![]() ![]() Mile 81: classic King kids discover a car from hell. A few of my favorite stories from Bazaar: A variety of styles, degrees of horror and lack thereof, and the occaisonal ‘payoff’ ending that can make the story one long written joke with a great punchline, or an ending that would be too abrupt and never work in a novel or novella. Just plain old fun! What I love about this collection is similar they are to that original style. ![]() A King short story will take you back to the days of Ray Bradburry Theater, Tales from the Darkside, or the Twilight Zone. ![]() King shortstories are just plain fun, even ones filled with horrible events, a short story just doesnt get that character empathy so horrible outcomes aren’t as startling. I started reading King novels in the 80’s as a teen, and loved his short story collections as well. ![]()
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![]() Mónica Gomery’s Here is the Night and the Night on the Road is a vibrant collection populated with lives “drinking carbon out of the sky.” We confront an environmental logic here where “Each day… swabbed in light.” Gomery’s poetry consists of ache and wail outrage and grief love and tenderness, and most abundantly evident, the immense compassion that this poet delivers in a sweeping, resuscitative vision that honors both life and death. This is an exquisite study in the suddenness of numbered days and the radiant pain of living with love “tumbling forth.” This matters, Gomery declares, “The land on which we lost you is a colonized terrain, and it is hard to know exactly how that matters, except that it matters in every single way.” In the long tradition of poems about grief, Gomery is a necessary voice. The layers multiply into interwoven textures of grief: for the lover’s lost body and the disappearing world that sustains the lovers, a world of “collision, echo of colonization.” The violence of a car crash’s twisted metal is haunted by the violence of forests torn up for roads-both victims of the same hand of man. In Here is the Night and the Night on the Road she asks “How do you get dressed to go watch someone die?” when “All I can feel is the you-hole, the place where you aren’t.” This is a book witnessing love and loss and love again. ![]() Here is the Night and the Night on the Road by Mónica Gomery. ![]() ![]() One night, a scarecrow is found hanging outside her bedroom window with a knife in its head. And she's starting to receive threatening phone calls. A young girl was murdered there a year ago on Halloween-in her bedroom! The worst part is Martha bears a resemblance to the dead girl. After Martha makes some friends at school she finds out that her new home (the old Bedford house) is supposedly haunted. Also living in the house is Sally's son, (Martha's stepbrother) Conor, who is a year older than sixteen-year-old Martha. It's dark and creepy with shadows in the corners, her bedroom is abnormally cold, and she feels as if she's being watched. When Martha and her Dad arrive at the house, which is isolated in the woods, Martha really hates the house. Martha's Dad has just remarried, and his new wife, Sally, has found a perfect house for them to move into. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Franz Xaver Mozart made his concert debut in 1805, and Constanze billed her son professionally as “Wolfgang Mozart II.” Franz Xaver toured widely, but eventually settled in Lemberg, where he remained for almost 30 years before returning to his native Vienna. Wolfgang Mozart died shortly after Franz Xaver was born, so Constanze enlisted the aid of Haydn, Salieri, and Hummel, as the young boy’s teachers. Franz Xaver, however, did become a composer and performer, just as his father predicted. Of Mozart’s six children, only two survived: Franz Xaver and his older brother Carl Thomas, who had no interest in music. The baby’s mother, Constanze, claimed her husband predicted the child would become a musician when he noticed that it cried in tune with the music he was playing on the piano. Mozart nicknamed the new arrival “Wowi” and everyone said the baby was the spitting image of papa, even down to the distinctive Mozart ears. On today’s date in 1791 Mozart’s sixth child, christened Franz Xaver, was born in Vienna. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Interact with the community in good faith. Respect for members and creators shall extend to every interaction. Visionīuild a reputation for inclusive, welcoming dialogue where creators and fans of all types of speculative fiction mingle. We reserve the right to remove discussion that does not fulfill the mission of /r/Fantasy. ![]() We welcome respectful dialogue related to speculative fiction in literature, games, film, and the wider world. r/Fantasy is the internet’s largest discussion forum for the greater Speculative Fiction genre. For updated information regarding ongoing community features, please visit 'new' Reddit. Resource links will direct you to Wiki pages, which we are maintaining. Please be aware that the sidebar in 'old' Reddit is no longer being updated with information about Book Clubs and AMAs as of October 2018. ![]() ![]() Playwright Maya Ardal, like some other writers born in Iceland, left that country permanently and is now considered among Canadian playwrights. The films of these mysteries are even grimmer than the books. Arnaldur Indridasson, the most famous contemporary writer in Iceland, pens mysteries which are among the darkest, gloomiest, and most haunting ever written, the pinnacle of Nordic noir. ![]() ![]() “Hilarious” is certainly not a word that immediately comes to mind when thinking of Icelandic writing. “Can it really be him?