I’m a huge fan of Ray Bradbury, but I actually found this in the process of hunting down a copy of Joe Hill’s By the Silver Water of Lake Champlain, which is included in this collection. Pretty much every story here is a winner, though, and definitely worth reading for Bradbury fans. Here’s a full list of everything included. I particularly enjoyed Lee Martin’s Cat on a Bad Couch, Jacqueline Mitchard’s Two Of A Kind, Charles Yu’s Earth: (A Gift Shop) and Julia Keller’s Hayleigh’s Dad. Overall, though, there aren’t any duds. And I really liked […]
More like the eye-roll in the dark
Wow, was this bad! The back of the book makes Ramsey Campbell (whom I’ve never even heard of) sound like some sort of British Stephen King. Maybe I just caught him on a bad day, but I thought Campbell’s writing was atrocious. That’s a double shame, really, because this could have been one hell of a story. The Grin in the Dark focuses on Simon Lester, a rather washed up film critic who has suddenly been given a miraculous opportunity to publish his film school […]