Tag: Classic supernatural
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R is for Rocket
Overview: This was amazing. Overview with more than three words: Published in 1962 by Doubleday (and subsequently as the version I read, a popular Bantam paperback), R is for Rocket serves as a curated introduction to the lyrical prose and speculative imagination of Ray Bradbury. While many of the seventeen stories had appeared in earlier Read more
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The October Country
Ray Bradbury’s The October Country, first published in 1955, serves as a definitive cornerstone of American gothic and macabre literature. This collection contains nineteen stories, most of which were revised from his earlier work in Dark Carnival. The anthology captures Bradbury’s transition from the visceral pulp horror of the 1940s to the more psychological, poetic prose that Read more
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The White People and Other Weird Stories
Review: I really wanted to love this. But, I liked a few of the stories and some were just way too wordy, way too long, and at the end nothing happens. Like lesbian porn, there’s something missing and it leaves one unsatisfied. Machen is pronounced to rhyme with blacken. Not knowing this, I was pronouncing Read more