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Save for one story, all of the stories in this collection are well-written haunting works of weirdness.
An excellent collection of weird tales. Both creepy and largely pastoral, this odd mixture kept in place an atmosphere and tone worthy of its genre.
A well-curated journal. Some of the best, most affecting short stories I've read.
I loved these stories and the critical analysis piece in the middle was a fantastic addition. I am very excited that I found Undertow Publications because they put out consistently wonderful stuff.
Slim volume with short stories which pack a punch. One essay. This is the first time I have read from this series/ journal, and I wasn't quite sure what to expect. I didn't want to put it down.Some more psychological than supernatural. The Claire Massey piece feels like a sequel to another haunting story by a different author to me, but it clearly is not. It captures the same feeling, which I like.
Shadows and Tall Trees have some of the best horror writers around. This is rich, subtle, and classic horror. These stories aren't about shock; they're about the kind of scare that sneaks up on you when you least expect it, or the kind of dread that grows in the mind after reading. Atmospheric, but modern. Chilling and original. Pick up an issue today.
This anthology is from a few years ago but despite its tiny size still outshines many “Year’s Best” offerings.
Michael Kelly has put together one hell of a weird fiction journal, and one I've been missing out on the last few years. Issue 5 of Shadows & Tall Trees was only recently published, and was good enough that I ordered every other volume.Issue 5 has eight short stories and one non-fiction piece. Every story is at least good, with several being great.The collection opens with New Wave by Gary Fry, a story about a father and son. After an accident in the ocean involving the wife, the husband and son...
Excellent issue, quite possibly my favorite of the run to date. The quality of these stories is uniformly high and the set encompasses a variety of styles and approaches to ghost stories and weird tales. Editor Michael Kelly has a fantastic journal going here and the only semi-bad news is that it will now be an annual anthology, leaving eager readers waiting a full year between issues. But he's doing it to preserve the viability of the publication and for that fans of the elegant dark tales he p...
3* to 5* varying resonance, from ‘well-written, but heard it before’ to ‘didn’t see that coming’. D.P. Watt is a personal favorite, and his contribution did not disappoint. Short, but highly satisfying collection.
I've read every volume of this small press collection that Michael Kelly has put out and this horror series continues to explore the themes of alienation and loss. This volume includes stories by Ray Cluley, Gary Fry, Richard Gavin, Claire Massey, Daniel Mills, Lynda E. Tucker, Kin Tidbeck, and D.P. Watt.There are several great tales here with the standout being Moonstruck by Karin Tedbeck which has a Gaimanesque quality as the moon gets closer and closer to earth. Other tales range from the sub...
Michael Kelly and Undertow Publications put out the latest issue of Shadows and Tall Trees a couple months back, a passion project that has garnered praise each time from some of the heavyweights in the realms of dark fiction. I managed to get my hands on a review copy of this fifth edition, and possibly the last in its present form, as it looks like S&TT is transitioning into trade paperbacks and e-book formats from now on.Rather than strictly horror, the stories are quite diverse, spreading a
Michael Kelly has assembled a wonderful collection of subtle horror stories here.Personal favourites:"A Cavern of Redbrick" Richard Gavin"Moonstruck" Karin Tidbeck"The Other Boy" Daniel Mills"Widdershins" Lynda E. Rucker
This being issue 5 of an annual publication contains:5 - Editors Note - Michael Kelly7 - New Wave - Gary Fry25 - Casting Ammonites - Claire Massey29 - A Cavern of Redbrick - Richard Gavin43 - Laudate Dominum (for many voices) - D.P. Watt59 - Moonstruck - Karin Tidbeck71 - Whispers in the Mist - Ray Cluley89 - A Woman's Place (non-fiction) - V.H. Leslie95 - The Other Boy - Daniel Mills107 - Widdershins - Lynda E. Rucker121 - Contributers
Another faultless selection of stories by Editor Michael Kelly. The two stand-out tales amongst them both play with the readers assumptions to twist recognisable scenarios; Ray Cluley's 'Whispers in the Mist',a lost hiker in the woods tale just being edged out by Daniel Mills' gut-wrenching tale of a ghostly drummerboy, 'The Other Boy'.The replacement of reviews, which had appeared in previous volumes, with a piece of non-fiction is a brilliant decision and V. H. Leslie's piece on 'The Yellow Wa...
I owe my writing career to the small press. My first story published in print appeared in the February 2001 issue of Indigenous Fiction. Since then, my work has appeared in over 50 venues, some of them prestigious or popular, but most of them in the small press universe (both literary and speculative). So, feeling nostalgic, I bought a copy of issue 5 of Shadows & Tall Trees. The cover art is amazing, and the submission guidelines rang a happy bell in my head, the kind that says "you just might
Afterward, when Father found her, and the moon had returned to its orbit, and the hill was empty, and everyone pretended that the city had been in the grip of some kind of temporary collective madness, Alia refused to talk about what happened, where Mother had gone. About Mother on the top of the hill, where she stood naked and laughing with her hands outstretched toward the moon’s surface. About how she was still laughing as it lowered itself toward the ground, as it pushed her to her knees, as...
