- Hardcover: 323 pages
- Publisher: Subterranean Press; Sgd Spl edition (March 2007)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1596060794
- ISBN-13: 978-1596060791
- Product Dimensions: 22.9 x 15.7 x 3 cm
- Shipping Weight: 658 g
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,941,617 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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From Publishers Weekly
British author Crowther (The Longest Single Note) shows impressive versatility in this collection of 12 weird tales that evoke a variety of moods ranging from wonder to horror. "Sitting Pretty" (with Simon Conway) is an uplifting fantasy in which a chair fashioned from the cross of Christ shapes personal and historical destinies over the centuries. In "Three Plays a Quarter," an exercise in Twilight Zone–style chiaroscuro, a magic jukebox in a smalltown tavern replays dramatic moments from the lives of its patrons. In the book's best stories, horrors arise from the efforts of grief-stricken spouses to arrest the natural order and reverse the death of a loved one, notably "Stand By," in which a man labors to reclaim his wife from the waiting room of the afterlife and brings something unexpectedly nasty back with her. Though sometimes weakened by overexplanation of their supernatural elements, these stories are grounded in believably wrought emotions that make their strangeness both credible and affecting. (Mar.)
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Blochian!, Jan 24 2008
By RIJU GANGULY "perceptive reader" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Spaces Between the Lines (Hardcover)
Comparing an author with the GREAT Robert Bloch is dangerous business, yet I am compelled to use this atypical euphemism to describe this book because, somehow, the stories in this book invoke that very-very satisfying shudder once the story is concluded. Yes, the element of humor & irony is missing, also missing is the wryness associated with the bleakest of stories by the master. But,.....I hope you read this book (a superb edition with the suitably creepy cover)and judge for yourself if I am overboard or not.
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