Book Review: The Complete Stories of Flannery O’Connor When I decided to read Flannery O’Connor’s short stories, I went in cold, as I often do when exploring unpopular culture. On the one hand I was eager to read O’Connor, because…
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Cold Hand in Mine is a collection of eight strange stories (as the author liked to describe them) by Robert Aickman (1914-1981), first published in 1975. It is the fourth collection reviewed here, and in many ways, the best. The…
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…
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.…