A Literary Journal, Grimscribe Press, Autumn 2018
My previous reviews of VASTARIEN here.
Jon Padgett, Editor in Chief.
Work by s.j. bagley, Kurt Fawver, F.J. Bergmann, S.T. Joshi, Michael Uhall, Brooke Warra, Rayna Waxhead, S.L. Edwards, Tonya Liburd, Sean M. Thompson, Desiree Zamarano, Michael Cisco, Emmie Bristow, L’Erin Ogle, Sam Schreiber, Dr. Raymond Thoss, John Linwood Grant.
When I read this book, my thoughts will appear in the comment stream below….
Edited by Justin Steele & Sam Cowan
DIM SHORES 2017
The Convexity of Our Youth — Kurt Fawver
The Stories We Tell About Ghosts — A.C. Wise
In Canada — Michael Wehunt
The Second Door — Brian Evenson
The Christiansen Deaths — Daniel Mills
Dusk Urchin — Betty Rocksteady
The Gin House, 1935 — Livia Llewellyn
This Unquiet Space — Damien Angelica Walters
We Grope Together and Avoid Speech — Sunny Moraine
Heirloom — Brooke Warra
That Which Does Not Kill You — Lucy A. Snyder
Doused by Night — Simon Strantzas
We Are All Bone Inside — Kaaron Warren
Outside, A Drifter — Lisa L. Hannett
The Small Deaths of Skin and Plastic — Kristi DeMeester
When the Blue Sky Breaks — Scott Nicolay
Mirror Bias — Craig Laurance Gidney
Boisea trivittata — Anya Martin
Rock n’ Roll Death Squad — Michael Cisco
Alligator Point — S.P. Miskowski
Stranger in the House — Jeffrey Thomas
SPARAGMOS — Christopher Slatsky
Banishments — Richard Gavin
The Sound of Black Dissects the Sun — Michael Griffin
Live Through This — Nadia Bulkin
Distant Dark Places — Gemma Files
When I review these stories, my thoughts will appear in the comment stream below…
FEDOGAN & BREMER 2016
My previous reviews of this book’s editor, Joseph S. Pulver, Sr. – HERE
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Ramsey Campbell —– THE WORDS BETWEEN
Damien Angelica Walters — Take a Walk in the Night, My Love
Rhys Hughes ——— Confessions of a Medicated Lurker
Robert Levy —— CONVERSION
Maura McHugh — A Rebellious House
David Nickle —– The Long Dream
Janice Lee ——— Eyes Looking
Richard Gavin — Breathing Black Angles
S.P. Miskowski — Somnambule
Nathan Carson — The Projection Booth
Jeffrey Thomas — The Mayor of Ephemera
Nadia Bulkin —— Et Spiritus Sancti
Orrin Grey ——- Blackstone: A Hollywood Gothic
Reggie Oliver —- THE BALLET OF Dr. CALIGARI
Cody Goodfellow — BELLMER’S BRIDE, Or, THE GAME OF THE DOLL
Michael Griffin —– THE INSOMNIAC WHO SLEPT FOREVER
Paul Tremblay — Further Questions for the Somnambulist
Michael Cisco — The Righteousness of Conical Men
Molly Tanzer —– That Nature Which Peers Out in Sleep
Daniel Mills —– A SLEEPING LIFE
John Langan —- To See, To Be Seen
Gemma Files —– CALIGARISM
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When I start real-time reviewing these stories (hopefully before Christmas), my comments will appear in the thought stream below….
Just received this book.
DIM SHORES 2016
My previous reviews of this author HERE.
Any comments will be found in the thought stream below.
Lazy Fascist Press 2015
My previous reviews of Michael Cisco works HERE
If I real-time review this purchased book, my comments will be found in the thought stream below or by clicking on this post’s title above.
My purchased copy arrived today.
Edited by Kathe Koja and Michael Kelly (2015)
My other reviews of Undertow Publications HERE (including Volume One of above series)
Stories by Nathan Ballingrud, Siobhan Carroll, Julio Cortázar (Michael Cisco), Amanda C. Davis, K. M. Ferebee, Karen Joy Fowler, Cat Hellisen, Kima Jones, Caitlín R. Kiernan, Rich Larson, Carmen Maria Machado, Usman T. Malik, Nick Mamatas, Sunny Moraine, Jean Muno, Sarah Pinsker, Karin Tidbeck, Charles Wilkinson, Isabel Yap.
When I real-time review this anthology, my comments will be found in the thought stream below or by clicking on this post’s title above…
A real-time review by Des Lewis
AICKMAN’S HEIRS edited by Simon Strantzas
Undertow Publications 2015
Dedicated to the memory of Joel Lane 1963 – 2013
I have just received this book as purchased from Amazon UK.
Stories by: Brian Evenson, Richard Gavin, John Howard, David Nickle, D.P. Watt, Nadia Bulkin, Michael Cisco, Lynda E. Rucker, Michael Wehunt, John Langan, Helen Marshall, Malcolm Devlin, Daniel Mills, Nina Allan, Lisa Tuttle.
My other ‘reviews’ of Robert Aickman.
I intend to real-time this book and, when I do, it will appear in the thought stream – to be found below or by clicking on this post’s title above.
I have just received these two books as purchased from Amazon UK.
A SEASON IN CARCOSA – THE GRIMSCRIBE’S PUPPETS : edited by Joseph S. Pulver Sr.
Miskatonic River Press 2012 & 2013
Stories by Eddie M. Angerhuber, Laird Barron, Allyson Bird, Michael Cisco, Nicole Cushing, Gemma Files, Cate Gardner, Richard Gavin, Cody Goodfellow, Michael Griffin, Pearce Hansen, Michael Kelly, Joel Lane, John Langan, Livia Llewellyn, Richard A. Lupoff, Gary McMahon, Daniel Mills, Edward Morris, Scott Nicolay, Jon Padgett, Kristin Prevallet, Robert M. Price, Joseph S. Pulver Sr., Ann K. Schwader, Darrell Schweitzer, Robin Spriggs, Simon Strantzas, Anna Tambour, Jeffrey Thomas, Paul Tremblay, Kaaron Warren, Don Webb.
Links above are to my reviews.
In the comment stream below, I hope eventually to conduct a gestalt real-time review – by surname alphabetical order of authors.
MEMBER a novel by Michael Cisco
Chômu Press 2013
Purchased via Amazon UK.
My previous Chômu Press reviews: HERE.
**My gestalt real-time review of this work will take place in the comment stream below as and when I read each section that I read.**
There is no guarantee how quickly this review will be carried out, especially, now, at this point of not yet having started it, I am SCARED of this novel, not scared at being horrified, disturbed, transported etc. but at not being able to understand it…
The Des Lewis Gestalt Real-Time Reviews of Books 
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