The Land of Laughs by Jonathan Carroll The Land of Laughs was written back in 1980 and I wonder how many readers know about it now. It’s written by Jonathan Carroll, who has written a number of offbeat modern fantasies, and I only know about it because it was selected by David Pringle for his […]
Read MoreStuart Starosta and Kat Hooper´s rating: 4, 5 | Jonathan Carroll | Audio, Stand-Alone | SFF Reviews | | 7 comments |
Bones of the Moon by Jonathan Carroll I know Bones of the Moon by Jonathan Carroll has gotten really good reviews, and is supposed to be the source material for the Sandman graphic novels by Neil Gaiman, but 50 pages in to the story, I didn’t care about any of the characters and the only […]
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Teaching the Dog to Read by Jonathan Carroll Anthony Areal, a forgettable, average man, trending toward wet noodle, is astonished one day to receive an anonymous gift in the mail containing the watch of his dreams: a gorgeous $9,000 Lichtenberg ‘Figure’ wristwatch. For a few minutes he’s afraid it is a dream: the watch will […]
Read MoreTadiana Jones´s rating: 4 | Jonathan Carroll | Short Fiction | SFF Reviews | | 8 comments |
There is so much free or inexpensive short fiction available on the internet these days. Here are a few stories we read this week: “The Loud Table” by Jonathan Carroll (Nov. 2016, free at Tor.com, 99c Kindle version) A group of retired old men meets every day at a coffee shop to hang out most of […]
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This week’s roundup of free short SFF on the internet contains some great old and new stories. “The Stolen Church” by Jonathan Carroll (2009, free at Conjunctions, also in The Woman Who Married a Cloud: The Collected Short Stories) Tina and Stanley, married for five years, are in the lobby of a nondescript apartment building, […]
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SHORTS: The annual Halloween edition. Our horror-themed column this week, reviewing some recent online short fiction works, features demon babies, slasher film heroines, ghosts and more. “Growing and Growing” by Rich Larson (2019, free at Nightmare Magazine) Ignacio and Hector are on their way home after a night of drinking when they find a baby […]
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White Apples & Glass Soup — (2002, 2005) Publisher: Vincent Ettrich, a genial philanderer, discovers that he has died and come back to life, but he has no idea why, or what the experience was like. Pushed and prodded by peculiar omens and personalities, he gradually learns that he was brought back by his one […]
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