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The Poorly Made and Other Things by Sam Rebelein
5.0
Sam Rebelein has created an amazing collection of true modern horror.
The Poorly Made and Other Things expands upon the world created in Rebelein's debut novel, Edenville, a book which I recommend often.
Edenville and Poorly Made are set in Renfield County, in upstate New York. Renfield County is a cursed and evil place, haunted by acts of violence, disturbance, and bad intentions. Rebelein builds this world so thoroughly, with history and mythology, patterns and influences, secrets and obsessions. Every story in this collection has ties to the evil within Renfield, and the Interstitials between each story slowly weave tension, history and a loosening sanity.
The collection opens with a truly terrifying tale of Hector Brim, a man who "helps' the newly grieved. Hector shows up again in another story and it is chilling. My Name is Ellie and Wag are other favorites, And the terror in Ellie's story shows up again in the spectacular, So My Cousin Knew This Guy. And Glitch is just a shocking, unraveling tale of depression and body horror.
Every story is so approachable, so illogically logical, and the reader has such a strong sense of place and time in Renfield, that it is even MORE terrifying, because you feel like, Yeah, I heard of that guy too! or Yeah, that urban myth sounds familiar...
Such smart, interwoven, deeply clever horror stories.
The Poorly Made and Other Things expands upon the world created in Rebelein's debut novel, Edenville, a book which I recommend often.
Edenville and Poorly Made are set in Renfield County, in upstate New York. Renfield County is a cursed and evil place, haunted by acts of violence, disturbance, and bad intentions. Rebelein builds this world so thoroughly, with history and mythology, patterns and influences, secrets and obsessions. Every story in this collection has ties to the evil within Renfield, and the Interstitials between each story slowly weave tension, history and a loosening sanity.
The collection opens with a truly terrifying tale of Hector Brim, a man who "helps' the newly grieved. Hector shows up again in another story and it is chilling. My Name is Ellie and Wag are other favorites, And the terror in Ellie's story shows up again in the spectacular, So My Cousin Knew This Guy. And Glitch is just a shocking, unraveling tale of depression and body horror.
Every story is so approachable, so illogically logical, and the reader has such a strong sense of place and time in Renfield, that it is even MORE terrifying, because you feel like, Yeah, I heard of that guy too! or Yeah, that urban myth sounds familiar...
Such smart, interwoven, deeply clever horror stories.