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Warmed And Bound: A Velvet Anthology (2011)

by Pela Via(Favorite Author)

4.15 of 5 Votes: 5

languge

English

genre

Horror

publisher

Velvet Press

review 1: Awesome collection of neo-noir and transgressive fiction as one would expect from The Velvet. I mainly bought it for some of my favorite authors like Craig Clevenger, Jeremy Robert Johnson, Richard Thomas and Stephen Graham Jones but I discovered some great new voices along the way. It's dark and compelling all the way through, but three stories above all others really stood out to me: "Acts of Contrition" By: Craig Clevenger (no surprise there), "All The Acid In The World" By: Gavin Pate and "The Tree of Life" By: Edward J. Rathke. Those three really blew me away ("The Tree of Life" was probably my favorite) and after reading them I immediately ordered Pate and Rathke's books. I'll be posting future reviews of those books as soon as I tear into them along with several of ... morethe authors in this collection that I've already added to my "To Read" list. Stay posted.
review 2: i really liked this collection of short stories. as usual though, some really didn't belong, i felt, and should have been left out by the editor, or else other stories in the writer's repertoire could have been used instead. others though were absolutely amazing and i'm looking forward to seeking out certain authors chosen for the anthology to read other works written by them. i mean, some really blew my mind. others i thought were rather pedestrian, shit that belonged in my high school or college lit mag. some i felt were over-indulgent and self-congratulatory. but overall i thought the book was definitely worth reading if you're into pulp, and with many of the short stories i was left wanting more, and not in a bad way. less

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