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With Shadows Edge (Gray Friar Press), dark fiction writer Simon Strantzas has put together an evocative and beautiful anthology of subtle Horror that follows a texture championed and furthered by Strantzas throughout his acclaimed career as an author. Indeed, the tales reflect the man at the selector switch, as each of the 16 assembled pieces (including a “short story as prologue” by Strantzas himself) represent works of patient, often quiet weirdness and terror that get under ones skin rather t...
Simon Strantzas is a name that weird horror fans should be familiar with. To date he has had three excellent collections published: Beneath the Surface, Cold to the Touch, and Nightingale Songs. Shadows Edge marks Strantzas's first foray into the realm of anthology editing. According to the afterword, the idea for this book has long been fermenting in the dark depths of the Canadian author's mind. This month marks the end of the long wait, and Strantzas's dream project will be shipping within a
A superb collection of gauzy Weird/Horror tales from a dream list of brilliant authors. Subtle and haunting, these stories effectively evoke that confused feeling of waking from a dream and being momentarily unsure what is real, the dream or the waking. I liked every story in the book, but must single a few out. As expected, the stories from editor Simon Strantzas and Richard Gavin are two of my favorites, along with stories by D.P. Watt, Gary McMahon, Livia Llewellyn, and especially John Langan...
Fun read. The writers whom I knew instantly, their stories were worthwhile, but the true gems here (In my opinion) were the stories from writers I haven't really followed before. Daniel Mills turned in a wonder, Ian Rogers story worked the best for me out of all the stories collected, and Steve Rasnic Tem, who I knew of before reading this, wrote a truly poignant story. One of the scariest here might be Livia Llewellyn's Stabilimentum. The stories mentioned here were great, but honestly there ar...
A solid collection of werid fiction, unified by the common theme of liminal places, where the boundary between reality and otherness wears thin. Narrative style ranges from the stoutly traditional (Peter Bell) to the moderately experimental (Lisa L. Hannett––whose contribution is arrestingly written but otherwise incomprehensible). Many of the stories sacrifice lucidity of plot in favour of the evocation of mood, which is fine with me, but may annoy those who prefer a more straightforward narrat...
