A review by wanderswithmoonlight
Werewolves in Their Youth: Stories by Michael Chabon

4.0

I have never read Michael Chabon before, but this was a very good introduction. His style is one that manages to bridge the gap of being thorough and dense but still flowing with the same amount of ease as if he were using the most basic language possible. His prose has an excellent rhythm. What impressed me most was the last story, In the Black Mill, where he manages to accurately replicate the style of early Gothic fiction and strange fiction, like Robert W. Chambers, H.P. Lovecraft and Edgar Allen Poe. It really shows what a versatile writer Chabon actually is, both in terms of being able to replicate the style and also spare the reader the incredibly dry and dense prose that Lovecraft had.