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Chiral Mad 2 is an anthology of psychological horror containing twenty-eight short stories by established authors and newcomers from around the world. Featuring the imaginations of David Morrell, Ramsey Campbell, Jack Ketchum, John Skipp, Gary A. Braunbeck, Mort Castle, Gene O'Neill, Gary McMahon, Lucy A. Snyder, Thomas F. Monteleone, and many others, with an introduction by Michael Bailey.Table of Contents:01. Another Man's Bones - Mason Ian Bundschuh02. Mnemonicide - James Chambers03. Flowers Blooming in the Season of Atrophy - Max Booth III04. The Counselor - Mort Castle05. Dear Boy - John Biggs06. Interference - Andrew Hook07. Picture-in-Picture - Dustin LaValley08. When I Was - Thomas F. Monteleone09. Tight Partners - Gene O'Neill10. Approaching Lavender - Lucy A. Snyder11. Orange is for Anguish, Blue for Insanity - David Morrell12. In the Eyes of the Beholder - Ann K. Boyer13. Empathy - John Skipp14. Versions - E. L. Kemper15. The Tended Field of Eido Yamata - Jon Michael Kelley16. Playing with Fire - Richard Thomas17. Indian Summer - Philip C. Perron18. Blood Women - Usman T. Malik19. Whitechapel - P. Gardner Goldsmith20. The Chute - Gary McMahon21. Scavenging - Kevin Lucia 22. The Word - Ramsey Campbell 23. Welcome Home, All You Uninvited - Erik T. Johnson24. The Geminis - John Palisano25. A Guide to Etiquette and Comportment for the Sisters of Henley House - Emily B. Cataneo26. The Right Thing - Jack Ketchum27. Passing Affliction - Patrick O'Neill28. The Great Pity - Gary A. Braunbeck… (lisätietoja)
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This anthology was a Down Syndrome charity effort, as was [b:Chiral Mad|16122965|Chiral Mad|Michael Bailey|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1351810889s/16122965.jpg|21944474] its predecessor. These charity things can be somewhat dodgy in that there is a lot of "emerging talent" in the new stories and many of the A-list talents supply reruns. This collection however exceeded my expectations and actually got better as the book went on.
Fortunately for me I had only previously read one of the retreads, but there were only four out of 28 stories.
Advertised as psychological horror I would characterize this as plain contemporary horror, contemporary weird, a pretty wide array of stories, from the grim to the just bizarre. There are even a few ghosts thrown in but these too are of a decidedly modern ilk. There are no happy endings. I only thought two stories (out of 28) were weak, in being somewhat naive in plot and execution. Everything else was three or four star material, a few I would call five star. The book starts off with a bang and you never really get a letdown stretch.
My copy is a print on demand trade paperback and it has a few issues, an above average number of typos, missing words, etc. The usual reliance on machine proofreading errors. Not horrible, just noticeable. Somewhere along the line the ink jet printer got a little thirsty and left a number of pages with fuzzy gray instead of black letters. The entire font and layout left the book looking like something you printed out on you laser printer. Still, I'm a content kind of guy with this sort of thing so I didn't take down the rating for this kind of thing.
The cover art is fabulous but it still comes out looking like a textbook when you put it on the shelf.
Chiral Mad 2 is an anthology of psychological horror containing twenty-eight short stories by established authors and newcomers from around the world. Featuring the imaginations of David Morrell, Ramsey Campbell, Jack Ketchum, John Skipp, Gary A. Braunbeck, Mort Castle, Gene O'Neill, Gary McMahon, Lucy A. Snyder, Thomas F. Monteleone, and many others, with an introduction by Michael Bailey.Table of Contents:01. Another Man's Bones - Mason Ian Bundschuh02. Mnemonicide - James Chambers03. Flowers Blooming in the Season of Atrophy - Max Booth III04. The Counselor - Mort Castle05. Dear Boy - John Biggs06. Interference - Andrew Hook07. Picture-in-Picture - Dustin LaValley08. When I Was - Thomas F. Monteleone09. Tight Partners - Gene O'Neill10. Approaching Lavender - Lucy A. Snyder11. Orange is for Anguish, Blue for Insanity - David Morrell12. In the Eyes of the Beholder - Ann K. Boyer13. Empathy - John Skipp14. Versions - E. L. Kemper15. The Tended Field of Eido Yamata - Jon Michael Kelley16. Playing with Fire - Richard Thomas17. Indian Summer - Philip C. Perron18. Blood Women - Usman T. Malik19. Whitechapel - P. Gardner Goldsmith20. The Chute - Gary McMahon21. Scavenging - Kevin Lucia 22. The Word - Ramsey Campbell 23. Welcome Home, All You Uninvited - Erik T. Johnson24. The Geminis - John Palisano25. A Guide to Etiquette and Comportment for the Sisters of Henley House - Emily B. Cataneo26. The Right Thing - Jack Ketchum27. Passing Affliction - Patrick O'Neill28. The Great Pity - Gary A. Braunbeck
Fortunately for me I had only previously read one of the retreads, but there were only four out of 28 stories.
Advertised as psychological horror I would characterize this as plain contemporary horror, contemporary weird, a pretty wide array of stories, from the grim to the just bizarre. There are even a few ghosts thrown in but these too are of a decidedly modern ilk. There are no happy endings. I only thought two stories (out of 28) were weak, in being somewhat naive in plot and execution. Everything else was three or four star material, a few I would call five star. The book starts off with a bang and you never really get a letdown stretch.
My copy is a print on demand trade paperback and it has a few issues, an above average number of typos, missing words, etc. The usual reliance on machine proofreading errors. Not horrible, just noticeable. Somewhere along the line the ink jet printer got a little thirsty and left a number of pages with fuzzy gray instead of black letters. The entire font and layout left the book looking like something you printed out on you laser printer. Still, I'm a content kind of guy with this sort of thing so I didn't take down the rating for this kind of thing.
The cover art is fabulous but it still comes out looking like a textbook when you put it on the shelf.
After all this, I loved it. ( )