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a hot mess
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Ian Tregillis's Something More Than Night is a Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler inspired murder mystery set in Thomas Aquinas’s vision of Heaven. It’s a noir detective story starring fallen angels, the heavenly choir, nightclub stigmatics, a priest with a dirty secret, a femme fatale, and the Voice of God.
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The best stories pull readers in and keep them turning the pages, eager to discover more—to find the answer to the question: "And then what happened?" The true hallmark of great literature is great imagination, and as Neil Gaiman and Al Sarrantonio prove with this outstanding collection, when it comes to great fiction, all genres are equal.
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Genius writing, great book
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Finally - Magic / Fantasy Novel for adults.
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The Ploughmen
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At the center of this searing fever-dream of a novel are two men - a killer awaiting trial and a troubled young deputy - sitting across fromeach other in the dark, talking through the bars of a county jail cell: JohnGload, so brutally adept at his craft that only now, at the age of 77, has he faced the prospect of long-term incarceration; and Valentine Millimaki, low man in the Copper County sheriff's department, who draws the overnight shift after Gload's arrest.
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Perceptive Narration
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Vampires in the Lemon Grove
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In the collection's marvelous title story, two aging vampires in a sun-drenched Italian lemon grove find their hundred-year marriage tested when one of them develops a fear of flying. In "The Seagull Army Descends on Strong Beach, 1979", a dejected teenager discovers that the universe is communicating with him through talismanic objects left in a seagull's nest. "Proving Up" and "The Graveless Doll of Eric Mutis" find Russell veering into more sinister territory.
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Haunting, harrowing, and downright horrifying, this classic collection from the modern master of the fantastic features: "The Small Assassin": a fine, healthy baby boy was the new mother's dream come true - or her nightmare.... "The Emissary": the faithful dog was the sick boy's only connection with the world outside - and beyond.... "The Wonderful Death of Dudley Stone": a most remarkable case of murder - the deceased was delighted! And more!
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The October Country
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- Adrienne
- 09-23-18
Frustrating and unsatisfying
While many of the stories were incredibly tense, creepy, terrifying, and/or full of dread, it ultimately did not matter because all of them had little or no ending. I don't have a problem with leaving some things to the imagination, but this was not the case here.
Many of the stories would build and build until you think something utterly amazing or disturbing is about to happen, then they would just abruptly end. Not end as in vaguely resolve and you come up with your own full resolution, but end as if it cut off at the end of chapter somewhere in the middle of the story. It was very frustrating and an satisfying. Like really getting into a great television show only to have it be cancelled before it was finished.
The only reason I gave it 2 stars is that the stories started off great, but then they fizzle out into nothing. I wish I hadn't wasted a credit on this.
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- C. Bland
- 01-03-15
Laird Barron is the future of horror
What did you love best about Occultation and Other Stories?
Each of Barron's stories is a wonderful microcosm populated by believable, complex characters with rich back-stories. The horror and suspense work so well because we actually care about the people, we feel that they have lives, and we watch with them in fascination and horror as their world slowly and inexorably unravels; revealing the dark secret at the heart of things..
Who was your favorite character and why?
It's hard to pick just one, but I really liked the protagonist of "The Lagerstatte". In a story that's essentially about grief, it's all too easy to write a character that comes off as self-pitying or whiny, so I was pleasantly surprised that despite the story's overall bleak tone, the main character (who is a grieving widow) comes off as both strong and quite funny in places. It is even more surprising when you consider Barron's penchant for writing stories populated by "Manley Men" that he writes sympathetic and believable female characters, and it really illustrates his versatility as a writer.
What does David Drummond bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book?
Mr. Drummond does an excellent job bringing the stories to life, he conveys the terror, confusion, anger, helplessness, and exasperation of the characters without becoming cartoonish or melodramatic. I did feel that some of the voices he does in "The Broadswords" were a little over the top, but overall I loved his narration and I hope he continues to narrate Barron's works.
Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?
Absolutely. In fact, I wanted to listen to the whole book again the moment it ended, something that I've not experienced in years.
Any additional comments?
If you've not heard of Barron, this collection is an excellent introduction to his brand of terror. That is, stories that manage to be both literary and visceral, stories that celebrates many of the horror genre's tropes and conventions while at the some time subverting them. There's really no one out there writing works like Barron and if you love horror (especially horror of the cosmic, psychological, and somewhat pessimistic variety) then you owe it to yourself to buy this collection ASAP!
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- kristabela
- 04-23-15
Wow!
I'll be thinking about these stories for a long time to come. Laird Barron makes me feel like I'm being watched.
