Michael Adams

Great Lovecraftian Tales

Revisado: 08-23-18

Excellent anthology focusing, one tale each, on the “gods” and alien races featured in the works of H.P. Lovecraft. Some standout stories include “In Their Presence” by Christopher Golden & James A Moore, “In the Mad Mountains” by Joe R Lansdale, and “A Dying of the Light” by Rachel Caine, though all the tales were well done. Strongly recommended to fans of Lovecraft seeking fresh new approaches to his familiar material.

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Fantastic and Fascinating Stories

Revisado: 08-01-18

I have been a fan of Mike Clelland’s blog, the Hidden Experience, for a number of years, and this book, and The Messengers, to which this is a companion piece, are fascinating insights into the elusive connection between owl encounters and the UFO phenomenon. There is such a wealth of anecdotes out there connecting the two, and his research compiling these stories has been an incredible feat. These are human stories, brushes with the inexplicable and unusual, manifesting in powerful religious experiences and transformative moments in people’s lives. The author reads these stories wonderfully, with a warm, avuncular voice that is equally calming and engaging. I highly recommend this book to anyone who is as fascinated with magic, high strangeness, and the generally unexplainable side of the world we live in.

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An Enchanting LGBT Fairy-tale Romance

Revisado: 02-16-18

If you could sum up In the Eyes of Mr Fury in three words, what would they be?

Enchanting, Magical, Meaningful

What did you like best about this story?

This is a sweet, charming, witty, and ultimately powerful book. A multi-generational LGBT tale of love and loss, and of struggling to come to terms with who one is in the face of hostility and adversity. In the Eyes of Mr Fury is part bildungsroman, part romance, part fairy-tale, and positively filled with secrets, friends, lovers, betrayals, and the power of story-telling thanks to a rather remarkable story-teller named Mama Zepp. I was very impressed and totally enchanted by this novel and would recommend it to anyone who could benefit from the world being a little bit more of a magical place.

Which character – as performed by Matthew Lyon – was your favorite?

Matthew Lyon literally handles a complete cast of characters; from average men to bombastic blowhards, demure women, manipulative women, strong women, elderly women, little children, shy youths, and headstrong teens, and performs each uniquely and compassionately. As a listener you will have no trouble even in scenes between two individuals of the same age and gender telling them apart.

Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?

I listened to the novel in parts, which fit well with its episodic nature.

Any additional comments?

I very much enjoyed this book and hope others do as well

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Comic Book Biography

Revisado: 12-16-17

I loved this book! Partly an autobiography, partly a high-level comic book history lesson, partly a series of in-depth critical reviews and essays about various iconic comic book works from the 80’s, 90’s, and 00’s. Intelligent, articulate, and meaningful observations on an often under appreciated art form from one of it’s most daring auteurs. Highly recommended to classic and modern comic book aficionados.

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Become a Greater Ventriloquist

Revisado: 03-26-17

This is an incredible collection, both dark and imaginative. Also, even though this is a collection of short stories rather than a single novel, it very effectively uses repeated motifs and common set-pieces to posit its very own mythos of lesser and greater ventriloquists. Lesser ventriloquists are those we're familiar with, voice throwers and puppeteers, the greater variety? They can make dummies of the very world around them, pulling peoples strings to tragic and devastating effect. The structure of these stories vary from straight-forward storytelling to the truest form of non-linear dream-logic imaginable. This is profoundly unique and intelligent weird-horror fiction, and I couldn't recommend it more.

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Solid Pulp Horror stories

Revisado: 05-24-15

I would say that Hugh B. Cave was not a great innovator, but a solid and capable writer in the terse pulp fiction style. His fiction consists of vampires, voluptuous women, men of action, and the mad. His writing reminds one of pulp era tales of the criminal underworld, with quick paced action, smoking revolvers, and fists connecting squarely with jaws, but his antagonists tend to the supernatural and science fictional rather than your run-of-the-mill gangsters and gun molls. All in all an enjoyable collection of pulp horror tales.

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