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Taverns of the Dead

Tekijä: Kealan Patrick Burke (Toimittaja)

Muut tekijät: Gary A. Braunbeck (Avustaja), Chaz Brenchley (Avustaja), PD Cacek (Avustaja), Jack Cady (Avustaja), Ramsey Campbell (Avustaja)23 lisää, Peter Crowther (Avustaja), Charles de Lint (Avustaja), Christopher Fowler (Avustaja), Neil Gaiman (Avustaja), Charles L. Grant (Avustaja), C. Bruce Hunter (Avustaja), Terry Lamsley (Avustaja), Roberta Lannes (Avustaja), Tim Lebbon (Avustaja), Edward Lee (Avustaja), THomas Ligotti (Avustaja), Thomas F. Monteleone (Avustaja), David Morrell (Avustaja), Yvonne Navarro (Avustaja), Norman Partridge (Avustaja), Tom Piccirilli (Avustaja), Nicholas Royle (Avustaja), Peter Straub (Avustaja), Melanie Tem (Avustaja), Steve Rasnic Tem (Avustaja), Vander Meer. Jeff (Avustaja), Chet Williamson (Avustaja), F. Paul Wilson (Johdanto)

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Taverns are timeless places, as familiar and welcome as the spirits that rest themselves atop the bar. Through the ages, in times of war, of famine, of love and death, they have stood in silence, radiating the promise of a soporific sojourn from the horrors and the worries of the outside world. We are drawn to them by this promise, by the notion that we may be protected and comforted by the light, the animated chatter and the warmth inside those smeared glasses. When we go there, it is with no fear at all.But taverns can be deadly places, where ghosts walk, the shadows talk and not everyone is your friend.With Taverns of the Dead, editor Kealan Patrick Burke has reserved a table and gathered together some of the finest writers in modern horror and dark fantasy to share their most terrifying bar stories with you, the unsuspecting patron.Pull up a chair and prepare to be regaled by tales of monsters, madness, ghosts and gore, in a place we know all too well...… (lisätietoja)
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Table of Contents:
"Introduction" by F. Paul Wilson
It's an introduction. (Basically says, 'yeah, I didn't have a story to contribute, so here's something so you can put my name in the credits.')

"Foreword" by Kealan Patrick Burke
It's a foreword.

** "The Lingering Scent of Apples" by P.D. Cacek
The writing here isn't bad, but this story gets a deduction for the overused 'ruined woman' stereotype, and a bigger deduction for the 'twist' ending, which didn't work for me at all. Too bad, because it started very promisingly - I liked the use of the POV of someone who's a totally self-centered jerk.

** "The Winner" by Ramsey Campbell
Seeking shelter from a storm, a man walks into a bar... and finds himself in a quite uncomfortable situation. This does a great job of illustrating the balance of the influence of social convention and circumstance against one's better instincts. It also probably contains the *nastiest* public restrooms ever seen in fiction. However, again, the end kind of fizzled out, feeling vague rather than horrific.

*** "The Souls of Drowning Mountain" by Jack Cady
A government worker is assigned to a remote and backward mining town - where he has a more experienced colleague show him the ropes - and encounters a violent protest against both dangerous working conditions and an untenable situation for living - and dying.

** "Kristine's Kwiet Korner" by Melanie Tem
A story which aims to bring the oft-used metaphor of victims of abuse being 'voiceless' into literal reality. It also depicts a disturbing and odd unspoken collusion between victims, all acting as if their situation as 'normal,' preventing others from improving their situation. It's ambitious, and the messages here are worthwhile - but the execution just didn't quite work for me.

**** "Shoggoth's Old Peculiar" by Neil Gaiman
A naive young Texan is on a rather disappointing self-guided walking tour of the British coast - when he randomly wanders into the village of Innsmouth. As a couple of friendly, if strange-looking, locals tell him, the one in the US was named after this one, the original.
One of the most entertaining and humorous homages to Lovecraft that I've read. Gaiman gets everything from travel guidebooks to nameless horrors spot-on. (And 'Strange Ian' made me laugh out loud...)

