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Ah, finally! A "GAME-CHANGING anthology" about evil and spooky houses. Right down my alley. Cant wait. Review will follow in due course.
Nice collection of haunted house stories. This leans more to the weird, quiet side of horror, which suits me well. Nothing in here is particularly gory and the unsettling elements feed themselves rather by existential explications than by ouright horror and/or terror. Highlighs were the ones from Richard Gavin and Colin Insole (as I expected) but certainly not the only recommendable stories.
It would seem that everybody (still) likes a haunted house. We have probably all been to a place that we have been told is haunted, perhaps felt uneasy at certain locations or experienced an entirely different interpretation of the term at a funfair. Perhaps that nostalgia is why this book sold out within about two weeks. The publisher blurb seems somewhat contradictory, wanting to reclaim the tale from the past….. and yet be “primaeval, unquantifiable; the stuff of folk-tales, family curses an
An absolutely beautiful looking book. I really love the style of Egaeus Press with their hardbound anthologies of weird fiction containing Victorian illustrations throughout. My favorite stories in this collection include:The Shepherd's House by Colin InsoleThe Devil Will Be at the Door by David SurfaceMiasmata by Lynda E. Ruckerand, especially, At Lothesley, Montgomeryshire 1910 by James Doig
A physically imposing collection of weird/horror stories focusing on menacing buildings. As is usual with collections, the material is a bit uneven and thematically oscillating - there are a lot of different takes on the haunted house motif. However, (as other reviewers have noted) most of the stories feel that they're using the house just as background decor - with slight tweaking they could very well be inserted in a collection with a different theme. My main issue is that I expected to see ho...
An unswervable embarrassment of riches, this book, and powerful and shocking enough in places to have spurred no doubt your own abode’s ghost to finally come out and literally kick your literary butt, if not your real one.The detailed review of this book posted elsewhere under my name is too long to post here.Above is its conclusion.
