All of my WordPress sites marked private can be accessed by all WordPress Users by inserting their normal details and clicking ‘request access’.
Reviews also available in print: https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/rtrs-as-books/ and their second copies are shown at http://weirdmonger.livejournal.com/
My Real-Time Review of ‘The WEIRD’
I am enormously proud of Jeff VanderMeer’s public comment (from HERE):
Des–I just want to say that reading your real-time review has been a life-changing experience for me, following along, as you’ve managed to make fresh for me stories that from continual familiarity had been rendered invisible over the process of compiling the anthology. I also just want to thank you for your compassionate, sympathetic, and thoughtful approach to reading these stories. It’s not often an anthology editor gets such a thorough mega-review. I have some other thoughts about this real-time review that I’ll put into a blog post. But, in any event, thank you so much. – JeffV
.
Teatro Grottesco by Thomas Ligotti
How To Make Monsters by Gary McMahon
———————————————————————————-
(3 Feb 09): Tamar Yellin – Tales of the Ten Lost Tribes
(17 Feb 09): The Reach of Children – Tim Lebbon
(21 Feb 09): The Impelled & Other Head-Trips – Gary Fry
(7 Mar 09): World Wide Web And Other Lovecraftian Upgrades – by Gary Fry
(11 Mar 09): Beneath The Ground – edited by Joel Lane
(15 Mar 09): UNBECOMING And Other Tales Of Horror – by Mike O’Driscoll
(20 Mar 09): The Ephemera – by Neil Williamson
(25 Mar 09): Somnambulists – by Allen Ashley
(29 Mar 09): The Villa Désirée and Other Uncanny Stories – by May Sinclair
(11 Apr 09): Sanity and Other Delusions – by Gary Fry
(12 Apr 09): Sleepwalkers – Marion Arnott
(15 Apr 09): Islington Crocodiles – Paul Meloy
(20 Apr 09): Mindful of Phantoms – by Gary Fry
(6 May 09): The English Soil Society – by Tim Nickels
(6 May 09): The Cusp of Something – by Jai Clare
(15 May 09): Visits To The Flea Circus – by Nick Jackson
(27 May 09): Mostly Monochrome Stories – by John Travis
(30 June 09) Bull Running For Girls – by Allyson Bird
(6 July 09) The Terrible Changes – by Joel Lane
(9 July 09) Pictures of the Dark – by Simon Bestwick
(16 July 09) ANONthology (HarperCollins)
(20 July 09) Primeval Wood – by Richard Gavin
(25 July 09) Ghosts and Grisly Things – by Ramsey Campbell
(30 July 09) JANE by PF Jeffery
(30 July 09) The Exaggerated Man – by Terry Grimwood
(30 July 09) Cold to the Touch – by Simon Strantzas
(1 August 09) Bloody Baudelaire – by R.B. Russell
(2 August 09) The Nightfarers – by Mark Valentine
(17 August 09) Black Static – issue 12
(25 August 09): The Alsiso Project
(3 Sep 09): Extended Play
(4 Oct 09): Different Skins – by Gary McMahon
(17 Oct 09): CERN Zoo – the original DFL ‘Editor’s Commentary’ – the Collider made me do it!
(21 Oct 09): Black Static – issue 13
(23 Oct 09): All God’s Angels, Beware! – Quentin S Crisp
(21 Dec 09): Cinnabar’s Gnosis
(22 Jan 10): Slight review of Slights – by Kaaron Warren
(10 Feb 10): Dancing on Air – by Frances Oliver
(22 Feb 10): Children of Epiphany – by Frances Oliver
(22 Feb 10): Black Static – Issue 15
(18 Mar 10): Pieces of Midnight – by Gary McMahon
(1 Apr 10): THE SIXTH BLACK BOOK OF HORROR
(5 Apr 10): Back From The Dead
(11 Apr 10): Literary Remains – by R.B. Russell
(14 Apr 10): The Terror and the Tortoiseshell – John Travis
(23 Apr 10): Putting the Pieces in Place – R.B. Russell
(24 Mar 10): Xargos – by Frances Oliver
(26 Apr 10): Solar – Ian McEwan (3 May 10): Tragic Life Stories – by Steve Duffy (19 May 10): The Peacock’s Eye – by Frances Oliver (27 May 2010): “Remember You’re a One-Ball!” – by Quentin S. Crisp (1 June 2010): The Man Who Collected Machen & Other Stories – by Mark Samuels (5 June 2010): The Tourist Season – by Frances Oliver (10 June 2010): All Souls – by Frances Oliver (15 June 2010): Where The Heart Is (Gray Friar Press) (1 July 2010): The Conspiracy Against The Human Race by Thomas Ligotti (3 July 2010): Margaret – by PF Jeffery (3 July 2010): Dark Awakenings – by Matt Cardin (11 July 2010): The Silver Voices – by John