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The Joy of Erudition
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"By Post" had a lot less of the overt supernatural to it than the first story, and felt more like a Stephen King-style horror story. It was less about the supernatural, and more about the deterioration of a group of friends as conflicts arose over contributions to a shared house and the anger and jealousy over changing romantic interests. One friend mind-controls another to get revenge on a third.
— Jul 24, 2025 08:30PM
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The Joy of Erudition
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"Distant Drum" is a very brief flash fiction about an angel getting corrupted by a ravenous demoness. The world setting is barely sketched out. It seems to be an average modern-day world, except there are also lots of earthbound angels and demons roaming around.
— Jul 26, 2025 03:54AM
The Joy of Erudition
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The editor stated in the introduction that there was no theme for this issue, but this is manifestly false. "Payday" is yet another revenge story, and like the last one, there isn't much to it. A bullied boy lures one of his tormentors to an abandoned government installation in the woods, to a fate you could see coming a mile away.
— Jul 26, 2025 03:51AM
The Joy of Erudition
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There wasn't much to the story "IOU". A woman uses a voodoo doll to get revenge on her violent husband, and police find out. That's it.
— Jul 26, 2025 03:39AM
The Joy of Erudition
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"The Shadows Beneath the Stone" was a good story with interesting supernatural elements, good characters and dialogue, about the Scottish heir of a Templar family that was massacred by the church, using sorcery to summon the ghosts of both his family and the church soldiers who died there, to have an undead rematch battle.
— Jul 26, 2025 12:51AM
The Joy of Erudition
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"A Housekeeper's Revenge" is a great post-apocalyptic story about a bereaved mother who makes it her mission to track down and kill the 13 elites who summoned monsters to kill everyone else in the world, in exchange for their own immortality.
— Jul 25, 2025 04:52AM
The Joy of Erudition
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I enjoyed "Up From Slavery" quite a bit once it really got going, but I'm not sure how much others may enjoy it if they haven't first read The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket by Poe and At the Mountains of Madness by Lovecraft. This story is set in the world established by those earlier books, and it does it well. Also, normally I don't like nonlinear narrative, but in this one it was fine.
— Jul 23, 2025 09:38PM
