I admit that the concept of Giallo is still new to me. When it comes to this anthology though, the quality of the stories and the editing are top notch. The eeriness of it all makes for a memorable read. My favorites of the bunch are:Terror in the House Of Broken Belles by Nikki GuerlainThe Strange Vice of ZLA-313 by MP JohnsonHello Handsome by Garrett CookWe Can Only Become Monsters by Ennis Drake

Vote: 4 (5 if you add the awesome cover art)A good anthology mixing all shades of giallo genres with horror and fantastique.There are some beautiful gems here, but a few stories just went off-topic/target.A must read for all fans of horror and crime stories with black gloved hands masked killers. “Minerva” by Michael Kazepis: 4 stars. A very good start of this anthology, filled with disturbing oneiric scenes and a twisted double ending 100% 70s Giallo Cinema style. "In the Flat Light" by Ada...

Giallo Fantastique is a high-concept anthology that’s built on the premise that two great tastes are going to taste great together. The stories took that idea in very different directions, resulting in an anthology that’s truly varied in type. Some are fantasias with nods in the direction of giallo, some are giallos with a hint of the fantastic, and some few strike a middle path that seems to incorporate both influences equally. This book has delights and surprises throughout!For more detail, I

If you really dig film-inspired stories in general, and Giallo in particular, this anthology is for you. I consider myself more Giallo-adjacent, and while I can often appreciate the artistry, it’s not really one of my major buttons. That said, there’s plenty of excellent stories to seek out, even if you’re not enamored with The Yellow.The essay “Yellow: The Color of Decadence, Strangeness, and Fear” by Ross E. Lockhart is a really good warmup and primer. I appreciate prefaces that set me up for

Giallo Fantastique is something special, and I'm not saying that just because it contains my story "The Red Church." I liked The Children of Old Leech as much as anyone, but with this anthology and 2013's Tales of Jack the Ripper, editor Ross Lockhart show's that he's got a master's eye for selecting "strange stories at the intersection of crime, terror, and the supernatural," as the back matter for Giallo Fantastique would have it.If you're unfamiliar with either of the two terms that make up t...

Really good anthology! It was extremely well written and the authors truly managed to capture the essence of the genre and pour it into each story, even those that seem alien to this style. I loved it and it suprised me in the best way possible, amazing.

I received a free copy of this book through a goodreads first reads giveaway.I started from scratch here. The genre of the anthology is one I haven't spent much time exploring and the authors were unknown to me. And it worked out pretty well! Only a few stories didn't quite hit the mark for me.There's more or less a story for everyone here as long as they're in the mood for something creepy and not quite right. The stories in this book cover a good mix of strange worlds and unsettling tones (I d...

I went in to this anthology knowing almost nothing about the worlds of giallo or fantastique, but editor Ross Lockhart gives some brief and very helpful background about both in his introduction. The stories that come after vary in tone and content, and I found them all to be at least enjoyable, often very good or even great.Garrett Cook’s “Hello Handsome” and MP Johnson’s “The Strange Vice of ZLA-313” are both clever concepts written exceedingly well. Anya Martin’s “Sensoria” is fittingly surre...

This book is a hell of a lot of fun. As the title suggests, it leans towards the fantastique and not so much the police-procedural style of giallo fiction/cinema. There's not a dud in the batch, but two stories really stand out: Orrin Grey's "The Red Church," which perfectly captures the low-grade LSD weirdness of the second-run giallos before climaxing in a blood red final that feels just like a Soavi/Argento flick and Anya Martin's "Sensoria" which achieves the rare trick of being a story I co...

(Reprinted from the Chicago Center for Literature and Photography [cclapcenter.com]. I am the original author of this essay, as well as the owner of CCLaP; it is not being reprinted illegally.)Giallo Fantastique is the second in a series of titles we received this year from horror publisher Word Horde, and is pretty similar in makeup to the first title we reviewed, Children of Old Leech; it's another anthology consisting of previous Word Horde authors, in this case combining the Italian "lurid d...

