We continue with the Summer of Sleaze:
my latest post, this one on '90s horror writer
Kathe Koja and the late lamented Dell/Abyss line of paperbacks, went up on Tor on Friday. Fellow reviewer
Grady Hendrix and I are only halfway through, so more to come. Hope you guys are digging the series!
This is a great series. Enjoying it very much.
ReplyDeleteBut on Koja we have very different opinions. I read most of the Dell books, and thought the whole line very weak. The only title which left an impression of being something different was McDowell's novel Toplin. But especially Koja I perceived as boring and plotless, very pretentious in style. I enjoy literary horror fiction, but these books just tried to hard.
I've been (slowly) reading through Ann and Jeff VanderMeers' massive anthology The Weird and recently read Koja's "Angels in Love." I was incredibly impressed and will now be on the lookout for more Koja. Thanks for the post.
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