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Gary Fry (Gary_fry)
Username: Gary_fry

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 86.31.170.240
Posted on Tuesday, October 05, 2010 - 09:41 pm:   

Just read this in Best New Horror. Class tale and wonderfully written.
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Rosswarren (Rosswarren)
Username: Rosswarren

Registered: 11-2009
Posted From: 217.39.69.169
Posted on Tuesday, October 05, 2010 - 10:22 pm:   

Picked it up today, but still on Throttle though.
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Barbara Roden (Nebuly)
Username: Nebuly

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 142.179.13.54
Posted on Wednesday, October 06, 2010 - 12:41 am:   

Thanks, Gary; glad you enjoyed the story!
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Gary Fry (Gary_fry)
Username: Gary_fry

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 86.31.170.240
Posted on Wednesday, October 06, 2010 - 01:25 pm:   

I greatly admire tales which manage to be frightening despite nothing particularly tangible occurring. Simon Stranzas can do this extremely well, too.
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Zed (Gary_mc)
Username: Gary_mc

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 195.166.117.210
Posted on Wednesday, October 06, 2010 - 02:44 pm:   

Dennis Etchison is the master of this trick...
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Steve Bacon (Stevebacon)
Username: Stevebacon

Registered: 09-2008
Posted From: 90.209.220.4
Posted on Wednesday, October 06, 2010 - 09:50 pm:   

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.
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Gary Fry (Gary_fry)
Username: Gary_fry

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 86.31.170.240
Posted on Wednesday, October 06, 2010 - 10:10 pm:   

Yes, that one, and the 'two woman visiting the island' tale in BNH 20 - genius.
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Rosswarren (Rosswarren)
Username: Rosswarren

Registered: 11-2009
Posted From: 217.39.69.169
Posted on Thursday, October 07, 2010 - 11:07 pm:   

Bit underwhelmed by Throttle so I'm going to try this next.
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Ian Alexander Martin (Iam)
Username: Iam

Registered: 10-2009
Posted From: 207.6.255.47
Posted on Friday, October 08, 2010 - 05:06 am:   


quote:

I greatly admire tales which manage to be frightening despite nothing particularly tangible occurring. Simon Stranzas can do this extremely well, too.


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!
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Gary Fry (Gary_fry)
Username: Gary_fry

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 86.31.170.240
Posted on Friday, October 08, 2010 - 07:42 am:   

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.

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