Needles & Sins John Everson 9781456437947 Books
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Roses scented with bitter deception. Oracles redolent in hidden redemption. A body-mod-obsessed ingenue with an amputee fetish. A demon gone soft on a bitter angel. Dreamcatchers. An alternate Nativity with a pimp God and a non-compliant Mary. Stupid Bitch the three-legged cat. The secret explanation of how Germany almost won the war with the devil on their side. These are just a few of the provocative sets in these 19 stories rife with "Needles & Sins"... Featuring a ton of new fiction and some hard-to-find reprints Needles & Sins Something Inside The Strong Will Survive Beginning Was the End Letting Go The Char-Lee Bloodroses Made For Each Other Spirits Having Flown Warming the Women Mary Green Green Glass Devil's Platoon Mutilation Street Love & Sex & Rope & Screams A Circus in Five Acts And Then Some After the Fifth Step Birth and Death You Never Got Used to the Needle Irrelevant in Anathzebra
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Needles & Sins John Everson 9781456437947 Books Reviews
If you are a true fan of horror- you need to have this book. It is as simple and short as that. John Everson is destined to be a household name-wouldn't you like to know that you were there at the start.
PS Gifford
Recieved the book at a signing .. the Milwaukee Massacre .. and read it till it was done .. all the stories are so creepy dark good .. my favorite being ... After the First Step ... Can't go wrong with this one ...and can't wait for more !!
John Everson has done it again. He lavishes the utmost love and care on his darkest fantasies before slowly, torturously executing them before our eyes. As you get to the most juicy parts (which I won't spoil here), you can imagine him grinning. Everson's voice and twisted imagery will stay with you long after you should be asleep. His vivid style made it seem like I was watching a movie inside my mind--he is one of the most evocative modern horror writers I have ever read.
Absolutely Excellent! A terrifying journey through the mind of John Everson. Needles and Sin's is a page turner that will keep you up at night. Both for the next tale and hope for just one happy ending that will let you sleep. It never comes. Which is what sets this collection apart from the rest. An angel of vengence, an angel of lust. A forlorn family of murderers, the tragic tale of haunted vanity. If your imagination doesn't come alive during the narative's, then they will certainly haunt your dreams. As if the first fourteen stories in the collection aren't enough, John offers us one more terrifying tale in five acts. Sometimes almost whimsicle, then terrifying. A new addition to the realm of short story horror comes a welcome dose of dread.
-Horror Holocaust [...]
I know you wouldn't think the word 'Love' would be in a review of a book with this title but Everson's collection contains stories that do sing of love and darkness in a way that wouldn't let me put down this book. I enjoyed every story in this collection, my favorites were Letting Go, The Beginning was The End, The Devil's Platoon, The Char-Lee. Everson knows how to tell a story, his characters and settings pull you in and don't let you go until he's ready to. Highly recommend this book.
What a thrill to have met this author at the 2008 World Horror Convention in Salt Lake City, casually talk to him about writing and discover John to be a soft spoken, oh yeah he lost his voice traveling to the convention, truly nice guy.
I find when reading a collection of short stories there are usually a few I'm not fond of with but John's collection I found myself turning pages, drinking cold coffee cause I wouldn't put the book down for an instant and realized this is without a doubt one of the best gathering of horror tales compiled into a novel I have read.
Two time Bram Stoker award-winning author John Everson plunges deep into the gory syrup of what makes horror writers wish they had written these 19 stories of "Needles & Sins," and readers of the dark and twisted screech with parched throats as they cradle this treasure of a book.
Having published nearly 100 short stories, winning the Stoker for Covenant in 2004 and Sacrifice in 2007, I suspect he's in line for another with this book
My favorite story, if there is one, OK there's a three way tie, The Char-Lee, "He stood, gore dripping down the hair of his chest like perspiration."
Mutilation Street, "The best part is, when she gets really wicked, she stuffs chunks of his bloody colon into the fridge after he's passed out and then fries them up for him to eat with his eggs in the morning. Talk about a breakfast that sticks to your ribs.
