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The Spindly Man, a solid four stars. I like that it's a bit of a nested story. It's a story about the book club and the professor's guilt after a car accident, but it's also a discussion of Stephen King's short story The Man in the black suit, while also continuing the story of the man in the black suit. It's a nice, thrilling hodgepodge of the psychological, the supernatural, and the discursive.

This is Love, 5 Stars. Loved it! What a disturbing story. About the fears of the stuff that can happen, especially to your lover. The bad things you imagine and how they get overshadowed by the worse things the other person has committed. What that does for you love for that person. At first read, I thought this was like some sort of horrible eternal purgatory loop. But on second read, I think Jonathan is a ghost.

Welcome to the Reptile House: 5 Stars! Bears all the hallmarks of Stephen Graham Jones's writing, while also being short, sweet, and nasty, and has a couple of twists and turns so that the story ends up in a whole other way other place I'd have expected! I'd have thought the creepy tattoo practice in the funeral home would be the main point of the story, but that's only the instigating part!

Brushdogs. Three stars. Very creepy and foreboding. But I'm not sure I'm getting it. Is Danny being impetsonated by a skinwalker or something? Very creepy, just not very clear.