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Stephen Graham Jones really understands horror, the way that the most mundane and ordinary things can be twisted just slightly off kilter into something terrifying.It's a fantastic collection, and one which is likely to satisfy the most jaded of horror fans.
(3.5)Rep: Native American mcs, gay mcs, paraplegic mcCWs: homophobic slurs & violence (fourth story), gore & torture (final story)
SGJ has become a favorite author of mine. I've yet to come across anything he's written that I didn't like. He writes short stories very well too, and that's something not every author can do. Every single story is great. A nice mixture of emotion between these pages.
There were maybe two or three that I thought were just okay, the vast majority of these stories are fantastic. Dude is a master on several levels. This collection was almost as good as The Ones That Got Away and an author can never have too many short stories or collections.
‘So, monsters are real. Surprise.’One of my favorite parts of Spooky Season is overdoing it on scary books and then being home alone for a weekend and regretting it at midnight. I can think of no better choice for these sorts of shenanigans than After the People Lights Have Gone Off by the prolific and wildly imaginative Stephen Graham Jones. This collection is so good I read it in a wave of obsessive joy, unable to pull myself out of its vortex of horror and even when I had to be ripped away (j...
There are hundreds of reviews and ratings for AFTER THE PEOPLE LIGHTS HAVE GONE OFF and there's not much I can add to what's already been said. I love how this man writes and his powers of description. It takes concentration to properly read his prose and during this time of near constant distraction, (there's a pandemic going on), the fact that he captured my attention and held it, really says something. There's a ton of variety here, my favorites being DOC'S STORY, SECOND CHANCES, THE SPINDLY
*For note of disclosure, see below.Stephen’s latest book, After the People Lights Have Gone Off, is a short story collection published by the new and impressive Dark House Press**. What I admire most about Stephen’s work is how fearlessly he approaches and employs possibility. It’s one thing to come up with the concept, the what-if, but Stephen pokes, prods, and expands his possibilities until you-the-reader arrive at this strange place that is simultaneously shocking and familiar. His fiction d...
I really wanted to savor this one. Especially after I got a few stories into it, and I realized how good it is. But I've never really been one to savor. I binge. I gulp. I consume. And then I spend days thinking about something. I will be thinking about After the People Lights Have Gone Off for quite a few days. First, that's just a fantastic title, and one of the many reasons I picked up this collection. Earlier this year I read Mapping the Interior and was so impressed with Jones's writing. Th...
While I heard about this author when I spoke briefly to Thomas Olde Heuvelt on his book tour (he was reading Mongrels), I came to this book in a somewhat strange way. Book Riot had a quiz called Which Indie Press Should You Be Obsessed With?" , so of course I took it, and ended up with a publisher I had never heard of - Curbside Splendor. I went on an interlibrary loan requesting frenzy and ended up with five books from Curbside Splendor or their imprint, Dark House Press, which this title is...
Stephen Graham Jones does horror better than terror and delights in a laconic, no-nonsense style that occasionally verges on unconscious parody. As I am a reader who prefers Arthur Machen to Stephen King and Nabokov to Hemingway, I am far from being Jone's ideal reader.I can still be impressed by his style, however, which sometimes shines most clearly in the simplest descriptions. For example, in “Brushdogs,” he tells us how a character opened two cans of chili and then “poured them into a pan,
"We were just talking about how if you admit devils," Drake said, "then that means the door must be open for angels as well.""Or more demons," the spindly man said, sitting back in his chair. "Inside every angel, there's a demon waiting to claw out, right?"*This author certainly has a gift for milking the mundane, ho-hum trivialities of our everyday existences: seeing a movie, attending a book club, waiting to pick up your spouse from work. Under his skilled pen, our bland routines are opportuni...
Best collection I've read since Ballingrud's North American Lake Monsters. Favorites include Brushdogs, The Spindly Man, This is Love, and the title story.
I had read a couple of stories by Stephen Graham Jones before, and one of them, which has a name that escapes me right now, about two boys and a girl reading about witches near a lake in the winter I think, and they throw the girl into the water kind of as a fun joke among all three of them, and she doesn't sink and screams and runs away across the water, holy shit that just gave me goosebumps writing that as I remember it again. FUCK. For awhile I was giving this book three stars. Like in the s...
Wow. Just, wow. I want to read everything Jones has written now.
These were all pretty good, but "Solve for X" was my favourite.
