Review: Water For Drowning by Ray Cluley
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This Is Horror editor Michael Wilson certainly has a knack for picking great stories for inclusion in the website’s ongoing series of chapbooks and the latest, Water For Drowning by Ray Cluley, is no exception. Following in the very large footsteps of past entries like David Moody’s Joe & Me, Joseph D'Lacey's Roadkill, Pat Cadigan’s Chalk and Stephen Graham Jones’s The Elvis Room, Ray Cluley has crafted a mesmerising tale of a man and his mermaid.
Told from the point of view of Josh, the crass, obnoxious front man for a band who gig around the south coast, Water For Drowning is the story of Genna, a girl who believes that her destiny is to become a mermaid, and the ultimately devastating impact that she has on his world. Initially more than happy to play along with her belief in...
This Is Horror editor Michael Wilson certainly has a knack for picking great stories for inclusion in the website’s ongoing series of chapbooks and the latest, Water For Drowning by Ray Cluley, is no exception. Following in the very large footsteps of past entries like David Moody’s Joe & Me, Joseph D'Lacey's Roadkill, Pat Cadigan’s Chalk and Stephen Graham Jones’s The Elvis Room, Ray Cluley has crafted a mesmerising tale of a man and his mermaid.
Told from the point of view of Josh, the crass, obnoxious front man for a band who gig around the south coast, Water For Drowning is the story of Genna, a girl who believes that her destiny is to become a mermaid, and the ultimately devastating impact that she has on his world. Initially more than happy to play along with her belief in...
- 7/13/2014
- Shadowlocked
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