Those who know me are aware of my love for giallo films. I've seen probably close to 80 of them and still do. I love it's themes, its convoluted storyline and weird killers. I love as well what this book calls Fantastique cinema, stories like Suspiria or Inferno or some other movies by Argento and Fulci. Well, just be aware that this anthology has barely any giallo stories in the traditional sense, all stories more like weird fiction than outright giallo. Maybe the only one that is closest to th...

This book was an impulse borrow from the library, and I humbly admit it was due to the lurid cover (a clever throwback to mid-century pulp fiction) and the intriguing title, which evoked the "giallo" genre of detective and slasher books and films from Italy. The quality of the stories varies widely. Some were a slog to get through. I found Nikki Guerlain's Terror in the House of the Broken Belles simply disturbing. It wasn't the explicit sexuality, or the explicit gore. It was the integration of...

I have a story in here, but beyond THAT, the others assembled are just brilliant. Ross has done an outstanding job, yet again, of piecing together some remarkable works. I am humbled to be part of it.

Giallo refers to the color yellow, and also a type of Italian crime fiction that emerged in the 1920s and later a genre of similarly themed films. This anthology seeks to evoke the world of both the novels and films, and succeeds stunningly. Thing thing that fans of the films love about them is STYLE. Giallo films are told with a great visual style, incorporating striking colors and recurring motifs that create a world of their own. They often also have superb dramatic soundtracks.What is so tri...

Giallo Fantastique is a solid new anthology from editor Ross E Lockhart and publisher Word Horde. The collection is both a collection of, and a tribute to, the Italian genre of exploitation films from the 1960s and ‘70s. Much like the original films, the stories focus on difficult, often brutal subject matter using artistic and stylistic flourishes to draw the audience in. All twelve stories are original to this collection and boast established, talented horror writers and is headlined by horror...

like a 3.7 rounded uphttp://www.oddlyweirdfiction.com/2018...Now here's something you don't run across every day: a book filled with stories blending giallo and the fantastique, as interpreted by the twelve authors contributing to this volume. In his introduction Ross Lockhart says that what we're about to read is"a paranoiac descent into a dark world of literary Grand Guignol like no other ... on the one hand grim and fantastic, on the other pure (if grotesque) cinematic fun" and he isn't jokin...

It should come as no surprise to those who know me that I am a huge Brian Keene fan. I have read almost all of his novels and novellas. When I found out that this book featured a story about one of his most popular characters "The Exit" it instantly rose to the top of my must buy list. After finally reading "Exit Strategies" I can say that Brian's short story delivers. Exit Strategies strongly connects to his overarching "Labyrinth Mythology" which is behind the scenes in all of his short fictio...

Få av novellerna är riktigt riktigt bra. Andra är mest veliga och långtråkiga. Men absolut läsvärd och intressant att ta del av. Bäst var Nikki Guerlains nobell.

Una recopilación bastante irregular de cuentos. Me encanta el género cinematográfico del giallo y su forma original de crear ambientes terroríficos a base de tramas enrevesadas y explosiones de color, con directores tan buenos como Bava,Argento o Fulci.Pero en este libro no he encontrado tantos relatos buenos como películas de giallo he visto, aún así hay algunos que valen mucho la pena como:“Yellow: The Color of Decadence, Strangeness, and Fear” by Ross E. Lockhart: Es un ensayo sobre el giallo...

I really wanted to like this more than I did. It's a great concept, but only about half of the stories really got under my skin. Nikki Guerlain's Terror in the House of Broken Belles was delightfully gruesome and weird; Orrin Grey's The Red Church and Ennis Drake's We Can Only Become Monsters both evoked that unsettling slow-burn horror with their exploration of artists and auteurs. Garrett Cook's Hello, Handsome played with point of view in an interesting and very creepy way. John Langan's The