Author: Brian Evenson
Series: Come Join Us By the Fire #1
Narrator: Ramon de Ocampo
Unabridged: 4 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Tor Nightfire
Published: 02/11/2020
BRIAN EVENSON is the author of a dozen books, most recently the story collection The Glassy, Burning Floor of Hell (2021). His penultimate collection, Song for the Unraveling of the World (2019), won the Shirley Jackson Award and the World Fantasy Award and was a finalist for the Ray Bradbury Prize. Other recent books include A Collapse of Horses (2016) and The Warren (2016). His novel Last Days won the ALA-RUSA award for Best Horror Novel of 2009. His novel The Open Curtain was a finalist for an Edgar Award and an International Horror Guild (IHG) Award. His 2003 collection The Wavering Knife won the IHG Award. He is the recipient of three O. Henry Prizes, an NEA fellowship, and a Guggenheim Award. His work has been translated into more than a dozen languages. He lives in Los Angeles and teaches at CalArts.
review to come! this, and other free short horror stories from nightfire can be found here.......more
This isn't a story per se which is why I have knocked off one star, it is more of an exercise in surrealism that tapers off without any real meaning. I have learned to expect this from Brian Evenson (and i am. Not a fan of this technique) but it world better in an ultrashort piece than in his longer......more
I'm torn between three and four stars on this one. On the one hand, it is really well written. On the other hand, I feel like it both starts and finishes in the middle. I would have loved to see more of a build-up, and likewise, I wouldn't have minded seeing how far Brian Evenson could push the plot......more