…I almost feel as if I have seen a ghost, and I begin to imagine that died in the institution and his ghost has started knocking on people’s doors…I try to convince myself that what I thought I saw in this man’s movements was a mistake, I had only imagined the worst… there is only one person in the world who moves like this.”-Emil Halldorsson, on the stranger at his door. ![]() ![]() ![]() When his father awakes he is shocked at the neatness of the little hole and as the days passed and it was time for Mooch’s father to leave he tells his son how proud he was of his neat little hole. ![]() The turning point in the story is when Mooch’s father sneezes and wants to go to bed, in turn Mooch cleans up the dust to make his father feel better and proud of his little hole under the hill. Eventually Mooch’s father comments on the mess and slowly Mooch starts to tidy his little hole under the hill all to make his father happy. ![]() Mooch explains to his father that he likes to see all his things and mooch proudly gives his father a tour of his little hole under the hill. Clothes on door-knobs, lamps, pictures, and shoes on the table. Little does Mooch know that unlike him his father doesn’t like clutter and isn’t impressed with where mooch stores his items. One day Mooch receives a letter and reads that his father will shortly be visiting him and his little hole under the hill. Mooch the rat lives in a little hole under the hill and loves his place and all that is stored inside. ‘Mooch the Messy’ Written by Marjorie Sharmat and excellently illustrated by Ben Shecter. ![]() ![]() ![]() Eden, follows Gregory Reeves has fallen in love with a woman he’s never met. ![]() Enter from stage left, Lysander Locke, Shakespeare tragedian on his way to Deadwood. THE SOLDIER'S HEART, an enchanting novella by Sarah M. ![]() While they spend long days and nights working together, Colm, a shy man, realizes he can't hide the truth of his feelings for Ozzie. He pleads for Ozzie's help at the hospital. When the post surgeon leaves for an extended week, Colm must handle several medical emergencies on his own. As a maid to the lieutenant colonel's wife, Ozzie is no wilting flower when it comes to hard work. His only regret is leaving behind exotic Ozzie Washington, easily the prettiest woman on the post. In BREAK A LEG, a charming story by two-time Rita Award winner Carla Kelly, hospital steward Colm Callahan is ready to move away from army life at Fort Laramie. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Bruce begins to wonder if the shady characters in Nelson's novels were more fact than fiction. Who would want Nelson dead? The local police are overwhelmed with the aftermath of the storm and in no condition to handle the case. But evidence suggests that the storm wasn't the cause of Nelson's death - he had received several mysterious blows to the head. One of the victims is Nelson Kerr, a friend of Bruce's who wrote timely political thrillers. The hurricane is devastating: homes and condos are levelled, hotels and storefronts ruined, streets flooded, and a dozen people are killed. Amongst them is Bruce Cable, proprietor of Bay Books in downtown Santa Rosa. Most residents flee but a small group of diehards decide to ride it out. Is a Perfect Storm the Perfect Time for a Murder? 'Another gem from John Grisham' Observer When Hurricane Leo threatens Florida's Camino Island, the Governor is quick to issue an evacuation order. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Told from an American girl’s perspective, this story about how death teaches us to live and how love endures through our memories will capture the hearts of readers everywhere. Only an orphan named Memory, who knows about love and loss, can teach Clare how to laugh with the moon. ![]() When Clare’s new friends take her on an outing to see the country, the trip goes horribly wrong, and Clare must face another heartbreak head-on. Soon, though, she becomes immersed in her new surroundings and impressed with her fellow students, who are crowded into a tiny space, working on the floor among roosters and centipedes. Stuck with her father, a doctor who seems able to heal everyone but Clare.Ĭlare feels like a fish out of water at Mzanga Full Primary School, where she must learn a new language. Stuck in the African jungle for sixty-four days without phone reception. Stuck in denial about her mother’s recent death. Laugh with the Moon is on the Texas Bluebonnet Award Master List. ![]() |