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Having watched this anthology since the call for submissions went out, I wasn't sure what the final product would be. The lineup is impressive, as there are several big names in weird fiction who stand out in the ToC. Matthew M. Bartlett, Jonathan Raab, Aaron Vlek, Erica Ruppert and Cody Goodfellow are all names which I have come to expect quality from.But the writers I had NOT read before were outstanding as well. L. Chan's story was a revelation in what the gold standard for a science fiction
Interesting bunch of short stories, a bit hit or miss. Some were really great, and some needed to be edited to really seem at the publishing phase. A bunch of the stories were too explainy, as in they felt the need to really lay out every detail. Give a long history of this or reason for that. For stories so short, it was really noticeable when people spent time on these things. Like if 15% of your short story is explaining your short story, maybe just don’t do that. The best stories just let yo...
An excellent, weird-with-a-capital-W anthology, pushing the limits of what you can do with the idea of possession. This is a read that requires attention and investment, going to truly surreal places that blur the lines of identity, the "soul", and our relation to other beings. It's a book that requires contemplation, leading to the brevity of this review (I shall update it when I've fully gathered my thoughts about it), but it is most certainly a potent blend of horror (both earthly and cosmic)...
As all collections from Martian Migraine must, this one draws its theme from an included Lovecraft story, The Colour Out of Space. However, it takes that thematic inspiration in even less literal than usual direction by centering the theme on the idea of things which can only communicate with man via possession. An interesting take on 'Colour' which we don't often see in film or related literature. The creative latitude lent by this approach gives us pretty wide ranging entries in terms of conte...
MMP's latest anthology takes as its theme "possession" and as its springboard H. P. Lovecraft's "The Colour Out of Space," included here and referenced obliquely in several contributions. Other stories address the underpinning theme of "Colour," contact with an alien entity so profoundly different that its only means of communication would be interpreted by us as possession, the outstanding example of this for me being L. Chan's "We Don't Talk About the Invasion Anymore," an SF story that not on...
So, well, I'm in this book so there's a caveat right there. However, most of the other authors included I hadn't read before and I was really taken with a number of the stories, and the way they played with the theme. I especially enjoyed Sam Grieve and Megan Arkenberg's stories.Anyway, I recommend this anthology, so take that with as much salt as it deserves, me being one of the authors in the anthology.
For an anthology of horror stories involving the theme of possession, I'm going to really need more than a bunch of stories about satan, ghosts, and demons. Fortunately, this awesome collection by Martian Migraine more than fits the bill. There are stories here that would appeal to fans of "The Exorcist," but there a plenty that push boundaries into Mythos style entities, other-worldly beings, and body-horror parasites. Full disclosure: my story, "Promontory" is included within this collection.
