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dee9401's review
3.0
I picked this up on some friends' recommendations. It was a good read that reminded me a lot of J. Sheridan Le Fanu's works, though without the final follow through at the end. Lots of tension in build up in the two longer novella pieces which sandwiched two quick short stories. Fengriffen, the title story, was good and I'd have given it a 4 if it didn't end so quickly. I liked Anachrona, the first short story. I thought it was cute and would make a fun story to tell over a fire with a nice glass of scotch. I didn't like The Foreign Bride that much. The final piece, The Dead End, was a hard one for me to rate. It reminded me a bit of The Island of Dr. Moreau (by H. G. Wells). The sexism and racism really detracted from the story, which was a pretty interesting horror piece, especially at its ending. It reminded me of a Night Gallery episode.
kuzminichna's review against another edition
3.0
Interesting gothic tales. An ancient robot coping with slow degradation alongside some medieval scientists who don't believe in nonsense alchemy. Sex-related curses and terrorized virgins in picturesque historical settings. Evil maniacs of both genders. A man whose life and love are destroyed by a mad scientist in the depth of uncharted Mountains in Tierra Del Fuego. All fun B-movies type horror.
In my current mood (all of a sudden it hit me with force that I can only read a very small number of books in the lifetime that's left for me) I feel like I could have read something better, more important, more interesting in this time. Maybe I am just not that big of a fan of weird fiction as I imagined?
In my current mood (all of a sudden it hit me with force that I can only read a very small number of books in the lifetime that's left for me) I feel like I could have read something better, more important, more interesting in this time. Maybe I am just not that big of a fan of weird fiction as I imagined?
charshorrorcorner's review
5.0
4.5 stars
This collection of horror stories written in the gothic style really, really worked well for me.
For the modern horror reader, gothic style means that these tales contain very little blood and gore. It also means that the language used is usually rather flowery and descriptive. In this case, the language used was beautiful, but NOT flowery and going on and on about the scenery and whatnot.
The fact that there was very little blood and gore does not make these tales any less horrific. Stories about a young, virgin wife being raped by an unknown entity, a science experiment gone very, very wrong, are truly terrible and actually scary . I'm very rarely disturbed by horror stories, but I was disturbed by these. In fact, I just LOVED them.
This edition has a nice intro by Stephen Graham Jones and the afterword by the ultra knowledgeable Kim Newman, (which resulted in my adding a few more books to my HUGE TBR), made for nice bookends to these gothic tales.
I highly recommend this book to fans of gothic style stories and beautiful writing!
You can buy this book here: http://www.amazon.com/Fengriffen-Other-Gothic-Tales-David-ebook/dp/B016LPBNUS/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1448898252&sr=8-1&keywords=Fengriffen+and+other
This collection of horror stories written in the gothic style really, really worked well for me.
For the modern horror reader, gothic style means that these tales contain very little blood and gore. It also means that the language used is usually rather flowery and descriptive. In this case, the language used was beautiful, but NOT flowery and going on and on about the scenery and whatnot.
The fact that there was very little blood and gore does not make these tales any less horrific. Stories about
This edition has a nice intro by Stephen Graham Jones and the afterword by the ultra knowledgeable Kim Newman, (which resulted in my adding a few more books to my HUGE TBR), made for nice bookends to these gothic tales.
I highly recommend this book to fans of gothic style stories and beautiful writing!
You can buy this book here: http://www.amazon.com/Fengriffen-Other-Gothic-Tales-David-ebook/dp/B016LPBNUS/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1448898252&sr=8-1&keywords=Fengriffen+and+other
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