Status Updates From The Dusk

The Silver Field was really excellent. Super excited now for the rest of Ostermeir's stories I have in my collection! It's.truly scary and creepy and gross. And it reminds me of that fantastic hedges short story from my Weird omnibus

The Voices in the Grove was really perfect. A quiet story about a traveller in a strange land and the peculiar grove he finds there. Whose explanation for the events can be trusted?

The Nevermoon is a short fable of a vengeful moon that grants its worshippers the means to fulfill their terrible dreams. Short and evil.

Seven ghosts was nothing to write home about

I couldn't help but read the snow in a David Attenborough voice. A chilling (ha) ghost story

Home Before Dark was close to perfect. Fantastically creepy

Another invisible collection is a recited exhibition in the basement of an ironic light house. This was fab and very Dorian Gray

Well Mr spongy fingers was horrifying

After the LS took me a long time to read we have two tight little narratives in quick succession. The Servant is a depressing little end of the world narrative where the breadwinner throws in the towel (is there a deeper meaning intended with this?) And You Should Never Go back, which is also depressing but an easy read. Feels like a Steven king short story.

Ok, first story of the collection that I've disliked. The Living Scaffold. It's weird in every sense but teters the fine line between myopic and problematic. The choking stuff is odd but in theme with the general weirdness. It's the characterizations I had a bit of a problem with. I'm assuming that this story just went over my head. It was also too long and a little dull.

The Circus of Mr Chivers felt very Ligotti to make. The parade of nightmares, the fevered dreams of rot. Excellent stuff.

The Southern Strain. I'll have to think more about it. What.it means, is it a story of revenge?

Not sure what happened in the Moon moths of Saturn but it was excellent.

She Sells Sunsets was a nice piece, lending a visible embodiment to the gradual debilitation of MS.. but does it work in this anthology? Not sure. It's a great story, well crafted and written, but it doesn't feel fantastical..

Holy crap this is a good anthology.