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"All that we see or seem, is but a dream within a dream." --Edgar Allan PoeThe Lizard's Ardent Uniform and Other Stories (Veridical Dreams Vol. I) takes you on several voyages into every day nightmares, bizarre detours, and hellish worlds. Enlisting the talents of authors Chris F. Holm (Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine), Terrie Farley Moran (Well Read, Then Dead), Patti Abbott (Home Invasion), Evan V. Corder, Steve Weddle (Needle: A Magazine of Noir), Hilary Davidson (The Damage Done), and Garnett Elliott (Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine), thought-provoking fragments from the dream journals of Kyle J. Knapp (writer and poet of Pluvial Gardens and Celebrations in the Ossuary, who passed away in 2013 at the age of twenty-three) are fleshed out into seven stirring tales of crime, science fiction, literary, and fantasy. Edited and with an introduction by BEAT to a PULP's David Cranmer.Stories:The Lizard's Ardent Uniform -- Chris F. HolmDust to Dust -- Terrie Farley MoranTwin Talk -- Patti AbbottThe Malignant Reality -- Evan V. Corder (including "The Needles" poem by Kyle J. Knapp)Ghosts in the Fog -- Steve WeddleThe Debt -- Hilary DavidsonThe Zygma Gambit -- Garnett ElliottA portion of the proceeds from this collection will go to higher education. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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The book opens with “The Lizard's Ardent Uniform” by Chris F. Holm. Kyle Williams was forced to leave Boston and move to Santa Fe, New Mexico when his dad got a job at Ardent Industries. It wasn’t what he wanted to do, but at least he got a cool telescope out of the move. The third grader has been putting it to good use and seeing things in the skies above that he never would have been able to see in the old neighborhood on Beacon Hill in Boston. He's never seen a bright light beaming in from space to light up somebody or something out in the yard at 3:17 am before now either.
It may have been nearly 40 years since she has been back to Granny's farm in “Dust to Dust” by Terrie Farley Moran. The past was just too painful to revisit and it still seems like just yesterday. The road might be paved now and the nearby barns and silos might have been replaced by malls and tract housing, but the legacy is still present. She just doesn't know how deep it runs.
Author Patti Abbott appears in quite a lot of anthologies and her work is always good. Such is the case here with “Twin Talk.” Wendy comes home from work to find her twin daughters doing that cat’s cradle thing with a skein of yarn again. What seemed weird and pointless at age 8 seems even more so at 13. Then there is their obsession with tying fancy knots. That isn't all that bothers mom about her daughters who renamed themselves some time back, Judith and Lilith.
Seeing things is just part of the problem in “The Malignant Reality” by Evan V. Corder. At first he thought the flashes were some sort of after effect from the old days when he used LSD now and then. Instead, it is something far more sinister in this strange tale set in upstate New York that has nothing at all to do with fiddles or Georgia.
Steve Weddle is up next with his “Ghosts in the Fog.” In the wake of an incident Mr. Danny Crawford discovers that his cousin Brent is in another wing of the hospitable undergoing surgery. Danny and Brent managed to get themselves in a mess and trying to explain what they did and why they did it isn't easy.
It begins with a hitchhiker that has bloody blistered feet in “The Debt” by Hilary Davidson. A car is pulling up and he has things to do.
A story titled “The Zygma Gambit” by Garnett Elliot brings the stories in the book to a close. Having the dream in his room, instead of the Precog bays means the dream is very powerful and will come true. Kyler Knightly has to get to work in April 2223 A. D. and protect human history.
Author bios and a poem by Kyle Knapp bring this well done book to a close.
Reviewing a collection or an anthology can be very tough if the book features complicated stories as one has to work to make sure one does not reveal a spoiler. Such is the case here as the seven tales presented are all good ones that push the boundaries in small and big ways. If you like considering the idea that there is far more going on than meets the eye this book is for you. A crime is present in many of the tales, but the tale itself might be fantasy, fiction or something else. The Lizard’s Ardent Uniform & Other Stories: Veridical Dreams Vol. 1. is one of those rare deals where each story is incredible good making the read simply fantastic from start to finish.
The Lizard’s Ardent Uniform & Other Stories: Veridical Dreams Vol. 1.
Edited By David Cranmer
http://www.davidcranmer.com
Beat To A Pulp
http://www.beattoapulp.com
June 2014
ISBN# 978-0991203994
E-book (also available in print)
130 Pages
$6.05
E-book version supplied by the editor in exchange for my objective review.
Kevin R. Tipple ©2014 ( )