| Author | Message | ||
     Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.31.170.240 |
Just read this in Best New Horror. Class tale and wonderfully written. | ||
| Rosswarren (Rosswarren) Username: Rosswarren Registered: 11-2009 Posted From: 217.39.69.169 |
Picked it up today, but still on Throttle though. | ||
| Barbara Roden (Nebuly) Username: Nebuly Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 142.179.13.54 |
Thanks, Gary; glad you enjoyed the story! | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.31.170.240 |
I greatly admire tales which manage to be frightening despite nothing particularly tangible occurring. Simon Stranzas can do this extremely well, too. | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.166.117.210 |
Dennis Etchison is the master of this trick... | ||
| Steve Bacon (Stevebacon) Username: Stevebacon Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 90.209.220.4 |
I enjoyed this too. There are several examples of that feeling in Northwest Passages, I think. The one by Simon Strantzas (which was I think originally in the GF Christmas chapbook) about the winter visitor is also a corker. | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.31.170.240 |
Yes, that one, and the 'two woman visiting the island' tale in BNH 20 - genius. | ||
| Rosswarren (Rosswarren) Username: Rosswarren Registered: 11-2009 Posted From: 217.39.69.169 |
Bit underwhelmed by Throttle so I'm going to try this next. | ||
| Ian Alexander Martin (Iam) Username: Iam Registered: 10-2009 Posted From: 207.6.255.47 |
So… if I'm understanding this correctly… Simon is great at writing stories that terrify you yet have no plot? So… if I can sarcastically extrapolate… Strantzas scares you by being a crap writer by not putting anything in his stories? [hurriedly places a blank piece of paper in front of Fry] There! Deal with that, then! Bwa-ha-ha-ha! | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.31.170.240 |
I think I'd rather just kick you up the arse, if it's all the same to you.  Seriously, Simon and Barbara share a sensibility in many ways, though Simon's work is arch and chilly, whereas Barbara's is warm and frightening. I'm reluctant to conclude that this shared outlook is a Canadian thing. You tell me. |