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ericgaryanderson 's review for:
The October Country
by Ray Bradbury
Some of the stories hold up better than others, but all are distinctive and many are at the very least quietly unsettling. Bradbury is excellent at writing settings that, whether noir or realist or gothic or whatever, ratchet up the spookiness. I also appreciate that he doesn't typically do conventional monster or ghost stories; what's creepy here is almost always some sort of supernatural or metaphysical wrongness in the world. The October Country seems to be a place where the laws of physics, mortality, and more are quietly, impossibly, irreparably bent.