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The Dark Fantastic!,
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This review is from: The Nightmare Collection (Perfect Paperback)
Last Year's Stoker Award finalist returns with a dark poetry collection that catches the reader off guard with astonishing turns of concept and insight. These poems range from delightfully funny: "If the world/were werewolf people/it would be a hairier world/than you know" ("Werewolf People"), to slyly evocative: "Death/is such/a perfect diet..." ("Dark Gourmet"); to the darkest shades of utter bleakness: "In dingy sunset motels/scattered along the Pacific Coast/dead bodies surface/with horrid regularity ("California Noir"). Each page contains a dark dream throbbing with quintessential--and often very unpleasant-- truths of the human condition. I am particularly enthralled by Mr. Boston's speculations about what it would be like to live in world ruled by other creatures, real and fantastical. My favorite in this volume, "Crow People" assures us that "Even the sunsets,/masked with/grim cumuli,/would be dark/and bloody". What delicious chills shudder through these poems! Click on the cover graphic and slip into Bruce Boston's masterful domain of dark wonders. Cover art by Marge Simon, interior artwork by Russell Morgan. [...]
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The Nightmare Collection by Bruce Boston (Perfect Paperback - August 18, 2008)
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