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Category: Short Story Reviews

Reviews of short fiction.

Short Story Review – Hundreds of Little Absences by Aimee Ogden

Posted on October 5, 2021 by Ben Gilles

I love cheesey horror movies. My wife and I went to see Insidious 2 on our first date. Neither of us had seen Insidious 1.… Continue reading

Posted in Reviews, Short Story ReviewsTagged Aimee Ogden, Dark Magazine, Horror, Hundreds of Little Absences

Short Story Review – Fading Memories by Michael Bracken

Posted on October 4, 2021 by Ben Gilles

[Content Warning: This one is pretty much erotica] On Twitter I announced that I had a personal goal of reading one short horror story for… Continue reading

Posted in Reviews, Short Story ReviewsTagged Fading Memories, Horror, Michael Bracken, Short Story, Unnerving Magazine

Short Story Review – Double Dare by Serena Jayne

Posted on October 3, 2021 by Ben Gilles

Double Dare by Serena Jayne is a modern twist on a classic horror formula. A person desecrates a grave, corpse, or some other artifact of… Continue reading

Posted in Reviews, Short Story ReviewsTagged Double Dare, Horror, Serena Jayne

Short Story Review – Darkness in August by Bentley Little

Posted on October 2, 2021 by Ben Gilles

[Content Warning: Rape] There’s a kind of subgenre that crops up from time to time in short form horror fiction. I don’t know if it… Continue reading

Posted in Reviews, Short Story ReviewsTagged Bentley Little, Darkness in August, Faulkner, Horror, Unnerving

Short Story Review – The Wemategunis by James Edward O’Brien

Posted on October 1, 2021 by Ben Gilles

The Wemategunis is a story about a creature from Native American folklore (pronounced: weh-mah-teh-guh-neese) that struck me as being similar to the huldufólk from Icelandic… Continue reading

Posted in Reviews, Short Story ReviewsTagged Horror, James Edward O'Brien, Wemategunis

Short Story Review: Monkeys on the Beach by Ralph Robert Moore

Posted on November 9, 2020 by Ben Gilles

Monkeys on the Beach by Ralph Robert Moore is a story about a vacation from hell. An American family goes on vacation to some Carribean… Continue reading

Posted in Short Story ReviewsTagged Anthology, Ellen Datlow, Horror, Monkeys on the Beach, Ralph Robert Moore, The Best Horror of the Year

Short Story Reviews: Haunted House Tour: 1 per by Paul Tremblay

Posted on November 3, 2020 by Ben Gilles

Careful listeners may recognize Paul Tremblay as the author of one of the first books we ever covered on this podcast: Headful of Ghosts. The… Continue reading

Posted in Short Story ReviewsTagged Ellen Datlow, Haunted House Tour, Paul Tremblay, The Best Horror of the Year

Short Story Review: I Remember Nothing by Anne Billson

Posted on November 1, 2020 by Ben Gilles

I have more anthologies and collections of short fiction than is probably normal or healthy. To my great shame, many of them were purchased, placed… Continue reading

Posted in Reviews, Short Story ReviewsTagged Anne Billson, Horror, I remember nothing, Short Story

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Ben's books

The President Is Missing
it was ok
The President Is Missing
by Bill Clinton
Where to start with this book? Should I talk about how I don't believe that either James Patterson or Bill Clinton actually did much of the writing? Should I talk about how Bill Clinton is spending his retirement creating Bill Clinton fa...
A Court of Mist and Fury
liked it
A Court of Mist and Fury
by Sarah J. Maas
I thought this was pretty ok. I'm team Night Court. I really enjoy that Feyre is getting to have a hipster phase with the cool kids in a fancy Bohemian city. I dont even mind that she has all the super powers, I thought that would bug me...
The Infernal City
it was ok
The Infernal City
by Greg Keyes
I don't often do this, but I'm going to engage in a controversial DNF review. I'm fairly confident that being forced to read every word of the rest of it would only lower my score. I made it about half way through Part 1 of the audio boo...
Beowulf: A New Translation for Oral Delivery (Hackett Classics) by Dick Ringler (1-Oct-2007) Paperback
it was amazing
Beowulf: A New Translation for Oral Delivery (Hackett Classics) by Dick Ringler (1-Oct-2007) Paperback
by Unknown Author
I've read a few translations of Beowulf, and the only thing that's really missing from this one is the original language text. Ringler does a pretty good job of the translation itself. He includes very solid explanation and context as well.
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
did not like it
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
by Rebecca Wells
I'm neither a mother nor a daughter so take this with a grain of salt, I guess. Siddalee is a famous stage director who stages a hit play. She's interviewed for a New York Times article. When asked about her childhood she accidentally pr...

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