*** "Gas Station Carnivals" by Thomas Ligotti
I really enjoy Ligotti's signature faux-19th-century, formal style - but I'm not sure it works to its best effect in this tale of memories of creepy roadside attractions that may or may not be hallucinatory.

*** "Bucket of Blood" by Norman Partridge
The story is set in this bar: http://www.bucketofbloodsaloonvc.com, and I can't help thinking that Partridge was also thinking of the violence that Nick Cave places in this bar in his version of 'Stagger Lee.' (Partridge is clearly familiar with the legend, having also written a story called 'Stackalee.') Here, two young men on a road trip stop by the bar, and are waylaid by women, gambling, and a local tough.

** "The King of Rotten Wood" by Gary A. Braunbeck
Hard-core horror. This tale of a man who makes his living creating emotionally touching memorial videos to be played at funerals is not for the faint of heart. It has some interesting ideas - but I thought it would be better as a piece of writing if it tightened up the parts about the emotional toll of dealing with death on a daily basis, and toned back the gruesome details of abuse and murder.

** "Front-Page McGuffin and the Greatest Story Ever Told" by Peter Crowther
This one is available for free at this link: http://www.infinityplus.co.uk/stories/frontpagemcguffin.htm
Weirdly, this story doesn't seen to refer to the popular usage of McGuffin at all.
Also weirdly, although the introductory part of the book goes into quite some detail about the titular character's unusual nickname and career as a newspaperman, neither his name nor his career are relevant to the main part of the story at all. Basically, distraught after his wife dies, the man falls into a decline and dies himself. His walking, talking corpse wanders in to his old local, where one of his buddies commiserates with him about how awful it is to lose someone you love. This understanding frees his spirit.
The rambling, exaggerated style of the story reminds me a bit of Mark Helprin's 'Winter's Tale' - a book I dislike, but which is loved by many - so your mileage may vary.

*** "Des Lors" by Roberta Lannes
I'm not really sure this was horror. It's definitely interesting... A happily-married woman with too many single friends finally suggests that those friends try going out to the lovely bar where she met her husband. It turns out that this bar is all things to all people - each individual sees it as the sort of place they prefer - and the people who meet there seem to each other like just the sort of person they were looking to meet. The 'horror' seems to be that it's illusion - the individuals in question might be ugly, geeky, or socially awkward, rather than the Adonises and Venuses their new partners seem to think they are. But after all, isn't that what love does to all of us? It hides a person's faults, covers them in a glamour. It lets people be happy together.

*** "At Home In the Pubs of Old London" by Christopher Fowler
I liked this mainly for the depiction of (as the titles indicates) the Pubs of Old London. I've only actually been to a couple of the locations listed, but they were immediately recognizable - and the writing made me feel like I'd almost visited the others as well. This being a horror anthology, I almost immediately suspected some kind of Jack-the-Ripper scenario was being hinted at. There's not much of an actual 'story,' but the progression of the piece is effectively creepy.

** "Spirited" by Steve Rasnic Tem
A brief glimpse into the mind of a delusionary, hallucinating drunk.

*** "Times of Atonement" Yvonne Navarro
An empath, who is compelled to take others' guilt and shame into herself, has an unexpected encounter with an unusual individual - at a bar, of course.

**** "That Was Radio Clash" by Charles de Lint
This very well might be my favorite piece that I've read by de Lint. It's a memorial tribute to Joe Strummer - which doesn't hurt. But it's also a sweet and meaningful story about making the most of second chances - and about the joy of music.

*** "Friday Night at the Wicked Swan" by Charles L. Grant
Oh man... this is one that will stick in the back of your mind and prey on your dreams. In a small town, women congregate at the local, and laughingly talk about their Heroes - erotic fantasies that outstrip their husbands... mostly, they're the expected tropes: cowboys, literal superheroes, knights in shining armor... But now, although this town is supposedly safe, women are disappearing...

