)top-tier evenson, this slim volume contains horror, strangeness, and beautiful writing in equal volume.
Both the title story and “Watson’s Boy” take familiar settings — a frontier wasteland, a labyrinthine castle … turns out the rest of the book might not be as good as those but very nearly.
Please try again. CONTAGION AND OTHER STORIES shows Brian Evenson at his best—taunt sentences, sharp dialogue, and deep psychological subtext. Fiction. After the words stop, Evenson's horror keeps churning somewhere under your skin. Welcome back. Evenson doesn't write like that. Song for the Unraveling of the World I have been meaning to go back and read some of Evenson's early work and thanks to this book I got a chance.My first encounter with Evenson was his short story "Prairie," in a horror anthology, and I have been hooked since.
CONTAGION AND OTHER STORIES is one of Brian Evenson's most sought after and lauded collections of fiction. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. It has been out of print for nearly a decade. Published In the And I, for one, worried that it might erupt as black blood through my pores.These stories cannot be properly categorized under the horror genre, horrifying though they be. It can be read through in an afternoon, and I wanted it to last longer.A collection of Evenson's earlier works, this slim volume mixes the literary style of Altmann's Tongue with the heavier weirdness and confusion that is a trademark of his later work. Let us know what’s wrong with this preview of But I will give it the benefit of the doubt. As ever, Evenson is a great recommendation if you like dark fiction.Some good stories but finding I prefer his novels. CONTAGION AND OTHER STORIES is one of Brian Evenson's most sought after and lauded collections of fiction.
In stories like the O. Henry Award-winning "Two Brothers," Evenson takes his readers into a world that is at once Start by marking “Contagion and Other Stories” as Want to Read: Throughout, Evenson's immaculate prose draws us mercilessly up to confront troubled and troubling lives that, astoundingly, are no less human than our own.It's hard to say which Evenson short story collection is my second favorite. Evenson's horror doesn't offer you that "Whew!" I should have noticed when this was re-released by my old friend Duncan Barlow at Astrophil press in 2011.
(the bit about the dead dog really bothered me.
The self-acclaimed language specialist of "The Polygamy of Language" indiscriminately blends linguistics with murder. Prime members enjoy FREE Delivery and exclusive access to music, movies, TV shows, original audio series, and Kindle books.
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Whether it’s magic schools, dystopias, paranormal love stories, or contemporary explorations of important real-life issues, young adult books a...Mapping a literary space uniquely his own, Evenson's CONTAGION AND OTHER STORIES pursues to a new level the crepescular and delirious exploration begun in his acclaimed and controversial ALTMANN'S TONGUE. 'watson's boy' in particular.Undoubtedly there are some gems in this collection. Find all the books, read about the author, and more. So says Steven Soderbergh's Contagion, the 2011 film which tracks the outbreak of a virus from China which goes on to cause a pandemic and societal collapse. Contagion is one of those. Fiction. extremely graphic short stories that toys with the roles of language and space in literature. I should have noticed when this was re-released by my old friend Duncan Barlow at Astrophil press in 2011. after the words stop. It has been out of print for nearly a decade. + No Import Fees Deposit & $11.48 Shipping to United Kingdom A horror story is like a roller coaster: no matter how frightening it is you know that it's safe, that the ride will end. Song for the Unraveling of the World Ships from and sold by Amazon.com.
Taken as a whole however, and in light of previous story collections I've read by the author, dude is starting to wear thin on me a little bit.Hmm. These stories cannot be properly categorized under the horror genre, horrifying though they be. Evenson doesn't write like that. He has an economy with language rivalling Cormac McCarthy's at times. Other stories are about madness and religious obsession, but they all share the same spare style, rendering each impact distilled and strong. Some of the stories don't catch hold as well as others, but overall, in bleak tones and economic prose, Evenson lays bare the damaging inter-relatedness of language, religion, and violence.This shopping feature will continue to load items when the Enter key is pressed. You're listening to a sample of the Audible audio edition.Something went wrong. A horror story is like a roller coaster: no matter how frightening it is you know that it's safe, that the ride will end. Several of the stories in "Contagion" have a darkly cultish feel to them: a preacher rewrites scripture and his children are unsure of how or whether to resist him; a madman discourses on the origin of language while going through a polygamists' camp. CONTAGION AND OTHER STORIES is one of Brian Evenson's most sought after and lauded collections of fiction.
United Kingdom the two brothers was probably the strongest of the bunch and i enjoyed its sort of dreamlike quality and the leveled structure of the story (which is hard to explain), but i did not like the book on the whole.
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This was different.