protean depravity

Alex Grass is the author of several horror, SF and dark fantasy novels based in Brooklyn, NYC. His new book "Infernal Tramps: Tales of Weird Terror", a short story collection of seventeen short stories that I reviewed here , will be published this summer, on July 15th, by the Dickinson Publishing Group. I was mesmerized and delighted by this collection and even more delighted when Alex accepted an interview with Protean Depravity... 

I'm lagging seriously behind my schedule for this Stephen King short story re-read, and so here we are at almost one collection per year... I was hoping I could do at least two or even three per year... Still, we're finally at the point where I'm done with  Skeleton Crew , and for that I'll be discussing the remaining short stories  Morning Deliveries (Milkman No. 1) , its companion piece  Big Wheels: A Tale of the Laundry Game (Milkman No. 2) , the terrifying Gramma ,  The Ballad of the Flexible Bullet , and last but not least  The Reach . I still have to review The Monkey , which I'll be doing under the "Based on Books" column in comparison with its film adaptation by Oz Perkins. Our next short story collection will be Nightmares & Dreamscapes published in 1993 (There are a couple of novella collections which I'm skipping because we're interested in shorts stories only here!). So, having set the record straight, let's get to it!  As usua...

Hello and hi! I hope you're starting a great and sunny week. I have been reading older stuff these past weeks, like Donoso's The Obscene Bird of Night , that has been beleaguering my tbr for years, or 'Pemi Aguda's Ghostroots that I wanted to read ever since its publication a couple of years ago. I'm always proud of myself when I can cross titles out of my backlist, so consider this post a success! I hope you enjoy it too and find something you'd like to read, even if it's not brand new.