Howard (12 July 2010): Groaning Shadows – by Paul Finch (25 July 2010): The Mascarons of the Late Empire & Other Studies by Mark Valentine (26 July 2010): The Wounds of Exile – by Reggie Oliver (1 Aug 2010): Null Immortalis – the Editor’s Commentary (bonus feature) (21 Aug 2010): Black Static – Issue 18 (13 Sep 2010): Interzone #230 (14 Sep 10): Lost Places – by Simon Kurt Unsworth (21 Sep 10): The Old Knowledge – by Rosalie Parker (25 Sep 10): The Places Between – by Terry Grimwood (27 Sep 10): Never Again edited by Allyson Bird & Joel Lane (31 Oct 10): Tenebrous Tales – by Christopher Barker (2 Nov 10): An Emporium of Automata – by D.P. Watt [7 Nov 10: RTR 2nd anniversary thoughts: Real-Time Reviewing as a ‘work-in-progress’ view of static art ] (7 Nov 10): Black Static #19 (23 Nov 10): Oblivion’s Poppy – by Colin Insole (26 Nov 10): Occultation – by Laird Barron (30 Nov 10): The Satyr – by Stephen J. Clark (2 Dec 10): The AUTUMN MYTH – by Joel Lane (2 Dec 10): The Coanda Effect – by Rhys Hughes (4 Dec 10) Mad Matinée in Baku – by Albert Power (7 Dec 10): Northwest Passages – by Barbara Roden (7 Dec 10): ‘The Sons of Ishmael’ by George Berguño (8 Dec 10): The Ghosts of Summer – by Frances Oliver (11 Dec 10): The Defeat of Grief – by John Howard [(12 Dec 10) Some recent thoughts from my RTRs] (22 Dec 10): GHOSTS (Crimewave Eleven) (24 Dec 10): Black Static #20 (2 Jan 11): Full Dark, No Stars – by Stephen King (14 Jan 11): War With The Newts (Karel Capek); The Best of Alan Coren (1980): The ark Tower I (Stephen King) (21 Jan 11): BFS Journal (Winter 2010) – My Real-Time Review (24 Jan 11): War With The Newts – by Karel Capek (24 Jan 11): The Dark Tower – The Gunslinger by Stephen King (25 Jan 11): I Wonder What Human Flesh Tastes Like by Justin Isis (1 Feb 11): The Dark Tower – The Drawing of the Three by Stephen King (7 Feb 11): Holiday – by M. Rickert (11 Feb 11): THE DRACULA PAPERS: Book I: The Scholar’s Tale by Reggie Oliver (18 Feb 11): THE DARK TOWER: The Waste Lands by Stephen King (19 Feb 11): The Peacock Escritoire – by Mark Valentine (26 Feb 11): Black Static #21 (8 Mar 11): Amerika – by Karim Ghahwagi (9 Mar 11): A Pallid Wave on Shores of Night – by Adam S. Cantwell (12 Mar 11): The Dark Tower – WIZARD AND GLASS by Stephen King (15 Mar 11): Revenants – by Daniel Mills (22 Mar 11): DARK MINDS – including an original story by GARY McMAHON (29 Mar 11): The Dark Tower – WOLVES of the CALLA by Stephen King (31 Mar 11): The Chômu ‘Man Who Collected Machen’ by Mark Samuels (8 Apr 11) The Life of Polycrates & Other Stories for Antiquated Children by Brendan Connell (8 Apr 11) SONG OF SUSANNAH – The Dark Tower by Stephen King (14 Apr 11) The Dark Tower: THE DARK TOWER by Stephen King (10 May 11) The Great Lover – by Michael Cisco (14 May 11): the abolisher of roses by Gary Fry (22 Jun 11): The Mauve Embellishments – by Charles Schneider (22 Jun 11): Link Arms With Toads! – Rhys Hughes (1 Jul 11): Allurements of Cabochon – by John Gale (4 Jul 11): The ‘Star’ Ushak – by Louis Marvick (7 Jul 11): Dying to Read – by John Elliott (9 Jul 11): Old Albert: An Epilogue – by Brian J Showers (11 Jul 11): The Bestiary of Communion – by Stephen J Clark (13 Jul 11): ‘The Exorcist’s Travelogue’ – by George Berguño (20 Jul 11): The Master in Café Morphine Edited by Dan T Ghetu (26 Jul 11): Real-Time Review of TQF #37 (Theaker’s Quarterly Fiction #37) (28 Jul 11): Do Not Pass Go – by Joel Lane (30 Jul 11): Jeanette – by Joe Simpson Walker (16 Aug 11): Black Static #24 (19 Aug 11): The Horror Anthology of Horror Anthologies (24 Sep 11): ‘The lslanders’ by Christopher Priest (30 Sep 11): Mrs Midnight and other stories by Reggie Oliver (11 Oct 11): Quiet Houses – by Simon Kurt Unsworth (25 Oct 11): Black Static #25 – Fiction Review (27 Oct 11): The Sense of an Ending – Julian Barnes (27 Oct 11): The Orphan Palace – Joseph S. Pulver, Sr. (31 Oct 11): 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami (2 Nov 11 to 3 Dec 11): The WEIRD: A Compendium of Strange and Dark Stories edited by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer (22 Nov 11): 