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A review by scarlettletters
The Ape's Wife and Other Stories by Caitlín R. Kiernan
4.0
I'm in the habit of not usually giving more than three stars to collections, mainly because I feel they can be hit or miss and while I might like some of the stories, I don't like all of them enough to give a 4-star rating. However, I really enjoyed the majority of the stories in here and the ones I didn't love, I still thought were pretty good.
My favorite was probably The Tall Men. It had a great creepy vibe with nothing ever really explained. The title story may have been my least favorite, but I can appreciate wanting to explore your own headcanon or think about how things in a favorite work could have gone differently.
The stories range in genre from Steampunk to post-apocalyptic to urban fantasy to just plain weird. Many of them had hints of Lovecraft, if Lovecraft were a queer woman. I think the ones with a more Lovecraftian tone were the ones I liked best, and they definitely made me want to read some of Kiernan's other work.
My favorite was probably The Tall Men. It had a great creepy vibe with nothing ever really explained. The title story may have been my least favorite, but I can appreciate wanting to explore your own headcanon or think about how things in a favorite work could have gone differently.
The stories range in genre from Steampunk to post-apocalyptic to urban fantasy to just plain weird. Many of them had hints of Lovecraft, if Lovecraft were a queer woman. I think the ones with a more Lovecraftian tone were the ones I liked best, and they definitely made me want to read some of Kiernan's other work.