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The Other Room [Kindle Edition]

James Everington
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The Other Room is a collection of weird horror fiction, containing twelve stories of the uncanny and the surreal.

A naive student finds that his crumbling bedsit can be as haunted as any Gothic mansion.
A man stumbles across another world which is the mirror image of his own.
A young woman who everyone thinks is beautiful wonders why, given what she sees in the mirror each morning.

Influenced by writers such as Ramsey Campbell, Shirley Jackson, and Robert Aickman these tales, like all good horror stories, are as much about the psychology of the protagonist as the fate that awaits them.

The Other Room contains both new and previously published stories that will challenge your conceptions of horror and literary fiction.

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  • Format: Kindle Edition
  • File Size: 284 KB
  • Sold by: Amazon Media EU S.à r.l.
  • Language English
  • ASIN: B004Z1CUN0
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  • Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #12,720 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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Being a fan of weird fiction, I very much enjoyed this collection of short stories. They are extremely well written, thought provoking and have the perfect balance of creepiness. In my opinion, this work would be at home on a shelf next to Stephen King and Dean Koontz. I hope to see more from this author.
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The difference between British and American horror can sometimes be one that is difficult to delineate but, in this collection, I believe that James Everington's astutely defines it in many ways. Here is subtlety drawn from Campbell and Aickman, a quiet, creeping sense of horror that grows, like a black mildew, amongst the most mundane of settings and situations - an unfinished housing project, a drive home on a lonely road, a student's underwhelming accomodation, a business trip to a dreary workaday hotel. There's a real sense communicated that these supernatural, or rather 'strange', events could happen in the grey everyday world we inhabit - the apocalypse here is subdued and personal rather than an en masse rampage of the living dead. The people here, you can imagine yourself brushing shoulders with them on a bus, jostling with them on a packed train, and they are complex beings, often the root of their unfortunate fate coming from an unseen seed of bitterness, disinterest or thoughtless malice. The Other Room is a great find as a collection and I recommend it wholeheartedly.
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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful
A haunting collection 22 May 2011
Format:Kindle Edition
The best weird fiction (horror, dark fantasy, whatever) stays with you. The stories lurk in your mind, unsettling, disturbing, like a flicker of movement in the corner of your eye. It's tribute to the excellence of the stories collected in The Other Room that a number of them will do just that.

I'm not a fan of stories that focus on shock or gore to try and provoke an emotional response; the thoughtful, literate and disturbing stories in this collection take a subtler approach, creating an atmosphere of unsettling unease in the same way Robert Aickman's stories do, creating a world just like this one, but evoking a dawning realisation that in some way that world is profoundly, terribly, wrong.

The stories are rooted in the mundane horrors of contemporary society, which both makes them more unsettling and introduces a thoughtful element of commentary. Highlights are the title story, where a character who thinks that he has little in life finds out how much he has to lose, the excellent First Time Buyers, a disturbing story which has the feel of Ramsey Campbell's best stories without ever being pastiche, and The Watchers which starts with the notion of the male gaze and takes it somewhere else entirely. The pale and faceless creations of this collection are haunting, and haunted.

Highly recommended.
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