There are two distinct types of stories here: horror stories, and melancholy contemporary fiction stories. Of the horror stories, the best was "Windeye" by Brian Evenson. Of the m.c.f. stories, the best was "How" by Roxane Gay. I wish this had had more horror stories than it did, but I always feel churlish saying that about a genre-adjacent collection. Many of the m.c.f. stories didn't appeal to me at all.
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The Beach Reader rated Department of Mind-Blowing Theories: 3 stars
The Beach Reader rated Damnable Tales: 4 stars
The Beach Reader rated The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Cartoonist: 3 stars
The Beach Reader rated The Sandman: Act II: 4 stars
The Sandman: Act II by Dirk Maggs, Neil Gaiman (The Sandman Audible Original #2)
Enter the Dreaming again as the blockbuster audio adaptation of "the greatest epic in the history of comic books" continues …
The Beach Reader rated Men, Women, and Chain Saws: 3 stars
The Beach Reader rated Damage Control: 4 stars
The Beach Reader rated Eternity's Wheel: 3 stars
Neil Gaiman, Michael Reaves, Mallory Reaves: Eternity's Wheel (Paperback, 2016, HarperTeen)
Eternity's Wheel by Neil Gaiman, Michael Reaves, Mallory Reaves
It has been two years since Joseph Harker first Walked between dimensions, met the alternate forms of himself, and formed …
The Beach Reader rated She-Hulk. Here today--: 2 stars
The Beach Reader rated She-Hulk Vol. 5: 3 stars
The Beach Reader rated She-Hulk, Vol. 3: 4 stars
She-Hulk, Vol. 3 by Dan Slott, Stan Lee, John Byrne, and 2 others
The Beach Reader rated Klara and the Sun: 3 stars
Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
From her place in the store, Klara, an Artificial Friend with outstanding observational qualities, watches carefully the behavior of those …
The Beach Reader reviewed The new black by Richard Thomas
The New Black is a collection of 20 neo-noir stories exemplifying the best authors currently …