| Author | Message | ||
     Mbfg (Mbfg) Username: Mbfg Registered: 09-2010 Posted From: 212.219.63.204 |
I've finally got round to reading "Dirty Prayers" and am absolutely blown away by these stories. Particularly "Bungalow People" and "Estate of the Nation" (which I remember from "Midnight Street"). This is one of the grittiest, most socially-aware horror collection I've ever read. Cheers Terry | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.253.77 |
Hey, thanks, Terry...blimey, that collection's a bit of a blast from the past now. An angrier Gary McMahon than the one who exists now wrote those stories. | ||
| Mbfg (Mbfg) Username: Mbfg Registered: 09-2010 Posted From: 212.219.63.204 |
That applies to my own "Exaggerated Man" collection, most of it written during a time of great prsonal difficulty and all the sharpoer for the fact. Alhtough my imminent "Bloody War" is a pretty angry bloody book. Whoops, shameless self-promotion... Anyway, just read "Smother" and what an emotional wrench tht story is. You really did get something right with this set of stories Gary. and this is not syconphancy, I am really affected by this work. Cheers Terry | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 09-2010 Posted From: 86.165.36.129 |
I have always been proud that the two storiees Gary had in 'Nemonymous' - MY BURGLAR and NEW SCIENCE - were choasen for reprinting in this book. | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.253.77 |
Thank's again, Terry. You're too kind. I still have a great fondness for most of the tales in that book, but I think my work is much better crafted these days - less rough around the edges - and hopefully it benefits from that. | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.253.77 |
I poured my fucking heart and soul into Dirty Prayers, though...I always felt that most of the stories should've been written in my blood. | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.31.24.131 |
Who published that old shit, then? | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.253.77 |
Some tramp from Bradford. | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 09-2010 Posted From: 86.165.36.129 |
A writer's earlier works are often his or her best work, whatever rough edges are later smoothed in hindsight. | ||
| Matthew Fryer (Matthew_fryer) Username: Matthew_fryer Registered: 08-2009 Posted From: 90.195.182.194 |
I'm very fond of Dirty Prayers. The first time I read it, it was a pleasant sunny afternoon, and when I put the book down after a couple of stories, the world had changed, and everything had become sinister and angry. |