And The Devils Platoon, how Germany almost won the war, with a sacrifice, an alliance with Satan, and the Devil on their side.
Bottom line, you can't go wrong with this one...
John Everson, Needles and Sins (Necro Publications, 2007)
You've read the reviews. You may have even already read Charlee Jacob's intro. You don't need me to tell you that Needles and Sins is a barnburner, the kind of book of horror shorts that will keep you up at night munching on chips and finishing just one more story the same way EverCrack had you finishing just one more quest. So what am I going to do different? Everyone else is focusing on the horror stories here. And they're good, though I'm not quite sure some of them are all they're cracked up to be ("Mutilation Street", in particular, which Jacob singles out in her intro, strikes me as a gimmicky one-trick pony that could have been so much more than it is). I'm going to focus on the two non-horror stories here, which are, perhaps not coincidentally, the two stories that kick this book up from being good to being in the realm of Greg Gifune good and Vincent Sakowski good and Thomas Ligotti good and Richard-Christian-Matheson-when-he-wrote-"Red" good.
The first is "Spirits Having Flown", and if I had to try and pigeonhole it into a genre, I'd call it an urban fantasy story, but that would be doing it a great disservice, in that it's a fantasy that takes place in an urban (and distinctly grungy, which is an atmosphere at which Mr. Everson excels in creating) setting, but it has none of the hallmarks you've come to expect if you've read half a dozen novels tagged that way. No, this is more "urban fantasy" like Gifune writes, mythical creatures that intrude on the lives of us normal folks, but without the whole us normal folks finding out we're half-faerie or whatever the hell. Specifically, in this case, "Spirits Having Flown" focuses on a pair of down-and-out drunks, one of whom has just shuffled off this mortal coil and is being mourned by his family--who didn't know he still existed, or those few that did didn't give a tinker's--and his best friend/housemate, who absolutely did. I wish we'd gotten more about these two guys than we did, especially the narrator, whose tale of "how I got to this state" is as perfunctory as they come, but there's no denying the emotional power this story packs.
The second, and one I haven't seen mentioned in a single review (and why, for the love of ink?), is "You Never Got Used to the Needle," the best piece in this book by a country mile, and the fourth installment in the five-story cycle that finishes the book, a loose collection that surrounds a down-and-out, increasingly-desperate circus endlessly touring the American heartland. At the end of "Birth and Death", Talman, its protagonist, has skirted certain death by joining up with the circus as its tattooed man, looking for a better life than the one he left behind. "Every town was the same.", the omniscient narrator tells us from Talman's POV. "Every town had a tattoo parlor that blared its trade in neon screams and called to young and old to decorate the skeins of their lives in garish ink." (--225) But Talman finds that Parkville, Illinois is not the same at all, and the tattoo artist who fills the space just above his heart unlocks gifts that Talman didn't know he had (yep, you can call this one another urban fantasy, though it's more in the current-definition vein), and tasks Talman with the choice of whether to use those powers to do good, do evil, or try to spend the rest of his life burying them. You'd think it would be an easy choice. But Talman, as damaged as he is, is not one to embrace the role of superhero lightly. I'll admit it--I shed a few tears at the end of this one. It's one of the best pieces of short fiction I've read in the last few years in any genre.
(And without trying to be spoily, this, as well as the other three stories that precede it in the cycle, set up the grand-guignol finale in "Irrelephant in Anathzebra", and while I know in my heart that my desire to fling the book against the wall halfway through this story, cover it in kerosene, and burn it means the damn thing was doing its job, but it makes me hate John Everson not one whit less for being so effective, and I've spent the last four days adjusting the rating on this book between 2.5 and 4.5 stars because "Irrelephant in Anathzebra" pisses me off so much. Which was, of course, exactly the reaction Mr. Everson was looking for. There's even an extra-nasty twist of the knife towards the end that will scrape bone if you have children.)
If Everson ever ends up turning out a book of shorts that all have the same attention to character development, pacing, and plot as "You Never Got Used to the Needle," it will be one for the ages. Until then, Needles and Sins will do very nicely to tide you over. Most of it's good. Some of it's damn good. And some of it's great. ****
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