The Wine-Dark Sea is the third collection of Robert Aikman stories I’ve reviewed here recently, and the weakest by far. The best of Aikman’s “strange stories,” as he called them, begin with a completely ordinary situation, and fairly quickly ramp…
Author: Brad Shorr
I should have known this volume of Ambrose Bierce’s ghost and horror stories would be a clunker when E. F. Bleiler, in his introduction, almost apologized for the up-and-down quality of the stories — as well as for Bierce’s famously…
Today I was listening to a recent Bishop Barron Word on Fire podcast. He was talking about St. Thomas Aquinas, one of his favorite topics. He was explaining Thomas’s argument that God created everything out of love; that creation was…
Dark Entries is another collection of previously published “strange stories” by Robert Aickman (1914-1981), first published in 2014. The contents: The School Friend. The old friendship of two women is severely tested when one of them sinks into a bizarre…
The King in Yellow is a collection of nine short stories and several poems written by William W. Chambers in 1895. It was highly regarded by H. P. Lovecraft and is something of a cult classic in the horror genre.…