The Throne of Bones eBook Brian McNaughton
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This book won a World Fantasy Award.
"You hold in your hands a book of stories that forced Brian McNaughton to write. Make no mistake I don't exaggerate. There's a reason this book won the World Fantasy Award. The stories inside it are rich, fascinating stuff--creepy and unsettling and phantasmic. Imagine what Tolkien's Lord of the Rings would have been like if Tolkien had tried to tell that story sympathetically from the point of view of the human denizens of Mordor and you'll have the slightest sense of what you're about to wade into--but only just a sense. These stories will make the same demands on you that they made on Brian they will command and compel you, and fill you full of terrible wonder. And when you've finished them you'll find yourself wanting more."--Alan Rodgers
The Throne of Bones eBook Brian McNaughton
Mr McNaughton in this book has managed to suffuse the worlds of his influences with enough of his own vision that it stands apart, alone, atop the hill built of the skeletons of works that came before him. It is not easy to take the characters and situations of his forebears, especially one Old Gent from providence, and give them your own voice. The tales in this book more than accomplish that goal. I read the book once, and couldn't believe that it was that good, so I had to go through it again. The second reading was done in ONE SITTING. Brian McNaughton has an excellent command of both literary idiom and character. His beasties always talk and act like one thinks they should. He has a way with an image that has to be experienced to be believed. I was told by reputable sources that this was a book I should own, as both a reader and a writer of Lovecraftian dark fantasy, and again those sources have been on the mark. This volume has replaced Masterton's PREY and Browning's RESUME WITH MONSTERS as the best recent volume of Cthulhu Mythos-related fiction I have found. To make a long story short, I bought the expensive hardcover edition, and am happy to have spent the money. A review earlier mentioned that Brian has more of these tales. I want them. Seek out and obtain Mr. McNaughton's fiction if you like horror, dark fantasy, or good writing in general. Thanks, Brian.Product details
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The Throne of Bones eBook Brian McNaughton Reviews
The most brilliant book I have ever read. The depth and breadth of Seelura is unique to dark fiction. You fall through the pages, and somehow find yourself wishing to live in this macabre world. Utterly amazing.
Best fiction book I've read since Samuel Delany's "Hogg".
For me, these stories are wondrous and delightful allegories of the foul filth and corruption that lies at the base of all breeder culture and all the soul-crushingly pristine pretensions of civilization that serves that culture.
Since the stories are so negative, the motivation to read them through is weak. All characters are more or less evil and despicable, there's no single, struggling protagonist to identify with and follow. The author tries to set up intriguing mysteries in order to propel the reader which kind of works, but it really just amounts to leaving the reader wondering "what next" in this endless hellish carnival of horrors.
The language is very playful and witty. The author is especially good at inventing fanciful names for people, places and other cultural artifacts. His descriptions are surprising and evocative. Human interactions are very brief. There's no drama or dialogue.
One thing you notice fairly soon in reading these stories are the gory deaths and dismemberments that are routinely handed out to female characters. This thick vein of misogyny was hard to take since I find the mistreatment of women to be generally quite distasteful. The author takes some pains to motivate these grisly deaths but you get the idea that such misogyny is something that's basic to his personal tastes and character.
There are quite a few sexual situations and acts sprinkled throughout these stories but none of them are erotic or satisfying or even titillating. They're just another feature of the disgusting rot and filth of the world.
The two most memorable and standout stories for me were "The Vendren Worm" and "The Retrograde Necromancer". The latter story was just so wildly inventive and humorous. There was even a tender aspect to it that was totally surprising and touching.
I didn't care that much for the illustrations, which were about one per story. They were nice in their own way but they didn't help the story. They were distracting and inaccurate. I much prefer my own mind's-eye imaginings.
I was so impressed with this man's writings that I'm going to try to read everything he's had published.
The narrator is wonderful. However, the stories are, to say the least, grim, disturbing, and disgusting. I'm typically not a squeamish person, but, there's only so much cannibalism, necrophilia, and ghoul sex that I can take. The writing is fantastic, however, and I wanted to enjoy this collection of macabre tales. I gave it multiple changes, but, the subject matter got the better of me.
Mr McNaughton in this book has managed to suffuse the worlds of his influences with enough of his own vision that it stands apart, alone, atop the hill built of the skeletons of works that came before him. It is not easy to take the characters and situations of his forebears, especially one Old Gent from providence, and give them your own voice. The tales in this book more than accomplish that goal. I read the book once, and couldn't believe that it was that good, so I had to go through it again. The second reading was done in ONE SITTING. Brian McNaughton has an excellent command of both literary idiom and character. His beasties always talk and act like one thinks they should. He has a way with an image that has to be experienced to be believed. I was told by reputable sources that this was a book I should own, as both a reader and a writer of Lovecraftian dark fantasy, and again those sources have been on the mark. This volume has replaced Masterton's PREY and Browning's RESUME WITH MONSTERS as the best recent volume of Cthulhu Mythos-related fiction I have found. To make a long story short, I bought the expensive hardcover edition, and am happy to have spent the money. A review earlier mentioned that Brian has more of these tales. I want them. Seek out and obtain Mr. McNaughton's fiction if you like horror, dark fantasy, or good writing in general. Thanks, Brian.
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