Status Updates From The Weird: A Compendium of ...

"The Long Sheet" is Genuinely disquieting.

Reading "The Dunwich Horror" for the first time.

"The Hell Screen" - Truly unsettling. Very scary story.

So far "The Spider," along with "The Willows," is the second five-star story in this volume. And I've just started!

Starting this book on Jan. 1st. This massive anthology should see through a good portion of the year.

"There was already just about as much horror in me that I could hold." A. Blackwood. The Willows.

IN THE PENAL COLONY Franz Kafka

Ok. So this one is disgustingly racist. I think I’ll have to pass on this story. Man, I had been enjoying this anthology so much up until this, too.

“The mixture of Italians, Jews and a few Negroes, mostly bareheaded, unkempt and generally unhygienic in appearance, struck me as merely revolting. They were all humans, and I, too, was human. Some way I did not like the idea.”

Gross.

Angels in Love by Kathe Koja 3.5 / 5
The Ice Man by Haruki Murakami 4 / 5
Replacements by Lisa Tuttle 3 / 5
The Diane Arbus Suicide Portfolio by Marc Laidlaw 3 / 5
The Country Doctor by Steven Utley 5 / 5

The way I'll review this anthology is by reading whatever story I feel like then updating the post/review with my rating and thoughts.

UNSEEN – UNFEARED Francis Stevens

Yoshihide paints an evil hellscape that leads to the death of his daughter

THE HELL SCREEN Ryūnosuke Akutagawa TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH BY MORINAKA AKIRA

Starting this book on Jan. 1st. This massive anthology should see through a good portion of the year.