THERE IS A FUNGUS CREEPING THROUGH “BARRON’S WOOD”
A great write-up on John Langan’s “Ymir” by Mick Albright.
Originally posted on Keep Calm & Write Something:
Today’s post is inspired by the work of writer Laird Barron, and a collection of other writers already spawning their own fungal spores from the loam of “Barron’s Wood”.
The inspiration began with the reading of my first Barron story, “Blackwood’s Baby”. It has continued through my reading of five additional stories by Laird, who is fast becoming the reason I was waiting for to renew my respect for weird fiction.
Which brings me to “Ymir” by writer John Langan, another writer I have enjoyed (Ref. link below to Langan’s collection The Wide Carnivorous Sky.)
I read “Ymir” last night in editor Ellen Datlow’s anthology The Year’s Best Horror, Volume 7. I selected it because I like Langan, and because I am slowly working my way through the Datlow volume as part of my writing “apprenticeship”. See:
https://tellmeastorymick.wordpress.com/2015/09/30/you-are-what-you-imbibe/.
Ymir was conceived by the Norse god jötnar and an elemental poison, a…
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