Hunting by the River By Daniel Carpenter

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Full review at Happy Goat Horror a good collection Some really weird ideas a great mix of tone atmosphere and subgenre and some great dark humour 172 Hunting by the RiverIn this debut collection of short stories Dan Carpenter explores urban horror in a way I ve not seen before In stories set all over England we delve into these places and the people in them Each story felt like swooping down into a new area and having a brief view of what was happening there before plucked away and transported somewhere else These stories are not scary in the traditional sense They have a very quiet darkness about them that can often be unsettling than outright horror There is a sense of dread and unease in all of these stories and it isn t always clear what is going on aside from that uncomfortable feeling that something isn t right All of the stories are pretty short the book itself is only around 170 pages and there are 14 stories packed in I liked how not all of them had a resolution and sometimes the story seemed to end quite abruptly As I said before it often felt like being plucked out of story before it was quite finished and although this may not be everyone s cup of tea I thought it very nicely added to general unease and disquiet of the book 172 This is a cool collection of assorted horror themes and subgenres My favourites are Hunting by the River Habitual and Stabbed in the Neck by Dot Cotton 172 This was a bleak collection of stories about forgotten places and the people that inhabit them it s. Book hunting by the river nc how to describe it A little bit odd a little bit creepy Like a weird pub crawl around England I thought it was extremely well written with pacy prose I flew through this I actually found it hard to put down I thought the settings often mirrored the characters own emotions forgotten pushed out I thought there was a running theme throughout of the inevitability of change I do tend to read too much into things sometimes so don t know if thats just me for shorter stories the characters felt fully fleshed out and each story was evocative in nature whether it s creeping me out or making me feel sad some stories are left without a resolution which adds to the disturbing unnerving energy of this collection if you re a fan of the weird bizzare horror you ll definitely want to pick this up I m looking forward to seeing what Carpenter writes next 172 Carpenter s debut collection is superb a welcome addition to the canon of the urban weird Set across Manchester London and a few unloved corners of England the book is full of great ideas executed well Stink Pit follows a group of hunt saboteurs who wonder if one of their number might be an undercover cop in Gods Kings a man finds out his old uni mate has become a neo Nazi A few experimental pieces like Flotsam and Myrmidons I found less effective the stories here are at their best when tethered to a specific location Carpenter is great at communicating a sort of authentic griminess that speaks to the reality of living in these places rather than simply an uncomplicated nostalgia. Book hunting by the river review Two of the best are Manchester stories Hunting by the River about a man s search for his missing sister boasts some incredible creepy details Beneath the Pavement the Beach with its series of parallel cities is so ambitious it could easily be expanded into a novel I d already read the London rental nightmare story Habitual which appears in the anthology For Tomorrow and it fits really well into this collection in fact better here than in the anthology Another favourite A Visitors Guide to Penge Magic Annotated is a spellbinding strange story that plays out across the pages of a doubly annotated historical diary Read this book if you ve loved anything by Joel Lane or Gary Budden The Magnus Archives or the Portals of London blog 172 A really good collection of horror and weird fiction tales With a great approach to making urban environments that much creepier highly recommended Full review 172

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It feels like this whole place is infected like someone buried something here and its roots were rotten and dead and it s coming up and it s growing Soon enough it ll sprout and then we ll be breathing it in A builder unearths a hand buried on a building site a woman with a unique way of speaking to the dead comes across her toughest client to date a young man returns to his hometown desperately searching for his missing sister In his debut collection Daniel Carpenter explores places and the people who get lost in them From Manchester to London as well as the uncanny fringes of England these are stories that span the breadth of the Weird Hunting by the River.