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This is an "alright" collection of appropriately titled "strange stories." I felt that many of these were a bit too predictable, perhaps because I've read a lot of fiction of this sort. Muller does create some interesting situations and characters with genuine emotion, but the way the plots play out is often rather pat. The problem is, I feel like I've read these stories before, and often in better versions. That said, there's a few really good ones like "Slattergren," "Resurfacing" and "Omzette...
Darkly Didactic: Lingering Lessons from C.M. Muller’s HIDDEN FOLKThe ostensible simplicity of a line like, “Look, Dad, a door!” belies a complicated subtext in the story “Absconsa Laterna,” and acts as an unassuming invocation of irretrievable consequence. Far from his first publication project, but his first fiction collection, many of the “strange stories” in C.M. Muller’s Hidden Folk possess such unpretentious portents, and those who follow Muller through these thresholds will certainly rem...
Hard to believe this is a first collection. Originally published between 2014 and 2018, these 12 stories start strong with "Vrangr" and continue to get stronger. Repeated themes of dislocation and loss of identity give the collection an especially cohesive feel. I know Muller primarily as the editor of the superb Nightscript anthologies and was delighted to find his own prose lives up to the quality of those books. Highly recommended for fans of strange literary fiction.
Al igual que otros lectores aquí, opino que esta colección de relatos no está nada mal pero sus temas, historias, ambientes, etc., constantemente me recordaban demasiado a los de otros escritores del género. Se nota que el autor está fascinado con la idea del döppelganger, cosa que está muy bien, pero la verdad es que llega a cansar el encontrar dicha figura en dos, tres, cuatro o hasta más cuentos.Mis relatos favoritos fueron The Dust Child y Dissolution.
(2.4 stars)Like Michael Kelly, C.M. Muller is a good anthologist but a mediocre writer. The strange tale, tending to be one of the more ambiguous and subtle subgenres on the environs of horror fiction, demands a certain sophistication of prose-styling as well as indelibly harrowing imagery; even more so than the average peddler of dark imaginings, because all who choose to write in the shadow of Aickman do not often have the luxury of resorting to shock-and-gore effects. Elegantly haunting atmos...
And this landmark collection finally comes together in this vignette of dust and books. Making me believe that all books are the same book. The Gestalt. Dust as haunting fragments of a whole. Dust is often sand coloured like the book. Writerly hopes of a Work imported. The self in others, others in the self. A word’s worth. And the Child is the Book of all us hidden folk as one.The detailed review of this book posted elsewhere under my name is too long or impractical to post here.Above is one of...
Muller’s words lurk in a darkness somewhere in his mind then creeps along the page like some kind of supernatural shadow being. These 12 stories share the supernatural elements but all do there own scare or mind trick. An entertaining collection and I’m sure there is still a large handful of Hidden Folk living out on the range, dying to haunt the next volume of collected shorts from C.M. Muller.My 4 top favoritesThe Dust ChildA Trace of DarknessResurfacingKrogh’s Remains
This is a collection of strange and creepy stories, some better than others. Interesting and entertaining.
