![]() ![]() This was such a weird concept that it took my brain a few pages to come to terms with Art not being imaginary. The pacing was a tad off, and the telling itself was uneven and occasionally difficult to follow, but I really liked the feel.Ī boy’s childhood best friend is inflatable. I love the idea that those who are literally haunted by their pasts came together not to exorcize it, but to honor it. The melancholy air makes the entire story. This was a dark one, that would make a great movie.Ī theater is haunted, but the ghost in question just wants to talk about movies. I love how the ending of the story mirrored in tone and inevitability the story that our main character was so infatuated with. Below are micro-reviews of each story.Īn editor falls in love with a very dark story by an even more mysterious author, and becomes obsessed with finding him. In a collection of 15 stories, I’d say that’s a pretty fantastic achievement. That being said, I really enjoyed my time with this collection, and there wasn’t a single story that I legitimately hated. ![]() ![]() It was more even across the board, but that meant that there were fewer that stood out to me. However, I also found the individual stories largely less memorable. As a whole, I think it might be a touch stronger than Full Throttle, a more recent short story collection of his I read in 2019. 20th Century Ghosts is not the first short story collection I’ve read by Hill, but it’s the first one he released. ![]()
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