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talented author; disappointing collection. my complaints are hard to put into words. the author's prose is often impressive. she can create atmosphere: as other reviews have noted, her ability to establish a sense of place, the specificity of it and the details, the feeling of the locale... excellent, her greatest strength. I liked her focus on women in nearly all of the stories; indeed, the only story that I actively disliked is the sole tale told from a male's perspective - "Widdershins", whic...
Se acerca al 4.5.Tal como dice Lisa Tuttle en la introducción, cuentos sobre casas y lugares encantados. No hay ninguno malo, y unos cuantos están francamente bien. Mis favoritos: "Who Is This Who Is Coming?", "The Queen in the Yellow Paper" y "This Time of Day, This Time of Year".
This is copy 33 of 100 numbered copies of a total print run of 400 printed. This hardcover copy is also signed and dedicated by Lynda E. Rucker.
Having had no familiarity nor prior experience with Lynda E Rucker, I purchased this book on the strength of its publisher. I put a lot of stock in the work that Brian J Showers chooses to publish on his Swan River Press imprint so 'blind purchases' like this are not uncommon for me where he is concerned. I've always been pleased with the results. But never, so far as I recall, quite so pleased as I was with this collection. I'm a fan of ghost stories as a general rule. It doesn't take much to g...
This second collection by Shirley Jackson Award winner Lynda E. Rucker further demonstrates her mastery of the short story form. The eeriness of each tale is cumulative, one odd elision of ideas building upon another until a sense of dread is inescapable. The settings--often sites frequented by travelers or temporary tenants--underscore a natural fear that the world around us may be unreal, or may evaporate at any moment. Connections and relationships are slippery, easily lost. Our thoughts and
've been a fan of Lynda E. Rucker's fiction since reading her debut The Moon Will Look Strange, a fantastic collection of strange and haunting fiction. Her second collection, You'll Know When You Get There, is if anything even better.The first story, The Receiver Of Tales, is the perfect opener, introducing the reader to many reoccurring themes in the collection as a whole. Rucker's central character is isolated, both physically and emotionally, leaving her vulnerable to the events that follow.
A perfectly sized book of nine spooky weird stories written by a Shirley Jackson award-winning author. These are modern but classically vibed ghost and haunted hour stories. The concepts are original and each story deals with personal elements such as family struggles, PTSD, and loss. There is not a lot of violence or scary monsters in these stories but they still remain eerie enough to remain interesting. I actually read the first story A Receiver Of Tales to my young daughter and she loved it....
This book saved my sanity.On a weekend when the Coronavirus was taking over the UK, tap dancing on my mental health, and causing most people distress, I lost myself in this wonderful collection.The stories contained within You'll Know When You Get There by Lynda E. Rucker, reflect old masters such as M.R. James, Shirley Jackson, Robert Aikman. The collection opens with The Receiver of Tales, which is possibly my favourite story in the collection. An artist, a writer, a need to collect stories. I...
I have no problem at all giving this book five stars. Lynda Rucker's stories are little gems, each one gleaming with their own light, no two quite the same as any of the others. Yet there is an underlying consistency to the overall collection. The mood throughout is as if moving through a dream that is at once unnervingly familiar, yet cleverly imaginative. We follow the protagonists in each story down dark hallways, into deep woods and along bleak, windy shorelines, always glad we journeyed alo...
Rucker is often full of rhapsodies. Rhapsodies sometimes upon the edge of hard-consonantal near-rationalisation, also upon the soft edge of never coming back, of becoming attenuated, distaff-diaphanous…The detailed review of this book posted elsewhere under my name is too long or impractical to post here.Above is one of its observations at the time of the review.
Amazing collection! My favorite stories were "The House on Cobb Street," "Who is This Who is Coming?," "The Queen in the Yellow Wallpaper," "The Wife's Lament," and "The Haunting House," but I liked all of the stories here. The book is beautifully designed, too.
