· Burnt Black Suns is the fourth collection from modern weird fiction maestro Simon Strantzas, and will definitely be a strong contender for horror collection of the year. Strantzas is one of the finest, and I've yet to see him publish a weak collection of fiction. Instead, with each collection his skills continue to grow and bltadwin.ruted Reading Time: 4 mins. Praise For Burnt Black Suns “With Burnt Black Suns, Strantzas continues a trajectory into deeper darkness and in some respects the odyssey has brought him closer to the primal core of the tradition and its rawest, purest essentials.”-From Laird Barron’s foreword. Burnt Black Suns: A Collection of Weird Tales. by. Simon Strantzas (Goodreads Author), Laird Barron (Goodreads Author) (Foreword) · Rating details · ratings · 53 reviews. In this fourth collection of stories, Simon Strantzas establishes himself as one of the most dynamic figures in contemporary weird fiction. The nine stories in this volume exhibit Strantzas’s wide range in theme and subject matter, /5.
About Simon Strantzas Simon Strantzas is the author of Nothing is Everything (Undertow Publications, ), Burnt Black Suns(Hippocampus Press, ), Nightingale Songs (Dark Regions Press, ), Cold to the Touch (Tartarus Press, ), and Beneath the Surface (Humdrumming, ), and is the editor of Aickman's Heirs(Undertow Publications, ), Shadows Edge (Gray Friar Press, ), and. Simon Strantzas' Burnt Black Suns is a cut above the majority of dark fiction anthologies available. I find that many genre fiction stories reduce characters to one dimensional figures and focus on the plot happening, without much effort to connect the characteristics of an individual to the events of the story. Burnt Black Suns Quotes Showing of 6 "The human primate has evolved, but we still grow canines, we make fire, and keep our weapons and our dogs close to hand." ― Simon Strantzas, Burnt Black Suns: A Collection of Weird Tales.
"The stories of Simon Strantzas exemplify a style of horror that might be compared to the novellas of T. E. D. Klein."-Thomas Ligotti " Burnt Black Suns demonstrates Strantzas's remarkable narrative skills, his unerring, feverish sense of pace, and his absolute willingness to hurl himself into the darkest ranges of his excellent imagination."-Peter Straub. Burnt Black Suns. In May , Simon Strantzas released his fourth weird fiction collection from Hippocampus Press. It contained nine stories with two novellas and seven short stories. S. T. Joshi called it "one of the best weird collections [he’s] ever read—at least in the last 20 years and maybe longer than that.". Hippocampus Press Burnt Black Suns by Simon Strantzas - A Collection of Weird Tales Foreword by Laird Barron Cover artwork by Santiago Caruso ISBN: pages May EPUB e-book available “The stories of Simon Strantzas exemplify a style of horror that might be compared to the novellas of T. E. D. Klein.”—Thomas Ligotti “I gather Thomas Ligotti finds similarities in.
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