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For several reasons, have bounced hard off the last few stories in this book. Will come back to it and finish it later.
Holzwege by D.P. Watt“She works away at the warp and weft as though at a harp; delicate wrinkled fingers darting in and out with different coloured fibres and silks,…”Not so much the book’s coda (although it is that, too), but more its catharsis. The silk-weaving image of the previous story and the three women weavers enthral three men – Hitler’s men, I wonder? – and it is almost as if we are being given these scenes dreamily from within a box like Orrin Grey’s box, ourselves the things or being...
Very good anthology. Some amazing stories, my favorite being the Peter Bell story.
There are some books that I can tell right from the start I don't want to end, books that I need to savour slowly, that I must force myself not to devour as quickly as possible. Delicate Toxins was one such tome for me, a collection of strange tales indeed, one that I look forward to revisiting again and again at several points in the future. This marvelous anthology inspired by the controversial and brilliant Hanns Heinz Ewers is a veritable treasury of wonder, encompassing the depraved, the de...
Another book that I'm in, and that I am very happy to have been a part of, if for no other reason than to have gotten a chance to be attached to such an attractive volume. Really a very impressive-looking book, full of solid weird and decadent stories inspired by Hanns Heinz Ewers. There are quite a lot of very good stories here, though a couple of particular standouts for me came from Richard Gavin and Daniel Mills.
Tributes to, or pastiches of an author can be hit and miss, especially a writer as uniquely outré as Hanns Heinz Ewers, but ‘Delicate Toxins’ achieves its goal perfectly. Ewers himself is present, for the most part, only as the spectre of his literary preoccupations rather than as a character, and those who have encountered his singular fiction will doubtless be well aware of the usual themes. Depravity, decadence and diabolism abound in every story, ranging from the subtle ('The Unrest At Aache...
