A puzzle in the recent Charnel House catalog. Yes the materials are fine. Yes, the typesetting is better than most in the small press. Yes, the material selected is inspired. So what's the problem? Stefko in his first non-Koontz title in some time faces the problem of being merely adequate and not great. The ornaments found in the text are existing Charnel House dingbats. The pink cloth doesn't disguise that Stefko has used this linen before to greater effect in Odd Thomas and would...
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Author: geoff guthrie Exorcising Angels is a take by Lebbon and Clark to emulate one of their favorite authors: Arthur Machen. I’ll admit I had no idea who this author was, but besides his literary work he was famous for writing a fictional story in the London newspaper in WWI about a group of angels that helped defeat a German advance, which gave the English people some hope when there was little.
This story sets the stage in WWII, where a veteran soldier finds the author Arthur Machen and tells him he was there during that battle and Arthur needs to bring them back again, literally. This is more a mystery fantasy story than a horror novel, as it’s a wondrous story. I liked it, it was set in London during WWII, so it had a great backdrop and the story was well told.
There are also two short stories told in the vein of Arthur Machen: one by Lebbon and one by Clark. Lebbon’s was a horror story where a man who always loved digging finds that he finally digs up something that doesn’t make him happy, in fact it scares the hell out of him. The story by Clark is another wondrous story, of a man down on his luck who looks upon his old home when growing up and is able to see it in a different reality. Both of these stories were also good. For Lebbon it wasn’t one of his best, but it was still very enjoyable.
