My god. This one is something special. William Rasmussen's comment about how creepy this piece is because the ghoul is turning toward you, as if just noticing you, is right on. Wonderful.
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Author: Pam Gittlitz The illustrations are amazing and help tell the stories. I liked half the stories contained inside. The collaberative stories, I felt, didn't work as well as they could have, but the solo short stories were genuinely creepy, especially "Mr. Hands", which truly makes one think about their children.
Author: geoff guthrie This is an eclectic set of stories by Gary Braunbeck with The Big Hollow, a novel sized story written with Alan M. Clark, taking up about 80 percent of the book. Unfortunately The Big Hollow wasn’t that great of a story, it tells of a group of dead people tied in purgatory to a local cemetery. It’s basic character building throughout the story, and honestly their stories are not that exciting. Nevertheless it starts to get stronger toward the end and ties up nicely. So I ended up finishing with a pleasant feeling.
The best story of the bunch is called Mr. Hands, this novella story has been fleshed out into a novel sized story in 2007. But here is its inception, a chilling tale of a woman whose child was killed and she brings out a horror to take vengeance. It all goes wrong, though, and you end up taking sides with the child killers. It’s a very intelligently written story. Another story was a murder mystery that I must admit must not have hit me at all as it’s not memorable in the slightest. But the last major novella was called The Circus of Central Motion, a sad but hilarious tale told in first-person and poetical segments. It’s a real fun story to read and I was surprised to see Gary do some humor because he can be so somber at times.
This is some early writing for Braunbeck, and as a result this collection is a hit or miss, some very good stuff like Mr., Hands, and some average stuff as in The Big Hollow. Alan Clark fully illustrates this book and it makes for a wonderful book. The book is worth the price for the craftsmanship of the book and the artwork alone. Overall I was pleased with the read even though the stories were uneven.
