Who Would Like This Book:
Brian Evenson delivers a buffet of weird, unnerving tales that blend horror, dark humor, and slices of reality-bending surrealism. The stories are often short, punchy, and laced with creeping dread or a sly sense of wrongness. His minimalist, clinical style has echoes of the Twilight Zone with a squirm-inducing edge. If you like inventive, literary horror that doesn't rely on gore, or if you're drawn to unsettling fiction that tickles nihilistic or existential nerves, this is a must-try. Fans of cosmic, psychological, and speculative horror - especially lovers of short story anthologies - will be right at home here.
Who May Not Like This Book:
Some readers found the stories a bit repetitive and the tone too cold or clinical for their taste. If you prefer horror with clear resolutions, detailed worldbuilding, or a traditional narrative arc, you might end up frustrated: a few tales are deliberately ambiguous or seem to end with a shrug. Also, if you're looking for emotional warmth or likeable characters, you'll probably find the collection too bleak or impersonal. Those averse to "weird for weird's sake" or surreal fiction might also bounce off the book.
About:
Song for the Unraveling of the World by Brian B.K. Evenson is a collection of short stories that delve into the realms of uncanny horror and weird fiction. The stories are described as creepy, mind-bending, and completely unlike anything readers have encountered before. Evenson's writing style is noted for its flawless quality, evoking a sense of unease and dread through deceptively simple premises and clinical prose. The narratives touch on themes of entities moving into other bodies, leaving readers questioning and intrigued, while also offering a unique and different reading experience.
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Sensitive Topics/Content Warnings
Content warnings include themes of violence, psychological trauma, existential dread, and potentially disturbing scenarios.
From The Publisher:
A newborn's absent face appears on the back of someone else's head, a filmmaker goes to gruesome lengths to achieve the silence he's after for his final scene, and a therapist begins, impossibly, to appear in a troubled patient's room late at night. In these stories of doubt, delusion, and paranoia, no belief, no claim to objectivity, is immune to the distortions of human perception. Here, self-deception is a means of justifying our most inhuman impulses-whether we know it or not.
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1 comment(s)
Hit and miss for me, but liked the creepy house story.
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Song for the Unraveling of the World?
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