Tag archives: horror

Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology

Shane Hawk, Theodore C. Van Alst Jr. (Editors)
  • “Kushtuka” Mathilda Zeller ★★★½
  • “White Hills” Rebecca Roanhorse ★★★½
  • “Navajos Don’t Wear Elk Teeth” Conley Lyons ★★★½
  • “Wingless” Marcie R. Rendon ★★★
  • “Quantum” Nick Medina ★★★
  • “Hunger” Phoenix Boudreau ★★★½
  • “Tick Talk” Cherie Dimaline ★★★
  • “The Ones Who Killed Us” Brandon Hobson DNF
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Lost Places

by Sarah Pinsker
  • “Two Truths and a Lie” ★★★
  • “That Our Flag Was Still There” ★★★
  • “I Frequently Hear Music in the Very Heart of Noise” DNF
  • “The Court Magician” ★★★
  • “Everything Is Closed Today” ★★★
  • “Left the Century to Sit Unmoved” ★★★
  • “Escape from Caring Seasons” ★★★¼
  • “A Better Way
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The Wishing Pool and Other Stories

by Tananarive Due
  • “The Wishing Pool” ★★★
  • “Haint in the Window” ★★★
  • “Incident at Bear Creek Lodge” ★★★
  • “Thursday Night Shift” ★★★★
  • “Last Stop on Route 9” ★★
  • “Suppertime” ★★★
  • “Rumpus Room” ★★★
  • “Migration” ★½
  • “Caretaker” ★★
  • “One Day Only” ★★★½
  • “Attachment Disorder” ★★★
  • “Ghost Ship” ★★★½
  • “Shopping Day” ★★★
  • “The
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Wylding Hall

by Elizabeth Hand

The Mary Poppins-speak is beyond belabored, alongside amateur journalist mythmaking with the principal characters speaking about themselves as if they were their own fans (‘history in the making‘, ‘we were all young and beautiful and gifted‘). The author compares characters to celebrities instead of … Read more

Eleven

by Patricia Highsmith

Beacons of unpleasantness

  • “The Snail-Watcher” ★★½
  • “The Birds Poised to Fly” ★★½
  • “The Terrapin” DNF
  • “When the Fleet was in at Mobile” ★★½
  • “The Quest for ‘Blank Claveringi'” ★★½
  • “The Cries of Love” ★★
  • “Mrs. Afton, Among Thy Green Braes” ★★
  • “The Heroine” ★★
  • “Another Bridge to Cross”
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