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Jason Brannon, Eric S. Brown & John Grover Space Stations and Graveyards First Published 2003 207 Pages |
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Reviewer M.D. Benoit March 2006 |
Space Stations and Graveyards is a collection of 24 short stories written by three horror writers. The stories are a mix of fantasy, science fiction, and dark fiction. They lead you from Kamikaze mannequins brought to life to a deadly intergalactic plague, to a children-eating devil, to Hell itself. Although the premises of some of the stories are clever and interesting, the writing does not deliver. The stories, for the most part, feel incomplete and unpolished. Throughout, there is an inordinate amount of guns and gun-downed people, and situations that mildly disgust rather than horrify. Each story is replete with clichés: zombies, werewolves, souls belonging to the devil, insidious plagues. The prose is somewhat overwrought ("Her yellow fangs glistened with the blood of infants cast upon the altar before her by the mindless and rotting dead.") There is little horror in the stories; or perhaps the real horror in them is that there is no hope, no possibility of redemption for any the protagonists. Even when they haven't created the problem, they are punished anyway, and the reader is left baffled to wonder why. |
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