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A review by bill_gauthier
A Long December by Richard Chizmar
5.0
Richard Chizmar’s collection A LONG DECEMBER kicks ass. What? You want more? All right, all right. Chizmar os best known, I think, as the editor and publisher of CEMETERY DANCE MAGAZINE as well as Cemetery Dance Publishing. In other words, one of the best and most important magazines and publishers in horror and dark fiction. I expected this collection to be good, what got me is how bloody good it is.
Is it horror? Some of the stories are, I guess. Some are crime fiction, but I honestly didn’t keep track of genre because Chizmar’s writing doesn’t care about genre. These are deeply emotional stories. Some of the, are very dark, indeed, but they are all absolutely human. A few of the stories nearly left me in tears, which isn’t easy to do in literature for me.
Chizmar knows how to tell a story that will move you. I envy you your first reading of this collection
Is it horror? Some of the stories are, I guess. Some are crime fiction, but I honestly didn’t keep track of genre because Chizmar’s writing doesn’t care about genre. These are deeply emotional stories. Some of the, are very dark, indeed, but they are all absolutely human. A few of the stories nearly left me in tears, which isn’t easy to do in literature for me.
Chizmar knows how to tell a story that will move you. I envy you your first reading of this collection