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Reviews (7)
28 January 2020
Deal, deal...deal
Classic style that never goes out of fashion. The leather band is woirth twenty alone.
06 March 2020
Amazing book.
Everybody should read this book.
31 May 2019
Tibbits of classic terror
First the book itself. It's a very nicely bound hardcover with a superb cover painting and a nice surprise, some relevant and sometimes darkly humorous illustrations. The stories P.S. Gifford tells are tidbits in the style of classic, mostly "quiet" horror... but they are a twisted lot, certainly. Borrowing from the atmospheric canon and sometimes a voice reminiscent of Poe and Hawthorne and James, and blending in the spirit of Rod Serling (more Night Gallery than Twilight Zone, but both are in the ballpark), Gifford imbues his vignettes with a humorously cynical darkness that sticks with you. Whether presenting innocents faced with the prospect of tasting the "long pork," or women frustrated with a clueless or useless husband, or hapless criminals contemplating a crime beyond their abilities, or victims of Sad Fortune (and sometimes they are the same person), Gifford delivers the kind of story that jabs slivers under your nails or needles and pins in your eyes. The sharply drawn portraits are all the more effective for their overall brevity, with the longest running a half-dozen pages and some barely several pages, and delivering their tiny thrusts in just the right tone. While in some ways the narrative style is a throwback, it's (for instance) the sparse use of contractions that helps create the illusion and contributes to the morality play atmosphere of these explorations of human nature and its frequent inhumanity. Containing 33 short but sharp "chapters," among them such highlights as "The Pair of Boots," "The Mainlanders," "Raw Talent," "Watts for Dinner," and "The Gastronome," (food is a recurring theme, as is drink...) the collection of Curiously Twisted Tales will enhance any rainy evening's reading and leave a taste for more of P.S. Gifford's mystery stew and skewed view of us and the world we inhabit, hapless as we may be in our efforts to improve our lot in life. These Tales are a spicy taste to be savored.
- WD Gagliani, author of Savage Nights