Tuesday, June 19, 2018

Hasty for the Dark: Selected Horrors



Hasty for the Dark: Selected Horrors (2017) by Adam L.G. Nevill: containing the following stories:

  • On All London Underground Lines (2010): A bad day getting to work on the London Underground gets progressively worse. 
  • The Angels of London (2013): Some cheap apartments come at a great cost. Manages to be both cosmically and normatively creepy. The characteristics of the apartment super will be reprised in No One Gets Out Alive, though not the actual character. He's a stunning bit of punk-Dickensian grotesquery.
  • Always in Our Hearts (2013): Some cab drivers are jerks. Almost an EC Comics Revenge story.
  • Eumenides (The Benevolent Ladies) (2017): Sometimes a zoo is not the zoo you expect. A fine Robert Aickman homage.
  • The Days of Our Lives (2016): A really bad relationship.
  • Hippocampus (2015): Something is wrong with the container ship.
  • Call the Name (2015): A really solid H.P. Lovecraft homage using the lens of some contemporary thinking on evolution.
  • White Light, White Heat (2016): A dystopic look at the politics and economic of publishing. 
  • Little Black Lamb (2017): Murder sites and a dandy nod to Ramsey Campbell.


Overall: Highly recommended collection of horror stories from Adam Nevill running the gamut from the gross-out to the cosmic and visionary, sometimes in the same story. His grip on setting and the vagaries of disturbed though often sympathetic personalities is sure throughout, and none of the horrors are stereotypical; rather the opposite. This is Nevill's second collection from his own imprint, bringing the stories he wants to have collected up to the present-day (as of 2017, anyway).

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