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Horror Story and Other Horror Stories
by
Robert Boyczuk (Goodreads Author)
Love and loss are the two prevailing themes in this 93,000-word short storycollection, featuring nineteen of the author's tales five of which areoriginal to this collection: ""When Fat Men Love Thin Women,"" ""The Death Artist,""""The Uncertainty Principle,"" ""Monster,"" and ""The Love Clinic."" The rest of thestories appeared in such publications as On Spec, TransVersion...more
Paperback, 310 pages
Published
February 23rd 2010
by Chizine Publications
(first published December 23rd 2008)
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i guess i am someone who reads short stories. it's what i do now. so, to celebrate the short, i am going to make this review a series of pithy one-sentence... summaries? commentaries? of/on each story. this is not me being lazy; it is actually quite difficult. especially with stories like these, which frequently have little twists in them that i want to avoid destroying. so some of these sentences might even be misleading, a little. who knows, i haven't written it yet. come with me on my tiny jo...more
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A friend bought this for me, I think because of the hours we devoted in our misspent youth to discussing horror films. Since having kids, I'm not as enthusiastic about horror as I once was (I seem to be more easily scared than I used to be), but I still enjoy the genre and the tingle of being frightened every once in a while. And I was pleased to find that Boyczuk isn't going for the easy scare with the stories in this collection. The stories touch on very basic and universal human issues (which...more
While the writing is good, I think this falls short as horror. It seems to be a postmodern trend to call a thing by which it is not. His use of the word "Horror" reminds me of the way Peter Carey uses the word "true" in The True History of the Kelly Gang. I can see it but it's disappointing. Yes, if you think about it enough, there is an element of the horrific in terms of what it says about our lives, but if you want actual horror, look elsewhere. Great cover though. I'd buy it all over again j...more
This is an odd collection of short stories. Not exactly what I call horror, this collection was definitely on the creepy side. Lots of sci-fi elements. I liked it.
It's better than three stars, but that would mean I really liked it, and I admired it more than I liked it. It's very subtle, off-kilter horror rather than in-your-face horror, which I appreciate, but a lot of it is just too abstruse for me. Also, the typesetting of the story titles couples with the lack of finality in the endings made it hard to tell when a new story was beginning. When it's good it's very very good. When it's bad it feels like it's trying too hard to be sophisticated.
Jun 06, 2009
Mike
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5 of 5 stars
Recommends it for:
horror lovers, short fiction fans
Shelves:
horror
Wonderful set of stories. A mix of classic horror stories (monsters, supernatural beings, serial killers), sci-fi (with a thriller/horror twist), and just some great thrillers.
As the back cover says, the primary themes of the stories are love and loss. Many of them go in directions you don't expect, and it keeps you guessing what the next story is going to bring. There are so many rehashes of the same old themes in modern literature, especially in the horror genre, that this book was wonderfull...more
As the back cover says, the primary themes of the stories are love and loss. Many of them go in directions you don't expect, and it keeps you guessing what the next story is going to bring. There are so many rehashes of the same old themes in modern literature, especially in the horror genre, that this book was wonderfull...more
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Robert Boyczuk is a supremely talented short-story writer.
–Cory Doctorow on BoingBoing
"Boyczuk's memorable debut offers 19 horror stories that accentuate the emotional-and often horrid - upheavals men and women suffer from while searching for love....Boyczuk's stories are uniformly excellent...."
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More about Robert Boyczuk...
Forthcoming, Nov, 2012
Horror Story and Other Horror Stories
Robert Boyczuk is a supremely talented short-story writer.
–Cory Doctorow on BoingBoing
"Boyczuk's memorable debut offers 19 horror stories that accentuate the emotional-and often horrid - upheavals men and women suffer from while searching for love....Boyczuk's stories are uniformly excellent...."
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