Midnight Graffiti

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It did have a great line, jauntily poking fun at military/old man lingo: Goldilocks was SAC - Strategic Air Command - headquarters in Omaha, Nebraska; ETA was Estimated Time of Arrival.

A good number of the stories rely too heavily on Reagan/Bush-era shock factor, which is horribly dated and uninteresting in 2018. I highly recommend this book especially for people like myself who just got into reading and wanted to find some different authors, this is a quick way to get a snapshot of their various writing styles and genre. Come to think of it, there must have been a pretty good reason to quit reading anthologies in the first place, right? Several were interesting in portraying the point of view of part of society: Rainy Season, Say Hello Mister Quigley, Emerald City Blues, Rant. This was a wonderful collection of short stories mainly for the sheer variety of genres, styles, and moods.

She opens the anthology with an eight-page introduction, smugly explaining to her readers every obvious, bromidic reason that people are fascinated by horror. It specialized in all kinds of horror and weird fantasy fiction from authors both new and established. I especially love horror in short story form, so I was delighted to find a new collection - and thrilled to find it so gratifying. By using the Web site, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by the Terms and Conditions.

Rather shockingly, Neil Gaiman, who I usually couldn’t care one way or the other about, actually has one of the few worthwhile reads within, with “Murder Mysteries”, a roundabout indictment of God’s alleged Master Plan and borrowing heavily from the once-popular mythos of something referred to as 'heaven' and ‘angels’.

Some stories though, were a bit tough to get through and I found myself grinding through them to get to the next one. Says the World’s Smallest Man”, which chronicles the disastrous love life of a little person following in the footsteps of the esteemed Herve Villachaize; and “Rant” by Nancy Collins, which I’ve always liked due to its complete intolerance, madness, and otherwise nonsensical nature. I hunkered down in the uncomfortable confines of the stairwell in my usual train-car to distance myself from the bustling cretins of the world and whipped the relic known as ‘Midnight Graffiti’ out.

Among those I found to be particularly unreadable: "The Domino Man," "Salvation," and most of all, "Rant" by Nancy A. I used to read a lot of anthologies, and since I ride the train daily, I figured maybe I should resume this habit, seeing as that 15-50-page stories are perfect for my rides to and from work, and for my crappy lunch break, where I have nothing better to do than sit on a cold metal bench, alone, smoking and reading (occasionally interrupted by shoving some food down my gullet). Years of abusing inhalants couldn’t possible do the damage that this alleged story manages to do in a few ridiculous pages, even with the women cooing ‘Mmmmm’ for their cherished Domino Man. Many of the stories in this book were very fun to read, all of them being fairly enjoyable in their own sense.If you never had the chance to read it back in the day, this book collects some of the best stories to appear between its covers. Horror is the only medium that regularly succeeds in relating the momunmental strangness of the world in an accessible, cathartic manner.

This was perhaps the first thing I noticed as I sat down to read the book, and this wasn’t very promising. A collection of new horror stories includes contributions by Stephen King, Harlan Ellison, Dan Simmons, David J. Schow's "Bad Guy Hats," a detailed study of intraspecific predator-prey relationships and social ecology that will have you scrutinizing even the kindest-seeming of people with suspicion for years to come. Stories from Stephen King, Neil Gaiman, and an absolutely wonderful study on how Harlan Ellison process of writing from misheard words were a few of my favorites. Could I possibly be any more slick, digging the ‘cutting edge’ of contemporary fare while my foolish, conformist peers wasted their time scrutinizing some 100-year old, irrelevant piece of shit?I will give reasonable warning that the biggest difference with this collection from others I have read is the editing.