Andrzej started reading Ghosts by Roger Clarke
"Is there anybody out there?" No matter how rationally we order our lives, few of …
Switching things up with a bit of social history (that is also about ghosts)
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A writer who reads. I like reading short stories, classics, and horror.
I do read contemporary stuff but I'm not going to post about that here 👍
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Andrzej rated Twenty-Six Men And A Girl: 5 stars
Andrzej finished reading Twenty-Six Men And A Girl by Maksim Gorky
Absolutely stunning.
Andrzej finished reading Dark Tales by Shirley Jackson
Hit and miss if I'm being honest. A couple of gems, but I've read better Shirley Jackson shorts in other collections 🤷
Andrzej started reading Dark Tales by Shirley Jackson
Great stuff so far
Andrzej finished reading In That Endlessness, Our End by Gemma Files
COME CLOSER, FRIEND. LET ME TELL YOU A STORY.
Heard the one about the Airbnb …
Excellent stuff. The characters and world are so utterly convincing that when the uncanny moments hit, they really hit.
Andrzej rated Haunting Season: 3 stars
Haunting Season by Sara Collins, Bridget Collins, Natasha Pulley, and 2 others
Andrzej finished reading Songs of a Dead Dreamer and Grimscribe by Thomas Ligotti (Penguin Classics)
Thomas Ligotti’s debut collection, Songs of a Dead Dreamer, and his second, Grimscribe, permanently inscribed …
I actually read this a couple of years ago, but I picked it up to reread the Christmas story — beautiful stuff
Andrzej started reading Gateways to Abomination by Matthew M. Bartlett
Not sure what to expect here, but it's short and I'm not up to much else, it being Christmas Day
Andrzej finished reading The October Country by Ray Bradbury
The October Country is a 1955 collection of nineteen macabre short stories by American writer …
Excellent. I thoroughly enjoyed that
Andrzej commented on The October Country by Ray Bradbury
The October Country is a 1955 collection of nineteen macabre short stories by American writer …
'Skeleton' is such a great little story — inventive, funny, and creepy to boot 👍
Andrzej commented on The October Country by Ray Bradbury
The October Country is a 1955 collection of nineteen macabre short stories by American writer …
The thing about Ray Bradbury is that over the course of a page he'll throw ten poetic devices at you, and at least one of them will make you wonder how it ever made the final draft, but the other nine will be brilliant. It's that special sort of sloppiness that you only get from a true virtuoso.
Andrzej rated The Martian Chronicles: 5 stars
The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury
This is a collection of science fiction short stories, cleverly cobbled together to form a coherent and very readable novel …
Andrzej rated Something Wicked This Way Comes: 5 stars
Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury
The other side of Dandelion Wine, referring to some of the same characters in a gloomier, more frightening way. A …
Andrzej started reading The October Country by Ray Bradbury
The October Country is a 1955 collection of nineteen macabre short stories by American writer …
As much as I enjoyed reading M. R. James, I think I overdosed a little reading the whole collection, so I'm very much looking forward to a slight change of pace with Ray Bradbury!
I loved Something Wicked This Way Comes and The Martian Chronicles, and afaik the received wisdom is that Bradbury is at his best with one-off short stories, so I have high hopes for this collection 🤞