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The Last Days of Kali Yuga
by
Paul Haines (Goodreads Author)
Published
April 2011
by Brimstone Press
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Paul Haines is an outstanding short story writer, a truly unique voice. His stories often feature a character called Paul Haines and it's never really possible to know where the author ends and the character begins. And within these stories, Haines explores every dark, dirty, nasty facet of the human condition.
This book is the definitive Haines collection. All the uniquely Hainesesque "backpacker horror" stories are here, along with a broad range of other subjects, from the fantastical to the ho...more
This book is the definitive Haines collection. All the uniquely Hainesesque "backpacker horror" stories are here, along with a broad range of other subjects, from the fantastical to the ho...more
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The Last Days of Kali Yugaby Paul Haines is a powerful short story collection. I first came across Mr Haines' work a couple of years ago when I started listening to the (now sadly defunct) Terra Incognita Speculative Fiction podcast. I've told the story of how that first story impacted me on my website, but I've been keen to read more of his work ever since.
Along the speculative fiction spectrum, horror is probably my least visited corner of the continuum. However, The Last Days of Kali Yuga is...more
Along the speculative fiction spectrum, horror is probably my least visited corner of the continuum. However, The Last Days of Kali Yuga is...more
Katharine is a judge for the Aurealis Awards. This review is the personal opinion of Katharine herself, and does not necessarily reflect the opinion of any judging panel, the judging coordinator or the Aurealis Awards management team.
To be safe, I won't be recording my review here until after the AA are over.
Very well written, cohesive and always to a high level of skill throughout the collection. There was one typo that I found, and the cover was decent enough.
However, I didn’t read one or tw...more
Very well written, cohesive and always to a high level of skill throughout the collection. There was one typo that I found, and the cover was decent enough.
However, I didn’t read one or tw...more
Skin-crawlingly good horror. Paul Haines's monsters are those within the human psyche. His ability to gently tease out the ugliest, most evil thoughts and deeds of mundane humanity is genius, tinged as it is with vulnerability and the sheer believability of our worst selves. "Wives" is rightly viewed as a work of art, with the revelations unfolding towards the end only partially guessed at.
This collection, complete with an author's word after each story, won't be for everyone. It's uncomfortable...more
This collection, complete with an author's word after each story, won't be for everyone. It's uncomfortable...more
A disturbing, dark, funny and poignant collection of Haines' unique brand of horror fiction, including one new story, "The Past is a Bridge Best Left Burnt", which is just stunning. I love this collection so much. Highly, highly recommended.
Some of these stories are just amazing. They are so good that they make 4-5 of these seem very pedestrian.
Nov 27, 2012
Heidi Ward
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Read this awhile back and really liked it -- picked it up again to do a belated review and came to the conclusion that I love it. This is Paul Haines's last collection -- he died of cancer this past March. Such a shame to lose an author that had so much talent, and so much skill at writing gut-punching horror for adults. I'm now reading another, earlier collection, Doorways for the Dispossessed. I'll review them both in detail at http://battyward.blogspot.com/
Review to follow at Hellnotes sometime soon ...
I completely lack the ability to be objective about this book. Simply brilliant.
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Paul Haines was raised in the 1970s in the wrong part of Auckland, New Zealand and moved to Australia in the 1990s. Having vowed to never call it home, he now lives in Melbourne with his wife and daughter.
His first two collections were shortlisted for Australian speculative fiction awards, and one of them managed to nab the New Zealand award for Best Collection and the other the Australian Ditmar...more
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His first two collections were shortlisted for Australian speculative fiction awards, and one of them managed to nab the New Zealand award for Best Collection and the other the Australian Ditmar...more
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