Status Updates From Dreamsongs, Volume I

Reading a bunch of these for book club, so I'll be rating them individually as I make my way through them and decide later if I finish the anthology as a whole!

Sandkings: I can see why this is so popular amongst GRRM fans and just a wider horror community, it’s a truly twisted tale with a lot of familiarity of the themes and iconography, the Asian shopkeeper who sells a mysterious creature to the American is very reminiscent of gremlins and the little shop of horrors element found later makes this easy to picture and a fun read.

Remembering melody: very creepy story lots of setup for a decent ending but feel like it’s lacking a conclusion compared to something like meathouse man.

Meathouse man: George writes about this one specifically in his little segment before these stories and describes it as his venting from a bad relationship experience and boy was he mad, it’s disgusting to put it simply and all the better for it, it’s a truly disgusting tale of a man who desperately wants love but can’t accept rejection and it only gets worse from there really.

The lost lands: it’s not often you see a monkey paw type of story from the perspective of the monkey paw itself but this was a really fun little fairy tale story, I loved the magic at work here and the world it builds of this desolate all consuming land. Very fun little story hope there’s more like these.