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While this book ranks among the best I've read, it was also very disturbing, burrowing into my subconscious and disturbing my sleep. I'm not even certain I grasped / appreciated all of the stories as the author intended. A couple of the stories left me feeling adrift, off kilter, and confused, without actually feeling as though I'd progressed through an actual linear story. That made it hard to pinpoint why the stories disturbed me to such a degree. Definitely an author I'll keep an eye on, but
What a fantastic collection! Watt has, over the course of the 10 stories in the collection, shown what a wide range there can be in the Weird. Some stories showed almost a childlike abandon in the face of the unbelievable, while others thrust the horrific to the forefront. Many managed to do both of these things, and some were something entirely different. The one constant throughout the stories was change. The type of change varied from story to story, but it was always present. Plus, several d...
Another top notch book by a brilliant author of the macabre. Note only two of the stories in this book are original, Two of the stories were published by Ex Occidente. None the less, and excellent book attractively packaged. Recommended
Michel de Certeau wrote, in his essay on the figure of the Celebatory Machine: 'Fiction is the solitary machine which engineers the Eros of death.' This certainly true of D.P. Watt's The Phantasmagorical Imperative and Other Fabrications. Watt's protagonists in this collection are bachelor-mystics who race pell-mell towards their own ends. It's left unclear whether revelation or disappointment lie there, but for the reader the tales offer a shudder of dread and ecstasy.
