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from the Spells, Space & Screams: Collections & Anthologies in Fantasy, Science Fiction, & Horror group.
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Old Virginia by Laird Barron ★★★★½ “We need men who would bring the winter darkness, so they might keep her around bonfires.”
The mystery of Roanoke is a personal favorite. Laird Barron has combines it with MK Ultra and Mythos to write an entertaining late night fright.
The Crevasse by Dale Bailey & Nathan Ballingrud DNF Dog are killed - skip.
Bad Sushi by Cherie Priest ★★★★☆
Having tangled with a Deep One during WWII, Baku knew there was something other about the new fish being supplied for the sushi. The story has a good pace and an electric ending!
The Vicar of R’Lyeh by Marc Laidlaw ★★★☆☆ That’s one of the oddest stories I’ve ever read. I kept being wrong about where it was going. I didn’t understand how serious it all was, due to the juxtaposition of Jane Austen characters, until He Rose and Geoff got his job forever.
Obviously, I missed my goal by miles but I will keep on trucking in 2023!
You guys are awesome! I look forward to catching up.
That’s going to need a smashing ending.
Mr. Gaunt by John Langan ★★★★★ God that was excellent! I feel sick just thinking about it, lol! I rolled my eyes at first with the long-winded ‘buckle down kid, this is going to be a long story,’ - but I was hooked, it felt real. It still does! I want to scream, ‘Listen to that tight gut and don’t go to dinner!’ But I might have gone instead. Shudder!
Fair Exchange by Michael Marshall Smith ★★★☆☆ A burglar finds a magical item in the house of an odd family. As it sits in his pocket he feels its value and reframes his life around it. This was a simple idea stretched thin.
Pickman’s Other Model ★★★½☆ The other model was an up-and-coming actress with a birth defect and an odd family. There were hints of a dark and dastardly cult but the narrator never got close. This was a little piece of shadowy taffy strung out thin. It would have been better cut down to a sweet ten pages of unrepentant malevolence.
Cobwebby Eldritch Reading Reindeer wrote: "I've got it, Lovecraft and Mythos Rock, I am in."🎉🎉🎉
Well that’s good to hear since Foundation was not a classic I enjoyed. I haven’t watched either, even with the visual appeal they felt lacking.
That was a REALLY good year for movies.
I would call it an A- movie, you can look up any number of amazing clips on YouTube. The simple special effects hold up, the larger ones are, at best, nostalgic of X-Files. It’s on Freevee, I think I will try to watch it tomorrow.
I enjoyed The Prophecy, it had great actors - Virginia Madsen, Christopher Walken, Viggo Mortesen, Eric Stoltz, etc and it was so 90s. But I haven’t enjoyed one since, even with a buff Paul Bettany. But this Catholic Horror movie might be ok: https://youtu.be/LUnSo4jhZ1g
Song of the Cailleach Bheur by Jane Yolen ★★★☆☆ “Her breath both warm and chilling.
A single word from her icy lips,
A single kiss is killing.”
Pretty good poem.
Among the Leaves So Green by Tanith Lee ★★★★☆ I found the magic! Miserable daughters of ill repute are both granted different happy endings by the magic of the forest. It was a lovely story if a touch awkward.
Maybe twenty years ago with Sean Connery or Kelsey Grammer as Dracula. It could have been a hoot.