Creepily, expertly read. And the writing! Don't get me started...
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- Clare
- 10-02-16
Dark and Weird tales to writhe in your skull.
Very eerie Pacific Northwest feel is captured throughout, with average, everyday characters gradually broken in turn by something otherworldly or unknown.
Unsettling and Adult, but even funny at times, I quite enjoyed it and will seek out his other works ASAP.
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- Humble Plant Father
- 08-28-19
Stories are hit (barely) or miss (mostly)
The performance is distracting and somewhat annoying. Too many characters sound way too exasperated and whiny. Many of the stories just go on and on without any real feeling of progression or climax. Maybe that’s the performance, but either way it’s not great.
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- James Smith
- 08-07-17
too slow paced and not creepy at all.
The reading of the book was pretty decent, just struggled through the slow pace. sorry
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- Gerald Andreasen
- 05-10-16
A Field Guide to the Dwellers in the Dark
If you could sum up Occultation and Other Stories in three words, what would they be?
The Shadows Beckon
What other book might you compare Occultation and Other Stories to and why?
Murgunstrumm and Others By Hugh B. Cave. also The Book of Cthulhu 1 and 2.
There is Historical Lore here that begs one to continue to turn the page. Assortment of stories with a common theme that stays focused on the main antagonist, a Black Book a tour guide to roads, places, and peoples who are of the dark and love you, mostly because you are delicious to them. They also appreciate how well they can fit inside your skin, then your life impersonating, and then frightening their next selected course on the menu. What makes his work so original is his villans are reluctant then accepting, and finally eager to fulfill their compact with the great dark.
What about David Drummond’s performance did you like?
Captivating sincerity and memorable characters are even more deeply brought to life by someone with the ability to create growing passion and connections thru even the most subtle of nuances. Humorous places made me laugh out loud, the creepiness made me want to go looking for these places to experience the haunting for myself. I am fascinated by the otherness of the World and do not fear the nature of darker places. David Drummond reminded me of how those characters are so at home in the dark and are just being themselves and evoking answers to why people are in a most primal sense afraid of the dark.
Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?
The end of the last story where the mans fate is sealed by his curiosity. Reminded me of Seven. How even with all the "reality" we see around ourselves there are places that eventually, if we ignore the warnings from inside, we will be called towards and participate in the fulfillment of others well thought out designs.
Any additional comments?
I have just recently discovered this Author. Intrigued by him with the story "The Men from Porlock" wherein we are introduced to Boris Kasimov. This was from a Themed compilation called The Book of Cthulhu, tales of Lovecraft themes by modern writers. After that story, its amazing ability to take a children nursery tale and revise it with enhancements that seem a missed train of logical and progressive thought. Expanding even more the adult truth of why Grimm's Fairy tales were sinister warnings and not innocent literature. I knew this is the work of a Master of the Art with a Shamans skill of crafting depth, belief and historical curiosity. What is "real" about this work is there are droves of people going missing in the forest, and even today the leaders of the Native American tribes are hesitant to speak of the skin-walker. There are totems and rituals practiced even today to prevent such beings from entering a domicile on the reservations. Laird Barron has the remarkable gift of taking a fragment of lore and expounding upon it so uniquely that he like Howard Phillips Lovecraft will be given the honored gratis of people believing the guide actually exists and he is using fiction to warn us of the very real dangers lurking everywhere in all the shadows especially in the forests among the trees. I am devouring everything I can get my hands on by this author. I love his work and look forward to what other characters he can adopt into his Legendary Universe. Like Neil Gaiman he has created a startling Mythos that is in its infancy, I am eager to see how more populated his Worlds will become and who is next called to dine at the table by the Dark Abyss.
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- Kal S.
- 08-16-21
Buy the book instead.
I really like this book, I enjoyed the horror and the long winding buildup to it. A few stories didn't quite do it for me, but the ones that did sent a shudder down my spine, and encouraged me to keep the lights on. That said, I didn't enjoy the voice performance at all. All of the women and a few of the LGBT characters felt fake, most of that felt like it came down to the voices used. It really did feel to me like some of these character voices were almost lampooning. The straight men's voices were better but there really wasn't anything standout to improve the book.
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- Andrew Milhollin
- 11-14-18
good stories, bad narrator
Laird Barron is great, but they do a disservice to his work by having an insufferably monotonous narrator read it. Should have used the narrator from the Imago Sequence!
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- Kathleen Kinard
- 03-05-21
Meh, not for me.
I think my beef is that the stories were over by the time I really got interested. Everything was... fine? but just fine.
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