The Dark Country edition by Dennis Etchison Literature Fiction eBooks
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Etchison's fiction is justly famous for its creepy ambience, and explores the terrain mapped out by Philip K. Dick, Thomas Harris, and any number of black and white horror movies. This is his legendary first collection, carefully corrected by the author for this new edition. The title story won both the World Fantasy Award and the British Fantasy Award in 1982, the first time a single work received both major awards. Contents include 15 ground-breaking stories and an introduction by Ramsey Campbell.
Contents of this collection
It Only Comes Out at Night
Sitting in the Corner, Whimpering Quietly
The Walking Man
We Have All Been Here Before
Daughter of the Golden West
The Pitch
You Can Go Now
Today's Special
The Machine Demands a Sacrifice
Calling All Monsters
The Dead Line
The Late Shift
The Nighthawk
It Will Be Here Soon
Deathtracks
The Dark Country
"Dennis Etchison is one hell of a fiction writer, and if you have not read his volume of stories The Dark Country, you have missed one of the great volumes in our peculiar field. The stories are not just good; they are without exception exciting, and in some cases genuinely great." --Stephen King
"The finest writer of psychological horror this genre has produced." --Karl Edward Wagner
"The best short story writer in the field today, bar none." --Charles L. Grant
"Dennis Etchison is the finest writer of short stories working in this field, and the rest of us ought to learn from him." --Ramsey Campbell
"The most original living horror writer in America." --The Viking-Penguin Encyclopedia
The Dark Country edition by Dennis Etchison Literature Fiction eBooks
I had never heard of Dennis Etchison before reading this book, but I'm glad I finally discovered him. I've always thought horror worked better in short form. Building dread and tension doesn't feel as effective when you're dealing with the novel format, and it seems Etchison understands this as all of the works I've seen available are short story collections.Not every story in this collection is perfect (what collection is?), but I never found myself wanting to skip ahead or read the stories in a non-linear way. The writing is well-paced and filled with vivid descriptions that really pull you into the psyche's of the characters.
I look forward to reading more of his work.
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The Dark Country edition by Dennis Etchison Literature Fiction eBooks Reviews
Etchison is one of those rare horror writers who doesn't seem to be messing around. He's not trying to be scary, he's not trying to freak you out, he certainly isn't doing it tongue in cheek... he's just telling you a story, as well as he can-- it's just his imagination is naturally terrifying. This isn't an easy collection to shrug off. "It Only Comes out at Night" has bothered me for twenty years.
The most horrific, gut-wrenching, deeply-disturbing short tale I've read in my life?
Well, even 'after all these years,' I've got to write that it is D. Etchison's 'Daughter Of The Golden West.' In which a couple of college kids make the mistake of 'going too far,' whilst investigating the murder of their beloved classmate.
Suffice it to say that they meet up with, in among the most horrific endings in short-tale history, a few 'sisters.' Sisters, who, descended from from the Donner Party (members of which, due to potential starvation, had to resort to eating something, 'rather unpleasant'), have inherited a taste for...
Well, I'll let you get to the rest. In, The Dark Country
If you have not read this one, it is a treat, to state it mildly.
'Honorable Mentions' in most horrific short-story category - to me personally? Stephen King's 'A Good Marriage,' from Full Dark, No Stars. Charles L. Grant's 'If Damon Comes.' And, not to be dismissed lightly, Hawthorne's 'Young Goodman Brown.'
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Jeff.
"The Dark Country" was Dennis Etchison's first collection of short stories, and originally appeared back in 1982. This reader picked up an out-of-print copy recently, after seeing that it had been included in Jones and Newman's excellent overview volume, "Horror 100 Best Books." Well, I don't know if I would place it on MY personal top 100 list, but this book certainly is a unique collection of shuddery, gruesome little tales. Readers looking for horror stories depicting monsters, ghosts, demons and other manifestations of the supernatural would be best advised to look elsewhere; the only monsters in this volume are of the human kind, and the only demons are those found in the minds of the assorted oddball characters. These are all very much (post)modernistic stories, and there are no crumbling castles or Carpathian villages to be found. Some of the tales even take place in the not-too-distant future, and have a decidedly sci-fi overtone. Without exception, every story herein is a distinct little gem, but like gems, some of them are flawed.
For me, these flaws take the form of either too much or not enough information. In some of these tales, such as "You Can Go Now," Etchison gives us loads of detail, and at the story's end, it all seemingly doesn't add up to very much. In others, such as "Today's Special," one feels that not enough has been supplied to fully "get" the story. Etchison is a very stylish writer--sometimes almost too stylish--and that flashy style often comes at the expense of clarity. Often, these stories must be reread in order to pick up on hints missed on the first go-round. Or perhaps one will feel compelled to reread lines, just to revel in the frequent beauty of the writing. Etchison certainly does have a handy way with a simile; for instance, when he writes "...the sky...was turning a soft, tropical orange of the kind one expects to see only on foreign postage stamps." Or when he writes "The river smelled like dead stars." Yes, the ol' boy certainly does know how to write descriptive and imaginative prose, and in MOST of the cases here, that prose is in the service of tales that do hit the reader squarely.
One of my favorite tales in the collection is one of the most straightforward "Daughter of the Golden West." It concerns a bunch of gals who are decidedly, um, man hungry. There is a loosely linked trilogy of tales concerning organ transplants (these are the tales that tend to sci-fi) that are also very well done. Other tales in the book will make readers never look at butcher shops, or salesmen, or clairvoyants, or oral sex, or laugh tracks, or late-night convenience store clerks in quite the same way ever again. For every head scratcher of a story in the book, there are two killers. So yes, the book is a mixed bag of sorts, but even the problematic tales hold one's interest and invite reexamination. After finishing these 16 morbid little stories, I was sorry to see the book end. Etchison's is certainly a unique voice in the horror field, and if other readers have a similar reaction to mine, they will feel compelled to read more of him. This is, as I mentioned up top, an unusual collection, and I do recommend it.
Yech! This was probably the worst book of short stories I have ever read.
Simply put, collected here are some of the very best horror short stories ever written. Etchison is a master, and sadly underappreciated. His imagination is amazing, his style beautiful. If you want to study the craft of writing excellent horror short stories, this one should definitely be on your reading list.
The DARK COUNTRY is a great collection of stories that range from the eerily subtle to the memorably disturbing without little-to-no intense gore or excessive violence. The most haunting story for me was the first one, "It Only Comes Out at Night", because I think it sets the tone for the rest of the collection. If you prefer creepy tales of unease, this is collection is a perfect choice.
Still reading this one. Thought it was a novel but it is short stories. I kept waiting to see how all the people would connect and at 47% through it I realized they would not. Some pretty weird tales so far. If they do connect later on, forgive me for jumping the shark. If not, take my advice and read through those lengthy prologues. They really DO have info in them-sometimes!
I had never heard of Dennis Etchison before reading this book, but I'm glad I finally discovered him. I've always thought horror worked better in short form. Building dread and tension doesn't feel as effective when you're dealing with the novel format, and it seems Etchison understands this as all of the works I've seen available are short story collections.
Not every story in this collection is perfect (what collection is?), but I never found myself wanting to skip ahead or read the stories in a non-linear way. The writing is well-paced and filled with vivid descriptions that really pull you into the psyche's of the characters.
I look forward to reading more of his work.
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