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A long overdue collection,
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This review is from: Figures in Rain: Weird and Ghostly Tales (Hardcover)
Consider the genre of horror fiction and the names of certain authors will invariably pop in your mind. In many cases, they are writers who can creatively, repeatedly and quite often messily kill off the characters who appear in their books; readers of contemporary horror are not frightened so much as repulsed by scenes of violent, often supernatural death and gore.
Author Chet Williamson seems to be forever linked to the realm of horror fiction -- a label that is somewhat unjustified and is owed largely to a few short-sighted decisions by agents, editors and publishers over the years. An excellent example of the diversity of Williamson's work can be seen in one shot in this short-story collection. If he must be pigeonholed, I'd place Williamson among the very best contemporary and urban fantasy writers on the market; his stories are typically in a dark, not horrific, vein and he plumbs the realms of the unknown with a bit more on his mind than effective methods of slaughtering nubile co-eds. As Joe Lansdale remarks in his introduction to this anthology, Williamson defies categorization, and his stories tend to reflect a widely varied view of the world. And, while a lot of his stories are disquieting -- and even in some cases frightening -- it's only occasionally because someone has died, had a limb lopped off or otherwise met with the sort of bloody, disgusting fate favored by most horror readers and highway rubberneckers. Long before I read a Chet Williamson novel, I had heard his praises sung by a co-worker of mine who said Williamson was among the finest short-story writers in the field. "Figures in Rain" is a long-overdue collection of some of Williamson's best material, arranged chronologically so readers can experience his growth as a writer and his expanding diversity of styles. by Tom Knapp, Rambles editor
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