** "Bar Talk" by Peter Straub
I didn't get this one. Very short. A new customer shows up at a bar full of regulars, and somehow traumatizes one lady (?). I'm not sure...

*** "Time Was" by David Morrell
A businessman, running late on his way home from a trip, takes a detour, and winds up in an Arizona ghost town - a literal ghost town. Somehow, his visit jolts him into an alternate reality - one where no one, not his wife, not his boss, not the government... remembers that he ever existed.

*** "Shades of the Past" by C. Bruce Hunter
A traveling salesman looking to pick up a young prostitute in a rural bar has the sins of his past come back to haunt him.

*** "Luke: Homeward Angel" by Chaz Brenchley
A gambler who seems to have lost his luck at playing pub trivia games is visited at his regular by two strange young men... who may, possibly, be Lucifer and Jesus? But if so, which is which, and what are the stakes of the game they're playing?

*** "The Last Good Times" by Tim Lebbon
A ghost story with an apocalyptic feel. The dead start coming back, haunting their loved ones - and driving the living mad.

*** "Two In the Eyes" by Tom Piccirilli
A young man walks into a Mafia den with a plan for revenge...

**** "Welcome to the Masque" by Jeff VanderMeer
New Year's Eve, 1900. The story sets up what the reader expects will be a screed against racism: a black man walks into a bar, and encounters a hostile racist and his buddies. And it is about racism, about resistance to change, about how our modern, progressive ideas may be only a thin veneer over retrograde attitudes. However, then it takes a turn, and gets weird and violent. Very well done.

*** "The Order of Nature" by Edward Lee
A man walks into a bar... and unexpectedly, into a violent hostage situation. The characters are all, intentionally, ones that you might encounter in the classic joke (the Jew, the Muslim (why is he in a bar?), the Blonde, the Brunette). We let a lecture on how hate makes the world go 'round... and then the tables are turned, and the joke's on all of us. The execution (haha) is a little clunky, but I appreciated it.

*** "A Fine and Private Place" by Thomas F. Monteleone
Some coincidence - or power - gathers together three strangers at a roadside bar - three men who have made encounters with death part of their daily life as part of their professional careers. Tonight, they have another encounter to face - and a significant choice to make.

*** "The Family Room" by Nicholas Royle
When you join a stranger at his table, you never know what you're truly in for. Here, it's a tale of grief and tragedy. I'm not sure all the foreshadowings and metaphors here fully worked, but overall it's a nicely atmospheric tale.

*** "The Smoke From Mooney's Pub" by Chet Williamson
Well done - but it felt a little typical. Old ethnic resentments left over from history psychologically infect the three members of an Irish pub band, with horrific results. While the story sits firmly within its expected genre, it's done well - and quite chilling.

*** "The Snug" by Terry Lamsley
Another horror story where a supernatural tragedy of the past insists on replaying itself, 200 years to the day after the original events. Here the setting is a snowed-in pub, playing host to a birthday party from the local old-folks' home. Things have been weird at the pub lately.. employees have been quitting, making complaints. Strange noises have been coming from the unused back room. But all that is only a teaser for what's to come.

(2.8 average, rounds up to 3). ( )
  AltheaAnn | Feb 9, 2016 |
first rate.
  JLauderbaugh01 | Aug 8, 2009 |
näyttää 2/2
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Taverns are timeless places, as familiar and welcome as the spirits that rest themselves atop the bar. Through the ages, in times of war, of famine, of love and death, they have stood in silence, radiating the promise of a soporific sojourn from the horrors and the worries of the outside world. We are drawn to them by this promise, by the notion that we may be protected and comforted by the light, the animated chatter and the warmth inside those smeared glasses. When we go there, it is with no fear at all.But taverns can be deadly places, where ghosts walk, the shadows talk and not everyone is your friend.With Taverns of the Dead, editor Kealan Patrick Burke has reserved a table and gathered together some of the finest writers in modern horror and dark fantasy to share their most terrifying bar stories with you, the unsuspecting patron.Pull up a chair and prepare to be regaled by tales of monsters, madness, ghosts and gore, in a place we know all too well...

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