A Collapse of Horses

Posted on 16 December 2018 by Brian Evenson

A stuffed bear s heart beats with the rhythm of a dead baby Reno keeps receding to the east no matter how far you drive and in a mine on another planet, the dust won t stop seeping in In these stories, Brian Evenson unsettles us with the everyday and the extraordinary the terror of living with the knowledge of all we cannot know. New Download A Collapse of Horses [ By ] Brian Evenson [ Kindle ePUB or eBook ] – kino-fada.fr 5 word review not counting these words here, hidden in the parenthesis, but these stories were so weird and disturbing and burrowing, yes, burrowing, inside, inside you Loved it And blurbed it Here s my blurb Brian Evenson s collection A Collapse of Horses is equal parts Franz Kafka, J G Ballard, Sam Peckinpah, and George Miller s Mad Max His apocalyptic and paranoid stories are as ontological as they are disquieting, creating a remarkable unity of effect, a timeless yet recognizably 5 word review not counting these words here, hidden in the parenthesis, but these stories were so weird and disturbing and burrowing, yes, burrowing, inside, inside you Loved it And blurbed...I recently attended a Brian Evenson reading held at Skylight Books in the appropriately understated, enduringly cool east Hollywood enclave of Los Feliz During the Q A session after he read his latest collection s titular piece, Evenson shared a personal story that had occurred in a parking garage just days before As he was walking to his car one afternoon, he noticed a fluttering object up ahead of him, trapped in the corner of the structure, that appeared to be a distressed bird most I recently attended a Brian Evenson reading held at Skylight Books in the appropriately understated, enduringly cool east Hollywood enclav...If Children of the New World Stories is reminiscent of Black Mirror, A Collapse of Horses isof a slightly grown up, less resolved version of the Goosebumps and Are You Afraid of the Dark stories many of us enjoyed growing up.There are few, if any, stories in here that would be unsuitable for teenage readers, and somehow we are offered a collection that is both predictable and confusing at the same time These stories don t have a solid resolution, leaving it up to the reader to decide, If Children of the New World Stories is reminiscent of Black Mirror, A Collapse of Horses isof a slightly grown up, less resolved version of the Goosebumps and Are You Afraid of the Dark stories many of us enjoyed growing up.There are few, if any, stories in here that would be unsuitable for teenage readers, and somehow we are offered a collection that is both predictable and confusing at the same tim...I ve made no secret of the fact that I love Brian s work both his non fiction and his fiction I ve published his work myself not once, but twice I ve only had the chance to meet him in person once, many years ago, but have had correspondence with him off and on for a long time now He even let me have the honor of accepting the International Horror Guild Award on his behalf when he couldn t make it to a convention I was attending So I might be a little biased But only a little even if he I ve made no secret of the fact that I love Brian s work both his non fiction and his fiction I ve published his work myself not once, but twice I ve only had the chance to meet him in person once, many years ago, but have had correspondence with him off and on for a long time now He even let me have the honor of accepting the International Horror Guild Award on his behalf when he couldn t make it to a convention I was attending So I might be a little biased But only a little even if he appears in my personal appendix N I try to be objective when I read Brian s work, which means that, at times, I am a harsher critic than I ought to be Then, along comes a story that entirely blows my mind and, well, there goes any semblance of objectivity or decorum, for that matter And what did I think of this collection Brian s The Wavering Knife is one of my favorite single author collections of all time, so A Collapse of Horses is up against its own stiff competition Here are my thoughts on each story Th...I once went to Powell s in Portland with the purpose of bringing home several Brian Evenson books I had gone to reading he had done at Powells a few weeks earlier and didn t have money that night I went to the horror section and couldn t find it He had done a reading there the week before, you think they would have it So I looked him up on the catalog Literature I ll be damned I mean anyone reading my blog knows that I feel the genre ghetto is really a false wall, but I was surprised by I once went to Powell s in Portland with the purpose of bringing home several Brian Evenson books I had gone to reading he had done at Powells a few weeks earlier and didn t have money that night I went to the horror section and couldn t find it He had done a reading there the week before, you think they would have it So I looked him up on the catalog Literature I ll be damned I mean anyone reading my blog knows that I feel the genre ghetto is really a false wall, but I was surprised by this Six or so years later and four Evenson books under my belt, including a super cool and underrated Alien tie in written under a thinnly veiled pen name I get it.Brian Evenson is that good of a writer He deserves to be in both sections of the book store really I have been on recor...This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers To view it, click here I ve been a Brian Evenson fan for almost eight years now and I m happy to say this fact has improved my life It can improve your life as well with the small investment that is A Collapse of Horses, Evenson s latest story collection On the surface it s much the same as his other short story collections People variously label this work as horror, or literary fiction, or literary horror and the publishers include a quirky page after the final story that says LITERATURE is not the same thing as I ve been a Brian Evenson fan for almost eight years now and I m happy to say this fact has improved my life It can improve your life as well with the small investment that is A Collapse of Horses, Evenson s latest story collection On the surface it s much the same as his other short story collections People variously label this work as horror, or literary fiction, or literary horror and the publishers include a quirky page after the final story that says LITERATURE is not the same thing as PUBLISHING , which comes off as odd in a collection such as this To be sure, there is horror here the literary effect But there is also something else going on that perhaps people are mistaking for horror, and that s cognitive dissonance That s one of Evenson s true strengths and it shines in stories like Click, my personal favorite in the collection, a tale of a recovering or dy...I don t read short stories as often as novels, and I don t really know how reviewers typically go about analyzing them But I do remember an assignment in a personality psych class for which we the students each had to choose ten pictures from magazines, newspapers, etc at random , and write a very brief story about each one After we d done this, we were to read over the stories and decide if there were any common themes or ideas that we hadn t been aware of while writing Sure enough I don t read short stories as often as novels, and I don t really know how reviewers typically go about analyzing them But I do remember an assignment in a personality psych class for which we the students each had to choose ten pictures from magazines, newspapers, etc at random , and write a very brief story about each one After we d done this, we were to read over the stories and decide if there were any common themes or ideas that we hadn t been aware of while writing Sure enough there were, at least in my case A Collapse of Horses reminded of this assignment, probably because the commonalities among these stories seemed especially clear to me I would say that the majority of them are about the loss of the self That may sound like an overused phrase, and or unhelpf...A quiet, panicked take on horror Brian Evenson s short stories are filled to the brim with dark water possibilities spilling out past the corners of the pages His stories are the kind that produce short breathed, cosmi...Brian Evenson s astonishing new collection from Coffee House Press, A Collapse of Horses, coincides with the re release of three previous works the much heralded novels Father of Lies, Open Curtain and Last Days Each cover depicts an illustration of part of a creature that when taken together form a beast that doesn t exist.There s an apt metaphor here, but ...Solid collection of strange stories, mostly of the quiet but unsettling kind Ambiguity abounds There were a couple stories that I didn t get at all, but overall I really enjoyed it.

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16 December 2018

Brian Evenson