it, transmutes it, even enhances it. Starting with the optics of photographs and ending with them.
The detailed review of this book posted elsewhere under my name is too long or impractical to post here.
Above is its conclusion.
August 24, 2023
Brilliant collection, sadly underappreciated due to a horribly inauspicious release early in the pandemic.
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