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Book review: Rusty Nails and Broken Glass by S.C. Hayden “Well, first you need to collect the menses rags of a seven-hundred-year-old witch. Then, you need to stitch them up inside of a dead goat’s urinary bladder on a full moon’s night. From then on, it gets a bit unpleasant.” – from The Cobbler of Buttercup, Based on a True Story, in Rusty Nails and Broken Glass So, it’s been a while, huh? Blogging remains low on the to do list, but I’ve been drawn out of my cave by the return of bizarro author S.C. Hayden, whose earlier work, American Idol, I glowingly reviewed here, back in May of ’11. Hayden sent me a review copy of his new anthology, Rusty Nails and Broken Glass, a collection of short stories. This was perfect, considering how much of my time lately is spent reading things that could hardly be called “fun” or even “entertaining”, and the short story format really gave me the time to look at it in dribs and drabs, as my schedule allowed. How to describe it? It’s kinda hard. Reviews often use the word macabre to describe works like this. I think it’s an apt description. The stories vary in the extent of how much they depart from reality as we know it, ranging from the “Holy shit, this is messed up!” variation as seen in the book’s opener, She’s My Everything, where a guy goes for a one-night stand and ends up lovingly taking care of the creature pictured on the book’s cover above, to more conventional (as in “still in this universe”) fare, such as in A Bucket of Laughs, a revenge tale that goes horribly, unforseeably wrong. Revenge, or more specifically, the theme of people getting their comeuppance, is a theme that permeated many of the stories in this tome. And who doesn’t like to see that (well, I could think of a few people, but the hell with them)? When combined with some of the more oddball stuff, such as in The Box, a rather creepy tale about a mysterious, horrifying (and one might say, interdimensional?) carnival attraction, it started to occur to me that this book kind of reads like a collection of some of the best of the old E.C. comic books, such as Vault of Horror and Tales From the Crypt. If someone ever decided to make another Creepshow movie, they’d have plenty of top-notch source material to work with, here (and a heck of a lot better than what was in Creepshow 2, for that matter). Where else can you read about dominatrixes, sadistic, medieval, multicolored elves, and perpetually-changing magic poo that looks like John Lennon, Fidel Castro, and Jesus, all in one place? (there’s your one-liner for the book, S.C.) Hayden often gets lumped into the bizarro fiction genre, a rather diverse style with varying qualities that can sometimes be enormously twisted and entertaining, and at other times, rather confusing and a bit too surrealistic (for my tastes, at least). None of the latter here. Strange as the stories may be, the reader doesn’t ever get lost in any surrealism. Hayden’s good like that – you never get the sense you don’t know what’s going on, even though you’re quite often thrown for a very good loop and surprise. So it’s a very accessible book, and the short-story format makes for some great summer reading, too. Get it. Seriously.
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"Pa, prvo morate prikupiti menstruacije krpe od sedam stotina godina starom vješticom. Zatim, morate ih povezati se unutar mrtvog kozjeg mokraćnog mjehura na pun mjesec u noći. Od tada, on dobiva malo neugodan. "- Iz The Cobbler od Buttercup, Temeljeno na istinitoj priči, u Rusty Nails i razbijenog stakla Dakle, to je bilo dok je, ha? Blogging ostaje nisko na popisu za napraviti, ali sam bio izvučen iz moje pećine povratkom bizarro autor SC Hayden, čije ranijeg rada, American Idol, ja zajapureno pregledao ovdje , još u svibnju '11. Hayden mi je poslao pregled kopiju svog novog antologiju, Rusty Nails i razbijenog stakla, zbirku kratkih priča. To je bio savršen, s obzirom na to koliko svog vremena u zadnje vrijeme je proveo čitajući stvari koje se teško može nazvati "zabava" ili čak "zabavna", a kratki oblik priča zapravo mi je dao vremena da se na to gledate u dribs i drabs, kao moj Raspored dopušteno. Kako to opisati? To je kinda teško. Recenzije često koriste riječ sablasnom opisati radove kao što je ovaj. Mislim da je to prikladan opis. Priče se razlikuju u opsegu koliko su polaze od stvarnosti, kao što znamo, u rasponu od "Sranje, to je zabrljati gore!" Varijacije kao što se vidi u knjige otvarač, Ona mi sve, gdje čovjek ide za jednu Night stajati i završava se s ljubavlju brine o stvorenju slici na knjige naslovnici gore, na više konvencionalne (kao u "još uvijek u svemiru") zbivati, kao što je u kantu smije, na osvetu priči koja ide užasno, unforseeably u krivu. Osveta, ili točnije, tema ljudi dobivanje njihove zasluženu kaznu, je tema koja prožimaju mnoge priče u ovom Tome. A tko ne voli vidjeti da (dobro, ja mogu misliti na nekoliko ljudi, ali kvragu s njima)? U kombinaciji s nekim od više otkačen stvari, kao što je u kutiji, prilično jeziv priču o tajanstvenom, vune, (a moglo bi se reći, interdimenzionalnog?) Karnevalska atrakcija, je počeo da se dogodi mi se da ova knjiga čita kao vrsta zbirka nekih od najboljih starih EZ stripova, kao što Vault of Horror i Priče iz kripte. Ako je netko ikada odlučili napraviti još jedan Creepshow film, oni bi imali puno vrhunska izvorni materijal za rad sa, ovdje (i ispitati kritički od puno bolje nego što je bilo u Creepshow 2, za taj tvar). Gdje drugdje možete pročitati o domine, sadističkih, srednjovjekovnih, raznobojnim vilenjaka i neprestano mijenja čarobnu poo koja izgleda poput Johna Lennona, Fidela Castra, i Isusa, sve na jednom mjestu? (Tu je vaš one-liner za knjigu, SC) Hayden često dobiva trpaju u bizarnom fantastike žanra, prilično raznolik stilu sa različitim kvalitetama koje ponekad može biti enormno upletena i zabavni, a ponekad, umjesto zbunjujućih i malo previše nadrealističke (za moj ukus, barem). Niti jedan od potonje ovdje. Čudno kako su priče mogu biti, čitatelj ne zauvijek izgubiti u bilo nadrealizma. Hayden je dobar kao što je to - nikada dobiti osjećaj da ne znam što se događa, iako ste često baca u vrlo dobrom petlje i iznenađenje. Dakle, to je vrlo pristupačna knjiga i kratkih priča formata čini za neke velike ljetne čitanja, previše. Uzmite ga. Ozbiljno. Dostupno od izdavača, ovdje . Ili, Amazon ovdje