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If you (like me) love Ray Bradbury and the stranger, somewhat surreal side of fantasy, horror, and science fiction, then this short story collection by E. Catherine Tobler is most definitely for you. For years, Tobler has been writing an amazing assortment of short stories (and a novella!) set in her weird, wonderful, unsettling, and sometimes rather terrifying, Circus world. In this collection, you will enter that Circus world, and meet characters who, while they seem strange on the surface, ar...
Oh, my! This was yummy. A traveling carnival of the supernatural, I could not ask for more. The magician that can make things disappear, for real. The beautiful enchantress who makes the delicious marmalade. One jar is never enough. The young girl snatched from the streets finding freedom from her captors on the train, where macabre is the normal. She is home. They all are. Until the end of time. They are expecting you. They already know you. They have been waiting for you. To find yourself agai...
"The Grand Tour" is a gorgeous, disturbing collection of stories centered around a traveling circus. Tobler's writing is somehow sharp and hypnotic at the same time, and the characters are fascinating. While the stories would be compelling individually, together they weave into a larger whole that drew me in and made me think. There was one story in here that was too much for me, but overall, this is a wonderful collection.
Yes, I am the first to review this book, it is a distinct privilege. But here’s the thing…if you just told me to read a dreamily poetic set of stories of strange beings with feminist/queer angle and no reviews anywhere, it wouldn’t be an instant sell. But throw in a circus theme and I’m so here. So yes, this one had me at circus. I love all things to do with circuses. So I downloaded and read this one almost immediately upon discovering it on Netgalley. And ended up liking it very much. In fact,...
4/5 stars Trigger warnings: Death, grief, abortion (?), self harm (?), incest (?), sexual content, mutilation Circus mysteries, horrors in the dark, back and forth travels in different eras and the end of the world are only a few things you can find in this weird, weird collection of tales. As a huge fan of circus stories, I was surprised when I found this existed and decided to give it a read. Although there were some stories and scenes that made me knit my eyebrows together or wonder what the...
One of my New Years Reading Resolutions was to read more small press fiction. The vast majority of the small press stuff I’ve read has been from Apex, a small press publisher of weird science fiction, fantasy and horror. This collection of short stories falls pretty firmly into the horror category, though there’s smatterings of science fiction thrown in there for good measure. THE GRAND TOUR tells the stories of the performers and hangers-on of a travelling circus seemingly not bound by the laws...
Oh my. The poetic prose here is a wonder and I would read this collection just for that. I had read some of the Jackson's Unreal Circus stories previously, but I didn't know how many there were or how to find them all. They were dark, and crooked and magical and hopeful. The only comparison might be the tone and strangeness of China Mieville's early work. I was excited about having all the stories in one place, and the collection is masterfully put together, to the point that it can read like a
I loved this book. It was once again a perfect present. This book has everything I want in a book, characters at their most raw, dark implications and boundary pushing worlds. The Grand Tour will be a book I read over and over again finding something new and old that resonates every time. Much like the circus and marmalade themselves.
I love all things circus, so I was drawn to this collection like... well like a dreamer to the circus. I did dream of running away with circus when I was younger, and older, though my role changed and I won't get into that. Much like you might imagine a circus, this collection had an eclectic mix of stories spanning a long history, but all connected by one theme, one particular circus, Jackson's Unreal Circus and Mobile Marmalade.Characters wind through the tales, growing on you as they do each
