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Day: October 29, 2018

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SHORTS: Jackson, Rucker, Ochse, Armstrong

Our reviews of free and inexpensive short fiction available on the internet. For this year’s Halloween week column, we offer a selection of haunted house stories. (The first story is admittedly pushing the boundaries of that classification, but it was too good to leave out.)

 

“The Man in the Woods” by Shirley Jackson (published 2014, free in The New Yorker)

Christopher, a college student, leaves school one day for reasons he can’t even articulate to himself, and walks for days through towns and fields,


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October 29th, 2018. | | , | SFF Reviews | 2 comments |

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The Soul Eater: Moby Dick in space

The Soul Eater by Mike Resnick

Nicobar Lane is a hunter. People hire him to acquire (dead or alive) exotic species from all over the galaxy. They pay him a lot of money to do this and he’s very successful. But there’s one creature who he refuses to hunt: a creature known by different cultures throughout the galaxy as the Soul Eater, or the Dreamwish Beast, or Starduster. People say this creature lives in space, is not affected by black holes, and perhaps even eats them! Nicobar thinks the beast is a legend and that it’s not worth his time to go looking for it.


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The Happening: Respectful awe

The Happening directed by M. Night Shyamalan

Following the inanity of the borderline train wreck that was 2006’s Lady in the Water, writer/producer/director M. Night Shyamalan rebounded in a very big way with his next film, 2008’s The Happening. His contribution to the type of eco-horror film that was all the rage in the 1960s and ’70s — I’m thinking of such films as 1963’s The Birds, 1972’s Frogs, 1977’s Kingdom of the Spiders and 1978’s The Swarm …


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