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I received Mike Griffin's latest novella in the mail tonight and TRAMPLED through it. He writes like Laird Barron mashed-up with John Langan. Weird, good, undeniably approachable and enjoyable.
One of the meatier novellas from Dunhams Manor Press (imprint of Dynatox Ministries) is Mike Griffin's Far From Streets. The back cover compares the books to Von Trier's Antichrist and Blackwood's The Willows, both of which are apt. The novella focuses on a married couple who inherit a large piece of land rather deep in the wilderness. The wife would rather sell it and move into an even nicer suburban home, but the husband sees the inheritance as an escape, a chance to build a cabin and cut hims...
Another home run from Michael Griffin. His story "Diamond Dust" was one of my favorites in THE GRIMSCRIBE'S PUPPETS, the Thomas Ligotti tribute anthology that won a Shirley Jackson Award last year. In FAR FROM STREETS, Griffin shows the same insight into troubled personal relationships and high strangeness, but switches the industrial setting of "Diamond Dust" for the primal woods of his native Pacific Northwest.As FAR FROM STREETS progresses, the unexplained looms larger and larger. The narrati...
Read by ACRL Member of the Week John Glover. Learn more about John on the ACRL Insider blog.
Griffin's strengths are having the surreal and strange grounded in real human emotions and experiences and explaining heady philosophical ideas in language that manages to be both elegant and understandable (I, personally, do not have a lot of patience for stuff that goes over my head and, I admit, most things go over my head). Both of those traits are used to great effect in Far From Streets, but I have to admit this one didn't sing to me the way Griffin's work usually does.It seems like there'...
“We can’t spend our lives in between.” Married couple Dane and Carolyn take the road less travelled, losing track of life and, with Griffin’s measured, precise presentation, the sway of Time, splitting the seams that connect modern convenience with personal happiness and even sanity. Dane’s quest for a simpler life wrought in the bones and atavistic at heart disintegrates for both of them into a harrowing nightmare of decay and malaise, all within a house in the woods, and the surrounding myster...
