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Compelling studies of decadent decay by one of my favorite authors.
Watt is one of the current small press strange authors I've been most eager to read and was surprised to find that most of the stories are a very contemporary urban horror which I've mostly not been much fond of, which seemed totally at odds with the titles and presentation of his books and what I had heard about his writing. Some of the other stories are often disembodied philosophical explorations of surreal concepts.It is all very well written but more often than not, I just wasn't that inter...
Eleven tales, of which seven come from quite obscure/expensive/o.p. volumes and four are new to this volume. Those who are familiar with his work will know what to expect - they are almost all unremittingly bleak, surrealistic tale, usually culminating in some sort of destruction, moral, mental or physical. Watt is often compared to Thomas Ligotti, and there is certainly a strong anti-natalist element in these tales, but Watt also has something of a personal/political conscience and, although it...
This collection of muted and Earth stories by D.P Watt will be a delight for those who have enjoyed previous collections by the author. My personal ratings of the stories are below:- These His Other Worlds - 7- Noumenon - 8- Jack - 6- Distillate of Sin - 8- Your Bodies, Where We Dwell - 4- Serendipity - 9- How to Make a Secret - 4- Hiraeth - 8- Clematis, White and Purple - 8- Pay No Worship to the Garish Sun - 8- The Proclamation - 8
Silence or our own screaming that the silence reveals?Essential Wattage.The detailed review of this book posted elsewhere under my name is too long to post here.Above is one of its observations.
Being my first contact with D. P. Watt, Beatific Vermin left me with slightly mixed feelings. Its 11 short stories fall into the weird spectrum of speculative fiction, but are in the same time deeply grounded into contemporary mundane reality. There are strong strokes of existential angst and social awareness (issues of reactionary politics, class, immigration, are embedded in several of the stories), filtered through a slightly humorous (almost sardonic) nihilistic aura. I was reminded of Clive...
