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Canadians are very weird. Most of these stories made my brain hurt. They just didn't make any sense. Two I liked were Sympathy for the Devil and My Body. The Needle's Eye really freaked me out.
Disclosures up front: I have a story in this book. I know, to varying degrees, over half of the contributors, including Michael, the editor, and had previously read little of their work. Overall, the collection was more subtle than graphic, lyrical throughout, and some stories deeply affecting. A solid anthology.
Horror anthologies almost always over promise their ability to terrify their reading audience.It'll give you nightmares!Seven days and seven nights of chills!So scary you might as well read it in the bathroom so you can shit your pants and vomit into the litter box at the same time!Most of us have been reading the genre for a while and I suspect we're not expecting a hair-raising and soul blanching experience of fear. Been there, done that. Gotta up the disturbing and/or gory ante. Get nuts with...
If it were an option, I would give this anthology two and a half stars. Overall, it had a greater number of reasonably well-written stories than many small press horror anthologies I've read--but ultimately, I'm not sure Chilling Tales is entirely a horror anthology. It's not bad fir what it is--though neither is it amazing--but very few of these stories were anything close to what I'd call chilling, at least for me. And a number of them were also fairly derivative. I knew from the first page or...
This is a better than average horror short story collection with some strong authors.
I'm not sure I'd call most of these stories horror. More like dark fiction. Some were a little too oblique for my tastes (I had more than a few 'Huh?' moments), but the writing caliber was good across the board. Overall rating: 3.5/5.0 starsReviewed for Bitten by Books. http://bittenbybooks.com.
Pretty much all the big names in Canadian weird fiction are present in this anthology, so it's a little surprising to find the results slightly lackluster. Nearly all of the stories are thoughtful and well-written (far more so than is the norm with horror anthologies), but none of them are stunningly imaginative or creative. The book forms an interesting contrast with the last anthology I read, an entry in Kevin Donihe's "Bare Bones" series. There's no question that the present tome offers consi...
A collection of the top Canadian talent in horror has something for everyone. From Nancy Kilpatrick's straight ahead horror story "Sympathy For the Devil," to Michael R. Colangelo's disturbing "Blacklight," Leah Bobbet's lushly written "Stay" and the memorable "The Weight of Stones" by by Tia V. Travis.
There were a few stories that were exactly what I wanted for short story horror. There were a few stories where I wished I had another chapter or two to read about it because as I was really getting into it - the story ended. However, there were a few stories where I was left doing a "meh" style sound effect while turning the page.Overall it was a generally good book with a wide variety of "horror fiction". Worth giving a shot for short story lovers and people interested in diving into mild horr...
Oops - I thought I reviewed this ages ago. I suppose not. Onwards!I have read and loved many of Edge's anthologies (the Evolve collections are fantastic). But this one was surprisingly bad. Some stories were ok, but overall, it wasn't a good read. One of the stories in here even has the dishonor of being one of the worst stories I have ever read - and I have a massive collection of anthologies. The premise of the collection was great, I love chilling stories, but the book just didn't deliver. It...
The horror anthology Chilling Tales is a collection of 18 short stories. These have been gathered from Canadian authors living around Toronto. At first, I worried that this could be a group of people trying their first go at horror tales, but this was not the case. Each of these authors has been in the game for a while and this is just one of their many credits in the field of horror writing. Read the rest of the Chilling Tales, Evil Did I Dwell: Lewd I Did Live review at SFReader.com
This review appeared in the NYRSF in Jauary 2012. Chilling Tales: Evil Did I Dwell; Lewd I Did LiveEdited by Michael Kelly Trade PaperbackISBN: 978-1-894063-52-4 $14.95224 pages Review by Ursula Pflug684 words Many Canadian readers of horror and the supernatural turn to the U.S.'s mega-selling authors such as Stephen King, his son Joe Hill, or Peter Straub. Those writers are all superb craftsmen, but we have some fiercely good talent right here at home including those authors represented in C...
My story, "The Needles Eye" is in this anthology, so my opinion is likely biased, but Michael Kelly did a great job editing this one.Must finish reading ALL of the stories.
A compilation of Canadian-only horror? I'm in! And once done, mildly disappointed. A large enough number of stories here were enjoyable that I kept reading to the end, but I admit, this was more miss than hit for me. A lot of conceptual work, some great but the majority not, I kept with this for the few stories that worked (in some cases, very well) but overall I wanted more. Compilations are like that, I suppose, but still, Canadian authors writing horror set in Canada, and I'm in Canada and ca...
