Gateways to Abomination: Collected Short Fiction
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"Bizarre radio broadcasts luring dissolute souls into the dark woods of Western Massachusetts. Sinister old men in topcoats gathered at corners and in playgrounds. A long-dead sorcerer returning to obscene life in the form of an old buck goat. Welcome to Leeds, Massachusetts, where the drowned walk, where winged leeches blast angry static, where black magic casts a shadow over a cringing populace. You've tuned in to WXXT. The fracture in the stanchion. The drop of blood in your morning milk. The viper in the veins of the Pioneer Valley"--P. [4] of cover.
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The prose in this one was really pleasant but the stories felt a little underdeveloped for the violence and dreamlike nature of the stories to really have the full impact.
I just finished Gateways to Abomination: Collected Short Fiction by Matthew M. Bartlett. This was a very quick read with very short chapters telling stories that seem to be interconnected. It is one of the weirdest books of horror I've come across, like riding a wave into insanity, but I found it refreshingly different. It's probably a book that individual readers will either love or hate. Just remember, if you ever find yourself tuning the radio dial in Southwestern Massachusetts and radio station WXXT pops up, you're most likely doomed.
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