So Many Are the Drowned

"A reflective, sometimes-unsettling volume whose strongest moments linger."Josephson presents a collection of horror stories that favor mood, obsession, and metaphysical dread over narrative closure. These supernatural and psychological tales all share a fascination with institutions, belief systems, nostalgia, and the perilous inner lives of their solitary characters. Throughout, horror arises less from shock than from atmosphere: Empty churches, decaying bodies, abandoned ambitions, and unseen forces press in on characters who are often isolated by temperament or circumstance. Not every story lands with equal force, but many are quite eerie, and the entire collection effectively demonstrates a consistent interest in the costs of belief-religious, intellectual, or emotional-and how institutions that promise meaning often provide betrayal instead. Fans of thoughtful, low-key horror that emphasizes ideas over plot machinations will find much to admire."From the Kirkus reviewWhether reading tastes run to modern horror (Dark Horse of Shadow and Night, So Many are the Drowned Down on the Sea's Bed, Tell the Band to Play the Blues, The Photographs in the House, Cur(s)e the Disease, Hippodamia, Bone Saw and Bistoury), old-school nightmares (The Woman Whom the Trees Loved, Another for the Angels, Family Man, Those Who Are After My Blood, The Circuit of Summer Hills), speculative fiction (Sea of Tranquility, Poachers), Alfred Hitchcock Hour-type fare (A Small and Simple Garden), Twilight Zone-style efforts (Traveler in a Storm, The Boy in the Back Pew) or literary offerings (The Infection, The Well of Sacrifice, A Feeling of Frost), there is something here for everyone.

Pagina's: 350, Paperback, Joseph Ezzo