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The Spirit Bares Its Teeth
by Andrew Joseph White
For its length and my interest, this took me a lot longer to get through than I expected. Hell Followed With Us was amazing and intriguing - it was somehow both familiar enough and novel enough to be incredibly engaging, and of course we know I always enjoy a fun little romp through some gore and body horror - but The Spirit Bares Its Teeth hits different. It hits a bit harder, somehow. HFWU was a fantastic horror novel with (in my opinion) a stronger set of underlying and entangled themes, but Spirit wins in terms of characterization, which was simply superb. A bit more spectral than splattery, and a bit more ethereal than horrifically angelic, and also perhaps - dare I say? - a bit more outright romantic, but still playing out from behind that hazy, dreamy lens that AJW seems to be such a master at crafting. Like a quick swipe of literary vaseline over the lens before sending it off for publishing.
Hell Followed With Us said that even the things called ugly and monstrous deserve love and family and dreams. The Spirit Bares Its Teeth said that we are not alone in this world and we will find each other and thrive, the rest be damned. Two very different takes, two very different moods, both very good reads and very much worth your time and your eyeballs.
Hell Followed With Us said that even the things called ugly and monstrous deserve love and family and dreams. The Spirit Bares Its Teeth said that we are not alone in this world and we will find each other and thrive, the rest be damned. Two very different takes, two very different moods, both very good reads and very much worth your time and your eyeballs.