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Blue World (1989)

Tekijä: Robert R. McCammon

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Masterful and macabre short fiction from the New York Times-bestselling author of Swan Song.   Father John has lived his whole life without knowing a woman's touch. Hard at first, his self-denial grew easier over time, as he learned to master his urges with a regimen of prayer, cold showers, and jigsaw puzzles. That changed the day that Debra Rocks entered his confessional. A rough-talking adult film actress, she has come to ask him to pray for a murdered costar. Her cinnamon perfume infects Father John, and after she departs he becomes obsessed. Around the corner from his church is a neon-lit alley of sin. He goes there hoping to save her life before he damns himself.   That is "Blue World," the novella that anchors this collection of chilling stories by Robert R. McCammon. Although monsters, demons, and murderers fill these pages, in McCammon's world the most terrifying landscape of all is the barren wasteland of a lost man's soul.… (lisätietoja)
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    GWoloszczuk: Mccammon's Short stories are very reminiscent of this collection of early King stories
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A collection of short fiction which ranges from a slightly sentimental story set in a prison to extreme surreal dystopia and post-apocalypse fiction. The main part of the book is taken up with a novella which rather unbalances the collection as it deals with the passion that a Catholic priest develops for a woman who is a porn star and cocaine addict, and is being stalked by a psychotic killer who murders porn stars. A certain character appears who is obviously set up to be a victim and the whole thing is rather predictable and odd.

The better stories are 'Yellowjacket Summer' about a truly creepy town beset by wasps, and 'Something Passed by' in which the laws of physics have become crazily upturned. 'Doom City' is a sort of Groundhog Day in hell. 'Night Calls the Green Falcon' is a somewhat sentimental but better nuanced story of an old man who dusts off his superhero costume - he played one in serials in the cinema up until the early 1950s (the book was published in 1988) - to bring a friend's killer to justice.

Overall, a 3-star read on balance. ( )
  kitsune_reader | Nov 23, 2023 |
This is the first McCammon I read (though I followed it up with Usher's Passing). Blue World is a wide ranging selection of his short fiction work from the 80s and early 90s, plus the titular novella.
The collection is a pretty broad cross-section of his short fiction; horror (He'll Come Knocking), thriller/slasher (Blue World), science fiction (Red House), fantasy (Nightcrawler), and Twilight Zone-esque (I Scream Man) stories are all represented here. The influence of script writing on McCammon's style is evident across genres, which helps keeps the pacing as reasonably fast a short story tends to demand. It also lends itself to satisfying endings, though ones that do not always explain what we've just experienced (Doom City).
While I have seen complaints the stories fail to address more timeless themes in favor of what would be more commercially successful at the time, I feel that's definitely an off-base claim. Like Michael Shea, a lot of our main characters to tend be from the working class or poor who are sometimes driven to criminalized behaviors based on that (Makeup), and though the trappings of those experiences may have shifted over the decades, their struggles are as easy to identify with now as then. Though main characters are almost all white, and for the most part men, we do have a number of strong female characters (Yellachile's Cage, Night Calls the Green Falcon, Blue World), and main characters ranging in age (Yellowjacket Summer) from children to the elderly (Night Calls the Green Falcon). McCammon does a masterful job of creating evoking strong relatable emotions and creating sympathetic (though not always easily identified with) characters in the limited space he has for each story.
I would normally single out strong shorts from the collection, but with the possible exception of Pin they're all standouts. ( )
  jdavidhacker | Aug 4, 2023 |
This has set on my shelf for ages....I'm not the biggest fan of short stories, generally speaking. But, alas, it was time to break it open...my favorite time of year is here, my fall reading has began.

I ended up really enjoying this! It is now on my list of fave short story anthologies. I was rather disturbed by 2 of the stories...and let me tell you, thats not an easy feat. I have been reading horror since childhood and often read " shock horror", but McCammon managed to do it here.

Each of the stories were unique and interesting and didn't suffer from the vagueness and lack of development that I find with most short stories. A well written, fun and entertaining read. ( )
  Jfranklin592262 | Oct 3, 2022 |
Blue World by Robert McCammon is a collection of his early stories and one novella, Blue World. The stories are excellent with a few: Chico, PIN, Yellowjacket Summer, Nightcrawlers, Yellachile, are almost perfect horror stories. Chico and PIN are my favorites. The other stories are good too, just not as perfect.

However what lowered this from 5 to 4 stars was inclusion of the long novella Blue World itself. I thought the plot was formulaic: black night, fallen white night, female fallen angel, white night reforms fallen angel and achieves his salvation in the process. Courtly love is all that is available in the end.

One thing I have read somewhere is there are only 9 basic plots possible (Don't quote me on the number, it might be as many as 12.). The article stated that part of great fiction is the author makes you think his novel/story is not one of those 9 plots. I didn't get that here.

Well worth a read for McCammon's early stories. ( )
  Gumbywan | Jun 24, 2022 |
I'm often hot and cold with short story collections. Various author collections seem to bug me the most, because the quality tends to be all over the place. And with single-author collections such as this one, well, it's often hit or miss. Either the author kicks ass, or they suck.

Thankfully, I think, for the most part, McCammon kicked some serious ass here.

This is my introduction to McCammon the short story author. And, to be honest, he should do more of it. There's the odd one that didn't quite stick with me, but for the most part, these were absolutely excellent. Included in this particular edition by Subterranean Press, I got three additional stories, that fit in perfectly with the previously published ones.

In fact, the weakest link in the collection--and the reason for four stars instead of five--is the title story. It was the unlikely mashing of a psychopathic killer (who, at times, seemed to be forgotten by the author), a Catholic priest and a "porno" actress. For me, the story, at something like 170 pages, was about three times as long as it needed to be, and likely due to that fact, the material often seemed to hit cringe-worthy notes when it came to Debbie's (the porn girl) naivete or downright stupidity at times, as well as priest John's painfully overwrought reactions to her.

But there's a few stories in here that, even on their own, would be worth the price of admission. Excellent book, overall. ( )
  TobinElliott | Sep 3, 2021 |
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McCammon skillfully weaves elements of horror and adventure with a variety of writing styles to create 13 exceedingly readable pieces. Travel through his universe and meet such inhabitants as Chico, a special child who exacts subtle revenge on his mother's abusive boyfriend, or a Vietnam vet whose deadly nightmares become real. The pi ece de r esistance , especially in terms of character development, is the novella "Blue World." Father John Lancaster discovers that he has put his faith and his life in peril when he falls in love with a porn star who is being stalked by a deranged serial killer. A powerful, well-written collection.
 

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Masterful and macabre short fiction from the New York Times-bestselling author of Swan Song.   Father John has lived his whole life without knowing a woman's touch. Hard at first, his self-denial grew easier over time, as he learned to master his urges with a regimen of prayer, cold showers, and jigsaw puzzles. That changed the day that Debra Rocks entered his confessional. A rough-talking adult film actress, she has come to ask him to pray for a murdered costar. Her cinnamon perfume infects Father John, and after she departs he becomes obsessed. Around the corner from his church is a neon-lit alley of sin. He goes there hoping to save her life before he damns himself.   That is "Blue World," the novella that anchors this collection of chilling stories by Robert R. McCammon. Although monsters, demons, and murderers fill these pages, in McCammon's world the most terrifying landscape of all is the barren wasteland of a lost man's soul.

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