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After the People Lights Have Gone Off

Stephen Graham Jones,

Joe R. Lansdale (Introduction)

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Nov 30, 2019 Nadine in NY Jones rated it really liked it

Shelves: fiction, fantasy-and-sci-fi, is-it-real-or-is-it-memorex, horror, short-stories, paranormal, aliens

So, monsters are real. Surprise.

For some reason I’d never considered this.

Or—I’m lying again: one monster’s real, anyway.

And I get the sense that’s just how he likes it.

I read one or two stories each day, and it’s best that way, in small doses. Because the stories are all pretty similar: regular guy, regular life, and than ... uh-oh ... bad and unsettling and vaguely paranormal shit happens to the guy who is already down on his luck. Jones tends to write with the same voice, so it always ...more

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Feb 18, 2022 Rachel rated it really liked it

So many good, unlikely horror stories here. These stories don’t make me afraid to turn off the lights but they do leave me with a creepy, unsettled feeling.

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