- Hardcover: 300 pages
- Publisher: Subterranean (June 1996)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 096498900X
- ISBN-13: 978-0964989009
- Product Dimensions: 23.1 x 16 x 3.6 cm
- Shipping Weight: 680 g
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Norman Partridge's first story collection, Mr. Fox and Other Feral Tales, won a Bram Stoker Award, and his first novel, Slippin' Into Darkness, garnered the highest praise from horror critics; so it's no surprise that this second collection is a knockout. Here, in dusty Southwestern settings with tawdry glimmers of pop culture, you'll find carnival roustabouts, an Elvis impersonator, a demon gunslinger, a gorilla gunslinger, monstrous automobiles, a heavyweight champ who's past his prime--all of them flirting with death, if not damnation, too. The fragmented narratives are at times a little befuddling, but the writing is lean and evocative, like Dennis Etchison or Jim Thompson. As Joe R. Lansdale writes in the introduction, "Bad Intentions will be one of the most important short story collections of the nineties." And this first edition of only 526 copies, with a striking cover painting by Ryan Dreimiller, will most likely be a collector's item.
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Dark suspense at best, Dec 28 2005
By R. Benardes "www.maquinariodanoite.blogspot.com" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Bad Intentions (Hardcover)
The invisibility of Norman Partridge among fans of horror and dark fiction is difficult to understand.He is the most undervaluated writer of the 90's and the most original voice since Thomas Ligotti.
Partridge's fiction is often compared to that of Joe Lansdale, they share a love of drive-in movies, old west mythology and similar stuff, but when comes to approach and style they are poles apart and IMHO his short stories are superior to that of Lansdale.
Partridge's prose is richly textured and the facility with wich he blends genres and handle different styles borders on the scary.
The quality of Partridge's short fiction is remarkable high and even his lesser pieces are far superior to the majority of dark fiction being published today.
BAD INTENTIONS is his best collection.
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