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I have not read a bad book from Egaeus press yet. With this one, I feel like I've been elsewhere completely while reading it, which is how it should be. more shortly -- real life intrudes at the moment.
For a superior reading look no further than Forrest Aguire's, but I will add my own tuppence ha'pnny as a codicil: I adored the title story, it read, to me, like an episode from the only banned portmanteau UK horror film of the 1970s. That was never made. Lovely.
It's well worth the few years' wait since John Howard's collection. "Buried Shadows" is full of love-notes to London and Berlin, chock-full of haunted architecture (lost German railway stations, a tower at Birmingham University waiting for a new sacrifice, a church that flits through the lives of three men across sixty-odd years). Rooms might be wallpapered in hyperinflationary banknotes or maps of the Weimar Republic. A man looks for omens for his homeland in the clouds over London; another qu
Another beautiful volume from Egaeus Press, filled with some very fine stories. John Howard's prose is both consistent and refined, which lends well to the pacing of his odd, intriguing tales.
This reading year has been chock full of great short story collections. Reggie Oliver's Mrs. Midnight And Other Stories, Alcebiades Diniz's opium-dream-like Lanterns of the Old Night, Paul Willem's The Cathedral of Mist, and Laird Barron's Occultation and Other Stories were all outstanding reads. I think I may have used up my allotment of superlatives on the stories contained in these collections.Now I'm wondering if I shouldn't have kept a few of them in reserve. The quality of John Howard's wr...
“Lewis had taken from his pocket and shown Matthews a small thin book…”Judging by the ambiance of London and the moon and its magical awe in yer face with a city’s substrata and this story’s finale as a holy epiphany of urbanity and urbaneness, I wondered if, for Matthews, I had recommended Mysterious Kôr and Other Stories by my favourite author who sometimes lived in London? Wishful thinking, I guess. But that is what fiction is. So yes, wishful thinking.The detailed review of this book posted
