The Backwoods
By Edward Lee
Leisure Books, 2005
Reviewed by William I. Lengeman III
(First published in Apex Digest)
Things are going well for Patricia White, a successful Washington, DC attorney married to a restaurant critic. This being a horror novel, though, it's obvious that things can't go well for long - and they don't.
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The Shadow at the Bottom of the World
by Thomas Ligotti
Cold Spring Press, 2005
Reviewed by William I. Lengeman III
(First published in Apex Digest)
Stylistically speaking, the field of horror, dark fantasy, supernatural or weird fiction (or whatever it's called these days) is a pretty broad one. Those readers conditioned to yarns filled with contemporary characters - some of whom might even be sympathetic - snappy patter, plenty of action, buckets of blood and gore, liberal doses of T&A and numerous pop culture references might not know what to make of Thomas Ligotti, whose fiction contains very little of the above mentioned.
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