Anthony Shriek
by Jessica Salmonson
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"Anthony Shriek is much more than a good horror novel. It's said that a good novel should make you laugh, make you cry or make you think, a great novel will do all three. But Anthony Shriek is also a poignant tale of pain, loneliness and the madness that may come with isolation from one's fellows. It's said that we make our own monsters and our own hells and this is certainly true of the tormented artist in this book... Ms Salmonson writes: "In writing of Anthony's dark journey I had two show more subsidiary goals I hoped would lend the tale greater depth than the average horror novel. One was mystic, to recast a gnostic tale of the error-ridden Creator, alongside the attempted rescue of the Creator by the fallen Sophia. The other was to make Seattle and the last days of the punk era seem comparable to the dark, damp decadence of Gustav Meyrink's Prague in Der Golem. I additionally hoped for, and believe I achieved, something that is as tragic as it is horrific, so that readers might wish these characters better fates, and weep for them""-- http://www.centipedepress.com/horror/anthonyshriek.html (as viewed on May 30, 2017.) show lessTags
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I don't usually like novels this politically correct, but I have rarely read anything as sad and moving as the plight and fate of Anthony Shriek.
Generally overrated as a “masterpiece” of psychological horror. Salmonson’s prose can be wonderful and then cringingly terrible by turns. The first 3/4 of the book seems almost plotless with little bits and pieces of incoherent stuff about the characters amidst too much existential peering into the abyss (pun intended). Once Salmonson decides what she wants to do with all these ideas things improve immensely but not enough to salvage the first parts of the book.
In the end the whole thing comes off as a poor man’s [a:Clive Barker|10366|Clive Barker|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1430330407p2/10366.jpg].
In the end the whole thing comes off as a poor man’s [a:Clive Barker|10366|Clive Barker|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1430330407p2/10366.jpg].
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- Anthony Shriek; Emily Maupin; Allen; Wesley Katts; Candice; Michael Running Belly (show all 9); Jack Medicine Wolf; Janet Watersparrow; Maggy Mole Eyes
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