Nasty and Brutish Shorts: Reading & Writing Short Horror Fiction

                                                                                                      We're back with Part II, and even more meaty stories to sink our teeth and tentacles into. I'm going to throw a blanket spoiler warning over all of these. Even when I spoil things, I try not to give away every little secret these tales have to offer, but  discussing what's good (and sometimes not so good) about these stories requires getting under the hood. "The Note" by Paul Tremblay Synopsis : A writer's life is shattered after his wife stops to read a note on the door of an abandoned house. Thoughts : SPOILERS FOR JACK KETCHUM'S "THE BOX" WHICH IDEALLY YOU'D HAVE ALREADY READ BY...

                                                                                                      That is not dead which can eternal lie, and that's as true for blogs as anything else. We're back, baby! We've touched on Lovecraftian stories here and there on this blog, but haven't gone full HPL yet. Well, this is a good time for it: I went to Necronomicon in Providence this month, and Tachyon just released this Datlow-edited reprint anthology. Like many of Datlow's anthologies, it takes an expansive and progressive view of its subject matter; in the foreword, Datlow writes that "most of the stories collected here are infused with cosmic dread rather than the usual, over trappings of ...