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A fine collection of stories, all deeply weird and unsettling, and often as interested in the Weimar Germany anxieties that form the background of The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (and in more recent anxieties) as they are in the classic film's story and visuals.
***this review originally appeared on The Ginger Nuts of Horror website***You don’t need little ol’ me to tell you The Madness of Dr. Caligari is a top-notch anthology, do you? As of this writing, it’s been nominated for a Shirley Jackson Award, for starters. Besides that, it’s got Joe Pulver’s name on it, and that damn near says it all.Besides being a gifted weird fiction writer himself, Pulver is one hell of an anthologist, most notably putting together such attention-grabbing compilations as
Grab your popcorn and curl up to someone close as you delve down into this chilling collection of weird stories inspired by the silent horror classic, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari. Everyone will have his or her own favorites. Take a Walk in the Night, My Love by Damien Angelica Walters will have you shivering and checking beneath your sheets, robbed of sleep. The Mayor of Ephemera by Jeffrey Thomas cuts deep with its science-fiction horror and the haunting imagery of ultimate loneliness. To See,
Another overhyped themed anthology, this time with even with less merit than usual. I do love the original movie, but source for some sort of fiction mythos or shared universe it is not, nor will it ever be, and these stories only serve to prove that.
A solid anthology inspired by Robert Wiene’s 1920 classic silent German Expressionist weird horror movie The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari. Pulver (as always) has put together a strong lineup of authors, some familiar and some not, to write tales of hypnosis, somnambulism, unreliable narrators, horror and Caligari. The authors take their Caligari influences in multiple directions from direct homage to more tangentially thematically related stories. As with all anthologies some stories work better for
While the book "The Madness of Dr. Caligari" does contain a finely assembled cast of authors and view points from diverse voices attempting to give tribute to an interesting movie, I found much of the book unappealing. While Goodreads and Amazon both have credited the editor of The Madness to Ramsey Campbell the book itself states the editor is Joseph S. Pulver Sr. . I don't think that I'm quibbling too fine a point, as I found the order of the stories to be part of the problem of reading the bo...
Preferred the stories in front half over those in the back, in general. All in all, enjoyed the duplicity and grimness of it. Stories get a bit darker as the collection progresses.
This is a solid anthology with some real gems. My favorites were the stories by Reggie Oliver, Molly Tanzer, and John Langan.
Realistically speaking, how could I NOT love this? I've been working since summer 2011 on a musical theatre project loosely adapted (LOOSELY) from the classic silent horror film, and discovering a whole book of weird fiction inspired by the movie was a godsend. Are all the stories perfect? No. But almost all of them had a certain, to quote Steve Martin, "je ne sais I don't know what." Maybe it's just that I've been immersed in Caligarism for six years now, to varying degrees, but the strange wor...
Meanwhile, this highly sophisticated coda strikingly portrays not only the paradoxes of non-reality and reality via the concept of the unreliable narrator (by means of (ostensibly) two female roommates and a female doctor), but also the actual intrinsic history, cinematic effect, production qualities and disturbing nature of the famous Caligari film itself. I think I now know this film better than simply the act of seeing it might once have conveyed.I have thus been genuinely disturbed by this c...
