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At Home in the Dark

by Lawrence Block
Peter Berkrot
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The crime fiction canopy's a broad one, with room to give shelter to writing of all sorts, as editor Lawrence Block shows with At Home in the Dark: "Some of these stories have one or both feet planted in another genre. James Reasoner's story is a period western, Joe Lansdale's is bleakly dystopian, and Joe Hill's novelette slithers through a little doorway into another world. And now that I've singled out those three, I suppose I should go ahead and list the rest of the gang: N. J. Ayres, Laura Benedict, Jill D. Block, Richard Chizmar, Hilary Davidson, Jim Fusilli, Elaine Kagan, Warren Moore, Joyce Carol Oates, Ed Park, Nancy Pickard, Thomas Pluck, Wallace Stroby, and Duane Swierczynski. If you're looking for a common denominator, two come to mind. They're all dark stories, with nothing cozy or comforting about them. And every last one of them packs a punch. Which is to say that they're all very much At Home in the Dark—and we can thank O. Henry, master of the surprise ending, for our title. 'Turn up the lights,' he said on his deathbed. 'I don't want to go home in the dark.'"
Contains mature themes.

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  • Release date

    November 10, 2020

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    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9781705258095
      • File size: 323508 KB
      • Duration: 11:13:58

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Publisher's Weekly

      March 4, 2019
      This above average anthology features an eclectic mix of 17 stories, which MWA Grand Master Block (the Matthew Scudder mysteries) labels dark in preference to noir, though they’re by no means as dark as dark has gotten in recent fiction. One highlight is “The Senior Girls Bayonet Drill Team,” a dystopian tale of a new arena blood sport, in which even Joe Lansdale—famed for gonzo excess—holds back on gore and piles on implication. Also notable are Laura Benedict’s “This Strange Bargain,” which works a modern variant on Hansel and Gretel, and Wallace Stroby’s “Nightbound,” which puts his series heroine Crissa Stone through an action-packed woodchopper when her robbery of a Dominican gang money drop goes south. A small portal in Maine gives big game hunters armed entry to Fairyland in Joe Hill’s unsettling “Faun.” On the minus side, some tales suffer from overwriting and characters expending too many pages thinking deep thoughts. Weak endings mar others. Still, crime fiction fans will find plenty to like. Agent: Danny Baror, Baror International.

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