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July 5, 2017
Fury is a short story which, like a lot of good horror, takes common tropes and twists them into something blisteringly original. It's a disconcerting take on both body horror and the haunted house, opening with an unnamed male character summoned to a property on a 'call-out'. We might deduce he's a forensic scientist, judging by the way he approaches the scene: 'automatically, he put on the whites. He pulled on his gloves.' Immediately, he feels attracted to this new-build home, as if it's somewhere he's been many times before. His boss's instructions make little sense to him, and a turning point comes when he realises that the terrible damage to the house and its residents is not the work of a human being...
It's a nice change to read a Nightjar story that marches confidently into horror territory, rather than trading in ambiguity and suggestion (not that there's anything wrong with that, of course). It's perfectly compact, the short story an ideal medium for such subject matter. The imagery conjured up by Waters' prose will stick with me for a while.
(I read this along with another Nightjar Press chapbook, Rounds by Wyl Menmuir, which is reviewed here. The stories are excellent companions to each other. )
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It's a nice change to read a Nightjar story that marches confidently into horror territory, rather than trading in ambiguity and suggestion (not that there's anything wrong with that, of course). It's perfectly compact, the short story an ideal medium for such subject matter. The imagery conjured up by Waters' prose will stick with me for a while.
(I read this along with another Nightjar Press chapbook, Rounds by Wyl Menmuir, which is reviewed here. The stories are excellent companions to each other. )
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January 14, 2021
“But as he watched the red scratches darken and bleed, he simply smiled –”
This story, as its own intended discrete work of fashioning you the reader inside it even against your will, standing alone as a powerful force of a fury from the buildings or crime scenes the narrated protagonist investigates as part of his job, ‘connecting’ him to them, flattening out our real three-dimensional world of objects inside them, people, too. There is of course more to it than that, as you will find out, without my need to spoil it for you first.
The work also connects with the connection of Alice to her own new house by a cord against her own Wyl.
This story, as its own intended discrete work of fashioning you the reader inside it even against your will, standing alone as a powerful force of a fury from the buildings or crime scenes the narrated protagonist investigates as part of his job, ‘connecting’ him to them, flattening out our real three-dimensional world of objects inside them, people, too. There is of course more to it than that, as you will find out, without my need to spoil it for you first.
The work also connects with the connection of Alice to her own new house by a cord against her own Wyl.
January 4, 2018
Unsettling, tense, and atmospheric. Loved it.
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