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Posted in Horror, Short Stories on Feb 23rd, 2009
reviewed by Rae Stabosz
This morning, for the umpteenth time, I looked on the Internet for reviews of the excellent collection of vampire stories Rivals of Dracula. I love this short story collection and want to see what others think.
But today, as usual, I found nothing. As close to Nada as it gets. A single short [...]
Posted in Short Stories on Feb 18th, 2009
reviewed by Tannia Ortiz-Lopès
In her latest book, Journeys, author Celia A. Leaman takes us on an odyssey of emotions while she shares seven well-crafted, profound, and intimate stories based on real life events laced with a touch of fantasy. Contrary to her other two fiction books Who is Margaret, What is [...]
Posted in Literary Fiction, Short Stories on Nov 5th, 2008
Stories About the Last Days of Poe, Dickinson, Twain, James, and Hemingway
reviewed by John Murphy
Wild Nights! The latest from Joyce Carol Oates, prolific novelist and essayist, is a dizzying hall-of-mirrors where she presides over a literary seance, calling from the deep five legends of American letters: Edgar Allan Poe, Emily Dickinson, Mark Twain, Henry James, [...]
Posted in Literary Fiction, Short Stories on Sep 25th, 2008
by Tobias Wolff
reviewed by John Murphy
Our Story Begins collects new and older short-stories by Tobias Wolff, one of America’s acknowledged masters of the genre. Wolff-hounds will recognize canonical works like “Hunters in the Snow,” “Bullet in the Brain,” and “In the Garden of the North American Martyrs,” short-form masterpieces that have long-since established Wolff’s reputation as a top-tier [...]
Posted in Short Stories on Mar 24th, 2008
reviewed by Tannia E. Ortiz-Lopes
Island Stories is a collection of three previously published fiction stories. Some of the author’s stories and themes repeat from other publications, but the drama and the outcomes take on a different flavour and an interesting end in this humorous collection.
Ms. Leaman has the ability to convert common life situations into [...]
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