11/22/63 (15 Dec 11): Alcyone – Colin Insole (15 Dec 11): The Secret Life of the Panda – Nick Jackson (20 Dec 11): Black Static #26 (21 Dec 11): Here Comes The Nice – Jeremy Reed (27 Dec 11): TARSHISHIM – Ron Weighell (6 Jan 12): Real-Time Review of TQF #39 (Theaker’s Quarterly Fiction #39) (21 Jan 12): INTERZONE #238 (24 Jan 12): Morbid Tales – Quentin S. Crisp (3 Feb 12): Shrike – Quentin S. Crisp (10 Feb 12): The Far Side of the Lake – Steve Rasnic Tem (my first ebook review) (17 Feb 12): Nowhere to Go – Iain Rowan (ebook) (17 Feb 12): COSMOS – Witold Gombrowicz (19 Feb 12): Black Static #27 (19 Feb 12): GHOSTS – R.B. Russell (22 Feb 12): American Morons – stories by Glen Hirshberg (25 Feb 12): Nightingale Songs – Simon Strantzas (27 Feb 12): The Haunted Grove – Tim Jeffreys (ebook) (29 Feb 12): Secret Europe by John Howard and Mark Valentine (3 Mar 12): BLACK HORSE and Other Strange Stories by Jason A. Wyckoff (10 Mar 12): WILD JUSTICE – Edited by Ellen Datlow (ebook) (16 Mar 12): Sangria in the Sangraal by Rhys Hughes (18 Mar 12): The Two Sams – Glen Hirshberg (ebook) (22 Mar 12): INTERZONE #239 (24 Mar 12): The Janus Tree and other stories – Glen Hirshberg (3 Apr 12): The Book of Bunk – by Glen Hirshberg (ebook) (24 Apr 12): Black Static #28 (24 Apr 12): Glory & Splendour – Alex Miles (ebook) (27 Apr 12): The Wind Through The Keyhole – Stephen King (28 Apr 12): Strange Epiphanies – Peter Bell (29 Apr 12): BFS Journal – Spring 2012 (3 May 12): Real-Time Review of TQF #40 (Theaker’s Quarterly Fiction #40) (12 May 12): Dadaoism – a new anthology (from Chômu Press) (11 Jun 12): This Hermetic Legislature (an anthology from Ex Occidente Press) (24 Jun 12): A Certain Slant of Light – Peter Bell (15 Jul 12): The Snowman’s Children – Glen Hirshberg Green Dolphin Country The Glastonbury Romance (23 Jul 12): The Ten Dictates of Alfred Tesseller by D.P. Watt (27 Jul 12): Black Static #29 (31 Jul 12): BOOK – The InkerMen (7 Aug 12): Real-Time Review of TQF #41 (9 Aug 12): The Truth Spinner – Rhys Hughes (14 Aug 12): Celebrant – by Michael Cisco FACIAL JUSTICE (1960) by L.P. Hartley Sweet Tooth by Ian McEwan (2 Sep 12): Instinct – ‘poems of desire’ by Joel Lane (10 Sep 12): Peel Back The Sky – Stephen Bacon (14 Sep 12): The Brothel Creeper – Rhys Hughes (1 Oct 12): A Cage For The Nightingale – Phyllis Paul (8 Oct 12): The Screaming Book of Horror Ed. Johnny Mains (14 Oct 12): Terror Tales of East Anglia Ed. Paul Finch . That may well be my very last real-time review. Quit while you’re still good at something, that’s my motto. (Been doing them solidly since 2008).
A new variation on a Real-Time Review in January 2013: FIRST NOVEL and QUILT by Nicholas Royle (HERE.) . MOST REAL-TIME REVIEWS ABOVE CAN BE OBTAINED IN BOOK FORM AND SIGNED BY ME HERE **NB: NON-REAL-TIME REVIEWS (from 22 Oct 2012 to Dec 2012)** GESTALT REAL-TIME REVIEWING FROM 2013 ONWARD HERE ======================================================== Special RTR Blocks “Can you recall the lasting effect of the most deeply disturbing collection of horror stories you’ve ever encountered? The narratives join hands…” — From THE USELESS by Dominy Clements (The Horror Anthology of Horror Anthologies) .
Regarding the various websites that I use for my real-time reviews, I try to make venues appropriate to the type of review being placed on them. Having said that, I feel justified in using my various book sites etc. for my real-time review venues (as a spin-off marketing) because I have always bought the books I review, i.e. as a normal customer (or, very rarely, it’s a contributor copy or exchanged it for another book). My over-riding love however is actually in doing the real-time reviews themselves for my own creative reading satisfaction, which, as merely another spin-off, hopefully benefits all the good literature I choose to review.
|
28 Aug 2012: This is the only comment I shall ever make about Rhys Hughes’
still evolving real-time review of THE LAST BALCONY book…
The review is highly entertaining and shows literary discernment! So far.  |
The Des Lewis Gestalt Real-Time Reviews 
No comments yet.