Michael Wehunt

Wehunt's brand of horror sneaks up on you in a fashion that feels almost languid, lush with gorgeous prose and striking images, and then when the uncanny truly slips in--or hits you over the head in some few cases--the shift is all the more powerful. That's not to say that the moves into the uncanny are unearned or unwelcome; whether they come early or late in any given story, sneaking up on the reader or feeding themselves out as the fabric of a story little piece by little piece, the little drifts of horror are the very backbone of this collection. A few of the stories kept me up later than I should have stayed up, just because I knew what a bad idea it might be to fall asleep with them in my head.

The stand-outs here, for me, were "Greener Pastures" (the title story), "Onanon", "October Film Haunt: Under the House", and "A Thousand Hundred Years". At a different time, I think I'd have listed "Beside me Singing in the Wilderness" as another favorite. And while some few of the stories didn't land quite so well for me, or felt a little too ambiguous/abstract in their wrap-up for me to ultimately want to revisit them, the stand-outs more than made up for those few.

Absolutely recommended.… (plus d'informations)