THE OTHER WORLD by John Stewart Wynne: You Will Read It Again

[Untreed]

Hope you're hungry for dark fiction:

This is a collection that deserves to be savoured. Several stories were even more engrossing when I read them for the second time, and I expect that they will grow even better my third time around.

The complete review is up at Long and Short Reviews and a book excerpt can be found at Untreed Reads.

The Other World: Stories by John Stewart Wynne by John Stewart Wynne:

Says Details Magazine, “In pages that tremble with beauty, Wynne gracefully reveals the darker side of human possibilities.”

National Book Award winner Paul Monette calls The Other World “a book to handle with asbestos gloves, but well worth the walk through fire.”

Paranoia, psychotic breaks, danger, fear, loneliness, yearning. This acclaimed short story collection, first published by City Lights, is peopled by sociopaths, circus performers, tattooed drifters, cross-dressing teenagers and God-fearing families. Its hallucinatory edge makes the everyday seem like another world.

Includes:

"The Other World" - A Christian Right family is too busy trying to protect their children from the "danger of homosexuality" to notice the havoc their own son is unleashing in the neighborhood.

"Lights of Broadway" - A prostitute is shaken to find that one of her clients is a violent homophobe.

"Halloween Card" - a Manhattan party of metrosexual hipsters is unexpectedly thrust into the heartland of Puritan America.

"Raphael" - A cross-dressing teenager spends a lonely Christmas at the Plaza Hotel, hoping to win the love of his chauffeur.

"Nameless Thing" - A love triangle explodes in jealousy and revenge at an El Paso circus.

"Vulture" - A drifter plots to murder the witness to the accidental killing of his girlfriend.