Book Review: Dark Stars, part 3

Dark Stars: New Tales Of Darkest Horror edited by John F.D. Taff, part 3

All The Things He Called Memories

There is no harm reduction just a couple psychologically fractured by covid lockdown. This is by Stephen Graham Jones. This was dumb with no sustained brilliance. This was turgid as the couple have unhealthy contempt for each other. There is no elucidation of the bollocks that takes place.

Trinity River's Blues

There is no civil responsibilities just portenous inertia. A woman is apprehensive. This is not compelling or unsettling.

The Familiar's Assistant

A man wants to be a vampire's assistnat. This was okay if derivitive. The man knows with certainty that the job of assistant should be his. This has no genuine chilling horror. The man acts as if he is an unassuming victim. He's constantly aggrieved and bitter and views the current assistant as his nemesis. There are no immediate tensions.

Best Lines:

“Only exist to please him.”

“Like her even less.”

“Sick of what her life had become.”

“Years of regrets.”

“Making our own problems.”

“Complete joylessness.”

“Convinced she was unlovable and the notion stuck.”