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I have walked through the Tenderloin in San Francisco a couple times. Now I wish I had paid more attention to this small and interesting neighborhood. I also wish I had paid attention to Gene O'Neill the author of this thin and instense collection of themed horror fiction.The stories themselves are varied and diverse but the thread that holds tightly together is the setting of the Tenderloin neighborhood. The tenderloin business association probably wont endorse this book I sure as hell will. O'...
Taste of Tenderloin is comprised of eight unique stories based on life in the underbelly of San Francisco. All of the stories are connected, as they take place in the same neighborhood, and a recurring character pops up throughout to help show this connection. The language that O'Neill writes in is rich and vivid, showing he is a strong storyteller, but there was something about the stories in this particular collection that didn't grab me. All of the stories seem to end in doom and gloom and le...
Read in 2009TOC:i - Acknowledgmentsii - Introduction1 - Lost Patrol13 - Magic Words27 - Tombstones In His Eyes47 - Bushido63 - Balance79 - The Apotheosis of Nathan Mckee101 - Bruised Soul119 - 5150142 - Afterword145 - Bios
A Taste of Tenderloin, by Gene O’Neil is a series of eight stories, which all take place in the Tenderloin district. The Tenderloin district is the roughest neighborhood in San Francisco and one could find plenty for real tales that take place here that could raise the hairs on the back of your neck, but Mr. O’Neil takes it a step further and adds an element of the supernatural to each of his stories. His stories range from down and out drunks and drug addicts, to people who have already given u...
I got this because it won a Bram Stoker Award for Superior Collection. I wanted to read some decent horror and this is set in the Tenderloin which contains some of my favorite areas in San Francisco. In particular I love the theatre district where many theatres rub up against dive bars and strip clubs in an uneasy alliance. There are some cool buildings here and Dashiell Hammett wrote The Maltese Falcon. The Tenderloin is its place, not cleaned up and prettified for the tourists and the yuppies
Having visited San Francisco, and its infamous Tenderloin, this book caught my eye. That district has a distinctive air of desperation and damage, and I hoped that Mr O’Neill would be able to capture it.Well he has. Perfectly.This attractive little book from Apex Publications contains 8 exceptional tales all set in the Tenderloin in which we meet some interesting and broken people. My favourites included Tombstones in his Eyes, in which an addict attempts to hoodwink a terrifying new dealer on t...
I recently met Gene O’Neill at a Brian Keene signing event in San Francisco and he may be one of the nicest people I have ever met. He was gracious enough to speak with me for a while and talk books, which was super cool. I felt bad though because I had never read his work, so I had to remedy that immediately. Glad I did too, because, in addition to being a really genuine, nice guy, he can also write terrific stories. If you can call the tales in Taste of the Tenderloin, terrific. Maybe a better...
This is a very good collection of eight horror/fantasy stories set in San Francisco's Tenderloin district. The stories are tenuously linked thematically and by some recurring supporting characters and settings. The attention to the character of the down-and-out protagonists is quite well done, treating the addicts, prostitutes, alcoholics, and other lost souls with respect and affording them some dignity. I particularly liked Bruised Soul, an unreliable-narrator story featuring an ex-boxer; Bala...
Spooky and creepy, right from the start!
Back in the mid 70s, I went to San Francisco for a week and stayed at a hotel in the Union Square area. I did a lot of walking and wandered into a nearby seedy area while I was trying to find The Great American Music Hall where I planned to see McCoy Tyner in concert later that night. I was fascinated by the worn-down vibes of the area. Even the bums were interesting. I also managed to find a dynamite German restaurant that knew how to make a mean schnitzel. I told a friend I spent most of the d...
Read my review at FeoAmante.com: http://www.feoamante.com/Stories/Revi...
Despite the flavorful title, Gene O' Neill's Taste of Tenderloin doesn't feature eight stories dedicated to culinary tales, but instead it's his ode to the San Francisco Tenderloin District, bent on making the area a vivid, magical place all its own.The first story, “Lost Patrol”, is not necessarily a traditional story with a beginning, middle and end. Instead it's a character profile, short, but vivid, with a delicate stretch of story surrounding it. Like an appetizer, there's not much here, bu...
Just awesome book, especially if you know the 'loin'. The story 'Bushido' inspired me.
