THE JUNGLE a short story by Conrad Williams (2013)
Copy 157 of a signed limited edition of 200 copies
Purchased this week from NIGHTJAR PRESS
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The Des Lewis Gestalt Real-Time Reviews 
Crossing themes with the threatened or enhanced child from the involving-impasto effects of painting as locked in a previous Nightjar of various colours, this wonderful story is of an artist, naive like Henri Rousseau, who lives in the ‘homeskull’ of a one bedroom flat with working-at-home wife, and a toddler son Fred. This protagonist is, for me, physically paranoiac, if there is such an expression. Scared of his own shadow? Overly protective. The eventuality of a jungle adventure gymnasium to shelter from the rain with Fred, as crossed with a nightmare version of the first painting he had not been able to sign, makes a fitting climax to all seven reviews of Nightjars I have just conducted one by one in real-time.
I fondly remember sharing with this author the story contents list of a horror fanzine called ‘Dementia 13’ in the late 1980s.
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