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"Shadows & Tall Trees Volume 7" is the latest in a series begun a few years ago by a man I greatly admire Michael Kelly. The book is touted as being composed of dark and fantastic fiction by some of today's top artisans in that field. As I made my way through the stories, what stuck out to me was so many of them dealt with death, loss and an overall lingering sadness within it's characters and narratives. The stories were wonderfully written and the oozing of emotions was well captured by the au...
This was my first time reading editor Michael Kelly's anthology series, "Shadows and Tall Trees," and I regret not reading it sooner. The stories contained within are some of the finest examples of quiet/subtle horror. The table of contents is stacked with some great writers working in the horror field today. I don't know if Michael looks for certain elements in the stories he chooses for the anthology, but the majority of them are explorations of grief, mourning, loss, guilt, regret, closure, i...
Shadows & Talls Trees 7 collects a wide variety of stories. Some are supernatural horror, some are more straight weird, and some are even harder to classify, but all are dark. It's a decent enough anthology. There were only a few stories I didn't like, but there were also only a couple that I really did like. 'The Erased' by Steve Rasnic Tem, 'The Water Kings' by Manish Melwani, and 'Sun Dogs' by Laura Mauro were the bright spots for me.
A collection of varied and beautifully written weird fiction from some of the genre's biggest names, ranging from traditional horror to the surreal. Personally, I preferred the slightly less weird entries, with my favourites being those by V H Leslie, Laura Mauro, Robert Shearman, and Malcolm Devlin. Those four were worth the cover price alone.
The stories were ok but nothing exceptional.
42 SHORT STORIES IN 42 DAYS*DAY 35: Everything Beautiful Is Terrifying, by M. RickertThis story slightly overplays its hand by trying to cram in too much too fast, but I love the scale of its ambition, and the final paragraph is gorgeous.*The rules:– Read one short story a day, every day for six weeks– Read no more than one story by the same author within any 14-day period– Deliberately include authors I wouldn't usually read– Review each story in one sentence or lessAny fresh reading suggestion...
Volume 7 is the first of SHADOWS AND TALL TREES that I’ve read. This particular gathering of stories tends towards sadness, particularly “Dispossession” by Nicholas Royle, the closing story about mental illness and trauma. “Engines of the Ocean,” by Christopher Slatsky, is by turns sad and frightening. The scarier works included the opening tale, “Line of Sight” by Brian Evenson. I hadn’t thought, after reading so much horror over so many years, that such a short work would scare me into keeping...
I went into this book with high hopes based on seeing other positive reviews of both this series and also this specific collection. Unfortunately I was extremely disappointed through most of this book and truly had to force myself through it as a test of endurance. Most of the endings to these stories felt like they were being much more clever than they really were. Many of the stories would end having only established their core concept without having exposited very much about their scenario at...
Not too bad at all.This was a good collection overall. I wouldn't exactly call it a horror anthology, it's more a collection of odd and slightly disturbing stories. I've never read the previous six books, but I'll read them based on this book.
Favorites: "Root-Light" & "We Can Walk it Off Come Morning"
