Recommendations from our site
“I think M. John Harrison is one of our best living writers. He’s underrated because he works in genre fiction. And this is the highest quality volume of stories he’s ever produced. They’re not explicitly about ghosts; they’re often just ideas – sometimes sketches, sometimes a paragraph, sometimes a page – which have this kernel of bitter humour and unknowability in them. Then in the midst of them there’s this almost-straight ghost story, ‘Animals,’ which is probably my favourite.” Read more...
Will Maclean, Novelist