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Jan 17, 2011

Sparrow rated it:

Sometimes, I will wake up from a dream, and it will take a long time to shake off the emotion or realize it wasn't real. The second night I was in Tanzania, I suddenly woke up with a sobbing, shuddering gasp from a dream in which I was mourning the deaths of two of my favorite people. I remember lying in bed thinking that such an evil world, where those people didn't exist, couldn't be real, but I was still so inside of the dream that I couldn't escape it. It took a long time to come back to More...

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Jan 21, 2011

Anthony rated it:

Shipp's work is hard to define by just one genre. Most of the collection would probably fit the "dark fantasy" description, and almost all of them have some horror component. And at least two have a very "fairy tales but not of the Disney variety" feel to them.

I posted individual story reviews here. Overall, the collection is very strong. A few stories in particular stand out: the noirish "The Sun Never Sets in the Big City," the supernatural detective wit More...

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Oct 18, 2010

Dan rated it:

Once again, I wrestle with the dilemma of trying to review a collection of short stories. Should I talk about The Sun Never Rises in the Big City, a bizzaro detective story about a detective and the search for the killer of his rag? Or The Haunted House, about a ghost struggling with its identity and trying to help a girl? Or the title story that starts with a man chasing a homicidal jester through a forest for killing his warthog? Or the fairy tale-eque The Boy in the Cabinet?

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Sep 22, 2011

Thomas marked it as to-read

I just finished the first story, The Sun Never Rises in the Big City, and was blown away. An utterly brilliant piece of speculative fiction. This is the kind of tale that would be in Dangerous Visions, back in the day. Jeremy has a knack for inhabiting the mind of those corrupted by absolute power- judging by this, Dog, and Camp, other tales of his I've read- and this was the best one yet.

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May 12, 2011

Ian rated it:

I love reading anything from Jeremy C. Shipp's imagination. It's quite varied, and different from anything else I've read. I like to read it before falling asleep, hoping it will influence my dreams. If you haven't read anything by Shipp before I'd recommend Vacation or Sheep And Wolves over this to begin with, but if you like those you will appreciate Fungus Of The Heart as well.

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Dec 01, 2010

karen rated it:

i did it!! i read a whole book on the computer!! welcome me, twenty-first century!!!

i was not made for this modern world. and this book probably suffered for it. but it was totally my own damn fault, the deficiencies are entirely within me: 1) i seldom enjoy short stories, 2) i usually don't like the bizarro stuff, 3) i sure don't like reading on the computer.

i don't know how you people can do it. if i was a character on heroes, my ability would not be one of the m More...

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Jul 24, 2011

Michelle rated it:

I received “Fungus of the Heart” by Jeremy C. Shipp for free through Goodreads First Reads.

“Fungus of the Heart” by Jeremy C. Shipp is a collection of short stories that deal with desire in a very bizarre way. The characters in the stories you could probably find in a circus sideshow or perhaps in your darkest nightmare. Although the subject matter is indeed disturbing it is infused with a hint of humor. As twisted and serious as “The Haunted House” was, it happens to be my favo More...

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Apr 02, 2011

Lady Danielle "The Book Huntress" rated it:

Fungus of the Heart is a short story collection that is rather aptly named. The stories do probe into the mysteries of the human heart, although their subjects are not necessarily human. However, they show emotions that humans would be intensely familiar with. The fungus part of the title represents the weird, strange, perhaps even unpalatable edge hinted at in many of these stories. I like that Mr. Shipp was able to capture that dichotomy between being a monster--so alien on close examina More...

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Nov 02, 2010

Colleen rated it:

In this latest short story collection Jeremy Shipp explores what happens to relationships when the rules of society go out the window. In his surreal worlds, he explores the heartbreak, desire, fear, and loss that go into these relationships. Full of quirkiness, horror, humor and the just plain weird, Shipp fans should be pleased with FUNGUS OF THE HEART.

My favorite story of the collection Fungus of the Heart is an almost medieval yet otherworldly tale about Nightingale, a Sentin More...

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Nov 19, 2010

Jason rated it:

(Reprinted from the Chicago Center for Literature and Photography [cclapcenter.com]. I am the original author of this essay, as well as the owner of CCLaP; it is not being reprinted illegally.)

It's no secret that I'm a big fan of alt-horror author Jeremy Shipp (see my past reviews, for example, of his Vacation, Sheep & Wolves and Cursed), who seems every holiday season to deliver yet another new volume of his deeply unsettling tales; and this Christmas brings us a new story collection, More...

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Nov 26, 2010

Garrett rated it:

I'd like to start by making it clear that my three star rating does not come from any lack of quality in the work. I do not believe there are inferior stories in this book. There were a couple that felt derivative of each other, but none that were outright bad. The three star rating is to me a way of placing this work in the Shipp canon. In spite of some excellent stories here, I feel Fungus of the Heart lacks the bite that I expect from Jeremy Shipp. It has the same bold flights of fancy that a More...

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Oct 01, 2010

Debbi rated it:

If you read any book for Halloween, it should be this one. The stories in "Fungus of the Heart" will make you laugh, cry, and scare your pants off. They will stay with you long after you have finished reading them.The story 'Ticketyboo" I found really disturbing{I loved it}.Be prepared not to put it down.

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Oct 18, 2010

oriana marked it as to-read

Jeremy Shipp is my bookfriend and really nice. Although it sounds like I may be too much of a baby for this book, I told him I'd try it, and I will!

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Nov 08, 2010

Paul rated it:

Funny, bizarre, darkly creepy at times. A really imaginative collection with something for everyone.

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Dec 14, 2010

Robert rated it:

The stories in this collection are both wonderful and wierd, troubling and touching. I would expect nothing less from Jeremy C. Shipp!

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Sep 26, 2010

Sheri rated it:

Great book, official review to be published elsewhere.

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Jan 24, 2011

Bosley rated it:

Great book ... I intend to formally review at CoT ... sometime in the next month or so.

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Dec 22, 2010

Stewie rated it:

You can read my review over at HorrorTalk.com --> http://www.horrortalk.com/book-reviews/1...

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Oct 05, 2010

TS rated it:

Haunting. Brilliant. Beautiful.
My review is here: http://tstate.blogspot.com/2010/08/revie...

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Jul 14, 2011

Kelley added it

Can't wait to start!!!

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