Faint
- Lincoln Michel
- Nadxieli Nieto
- Meg Elison
- Samantha Hunt
- Andrew F. Sullivan
- Stephen Graham Jones
- Amber Sparks
- Ben Loory
- Pedro Íñiguez
- Brian Evenson
dnf @ pg 105
okay I picked it up at the library because it was pink and it looked interesting, but the minute I read "piercing the imaginary line between literary and genre fiction" in the introduction I was like mmmmmmmmmaybe not. some of the stories were great (I went out of my way to make sure I read Stephen Graham Jones' contribution and was NOT disappointed) but most of them were just... meh.
the collection was meant to (according to the intro) blend traditional terrors with more real life or modern ones and that's fine. horror is often a metaphor for our fears of something else. but that only works if you're subtle about it and these authors.... mmm. no. very heavy handed. and this might be a side effect of each story being less than 2k words, but the overwhelming feeling of pretention slapping me in the face every time I started a new story was more than I could handle.
anyways. this was pretentious and most of the 19 stories I read were mid at best and talking down to you at worst.
dnf @ pg 105
okay I picked it up at the library because it was pink and it looked interesting, but the minute I read "piercing the imaginary line between literary and genre fiction" in the introduction I was like mmmmmmmmmaybe not. some of the stories were great (I went out of my way to make sure I read Stephen Graham Jones' contribution and was NOT disappointed) but most of them were just... meh.
the collection was meant to (according to the intro) blend traditional terrors with more real life or modern ones and that's fine. horror is often a metaphor for our fears of something else. but that only works if you're subtle about it and these authors.... mmm. no. very heavy handed. and this might be a side effect of each story being less than 2k words, but the overwhelming feeling of pretention slapping me in the face every time I started a new story was more than I could handle.
anyways. this was pretentious and most of the 19 stories I read were mid at best and talking down to you at worst.