Priya Sharma's Blog, page 33
February 7, 2017
The beautiful and delicate work of Patrick Cabral
Patrick Cabral on Instagram: “Blessed are the weird and misfits ; the artists , writers and music makers; the dreamers and imagineers; for they let us see the world differently”
Patrick is a freelance artist based in Manila, Philippines.
Patrick’s links:
http://www.patrickcabral.com/daily-type
https://www.instagram.com/darkgravity/
February 4, 2017
Review of Black Feathers Edited by Ellen Datlow
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Horror stories are oftentimes crime stories exaggerated to grotesque proportions, with the supernatural and uncanny occasionally standing in for the unsolvable; as a genre, it’s a literary detour past thriller and a dive over the boundary into terror. Black Feathers is no different, with a collection of tales of murder and abductions and madness—with birds, helpful or sinister or often both, as its central theme—from authors as renowned for their non-horror writings as Joyce Carol Oates and Pat Cadigan. It is however a lesser-known author who has written what is easily my favorite story from the collection. In “The Crow Palace,” Priya Sharma writes a cold-blooded tale of family and terrible secret bargains…Other short story standouts for me included Seanan McGuire’s “The Mathematical Inevitability of Corvids,” about a young girl who counts birds as a way of preserving her fragile days, and Jeffrey Ford’s “The Murmurations of Vienna Von Drome”, one of the few stories set in a fantastic world. Relatable enough to crime fans, this latter story follows a police investigator on the trail of a serial killer. I also enjoyed the fresh narrative voice of the teenaged first-person narrator in Stephen Graham Jones’s “Pigeon from Hell.” Doreen Sheridan for Criminal Element (Full Review)
January 30, 2017
Storyville: 10 Highly Anticipated Books for 2017
In Storyville, his regular column for Litreactor, Richard Thomas features his ten highly anticipated books for 2017.
I’ve already bought number one on his list (“Behind Her Eyes” by Sarah Pinborough) and am delighted that “Black Feathers” is on there too-
Do I really have to sell you on anything edited by Ellen Datlow? With work by Stephen Graham Jones, Priya Sharma, Livia Llewellyn, Usman T. Malik, Joyce Carol Oates, Paul Tremblay, and Seanan McGuire this is sure to be a big hit.
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Out 7th Feb in the USA and 7th March in the UK
Review:
“Black Feathers” is another triumph for this talented editor and highly recommended for its diverse and skilled contributors. It will definitely cause you to think twice the next time you see a flock of birds soaring through the sky or hear their songs outside your window. Alan Cranis for Bookgasm. (Full review)
