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I can’t work out for the life of me how to review a book again so I’m rewriting my original one for this current rereadAnyway. Much easier to read on a second go and I suspect a third and fourth might begin to bring an actual design to these troubling and strange stories. Because there are connections and shared obsessions and a genuine sense of a troubled world, hard to explain and hard to fathom. And so much is in flux, especially someone like Dr Mendez, a troubling figure whose status nags aw...
There are good ideas, decent writing, and flashes of brilliance here but I found tedious the esoteric weirdness in between.
I first heard about Tony Burgess when I watched Pontypool. I rather enjoyed the movie and wanted to read the book it was based on. Unfortunately I've yet to find a copy, though I'm still hunting so I picked up two of his other books instead.Hellmouths is a collection of 16 short stories set in a small town called Bewdley and, if it was the first Burgess I'd been exposed to, I probably wouldn't want to read anything else by him. The stories are all fairly short and seem rather scattered. I was le...
A sort of small-town Canadian Last Exit to Brooklyn complete with random acts of violence and spurts of formal experimentation and deconstruction. In general, it has more of a tilt towards horror, however without the full supernatural post-modernism later harnessed in his much more conceptually developed Pontypool Changes Everything. Here, instead, we encounter various scattered scenes of destruction and dissolution, often under an impassive eye granting equal attention to any axe blow or leaf s...
WHAT DID I JUST READ. Like many others, I found this book through the Pontypool movie. I liked the movie well enough, saw that it was adapted from a book series, and found this book. It took me a while to get through, and I thought the first story was just weird and then it would all come together. Well, all of the stories are weird and they did not come together. Or maybe they did and I just missed something? One of the most messed up things I've ever read, not quite as bad as the Story of the
Burgess gets a lot of mileage out of describing corpses as objects, finding beautiful imagery in the most unlikely of places. Really, the best thing about this book was its imagery. Its stories weren't really supernatural or surreal, but such wonderful surreal images grow in the space between scenes. When some people are talking, and it's so cold their words freeze in the air then fall to the ground and are pecked at by birds, I loved that!I kept trying to determine some sort of interesting conn...
Frankly, I don’t know what I just read. I’ve heard this described as a novel in short stories but it didn’t feel quite that cohesive. I love Burgess’ style. Gritty. Unrelenting. Some of these stories were outstanding, displaying either a mastery of character, setting or mood but the whole wasn’t as interesting as the sum of its parts. I kept feeling around for the thread but it wasn’t quite there.So, read it, enjoy it, but don’t feel like you need to go through sequentially.www.erickmertzauthor....
A beautifully strange collection of stories, some of which are more successful than others, some of which are truly disturbing, and all of which show a mastery of language that’s honestly second to none. This is the third book I’ve read by Tony Burgess, professional Elvis Impersonator, and he’s the most convincingly unstable literary mind I’ve come across. It’s impossible to know where a story will end up going or what theme will be put on display, but even at its most bizarre the writing is sti...
Beautiful language, but sometimes difficult reading.
I'm giving this a 3.5While looking to expand my palette in the horror/thriller world of books, I kept hearing a lot about author Tony Burgess. His book 'Pontypool Changes Everything' (Apparently a badass zombie novel) has been on my radar for awhile and I keep meaning to pick it up (and I will, promise!). But in a used bookstore I recently stumbled on an earlier book of his called 'The Hellmouths of Bewdley', which I'd never heard of. So I snapped it up and cracked it open as soon as I got home....
Horror has never been so lyrically written.
Let me start that I came to this collection expecting horror stories. Considering the use of “Hellmouth” in the title, I was expecting something at least vaguely connected to or hinting of the supernatural, and was terribly disappointed. Considering all this, I don’t get this (tenuously) braided short story collection. I had high hopes from all the reviews mentioning that it is unsettling. I found it to mostly consist of weird (or banal) shit happening, and then the story stopping. Occasionally
I had high expectations for The Hellmouths of Bewdley - a book by Tony Burges, the writer of one of my favorite horror movies: Pontypool. I hoped for another atypical twist to the typical horror tropes, funny characters and intelligent dread. Yet, the book is nothing like the movie. The Hellmouths of Bewdley is a collection of short stories set in a fictionalized version of the Canadian town of Bewdley. This fictionalized setting is reminiscent of Stephen King's Castle Rock and is a common featu...
3.7A very solid, very creepy novel in stories.
