![]() ![]() There are some lighthearted moments sprinkled in the stories here and there, but they are all dark. You read the story and you feel more and more uncomfortable as you try to figure out what is happening. Skipping even a single word would make you miss out on too much of the story, so you don’t. And his minimalistic writing style makes the reader hang on every single word because there is meaning and purpose behind each of them. Song for the Unraveling of the World picks up right where Evenson left off in his last collection. When I found out he had a new collection coming out this year, I pre-ordered it and couldn’t wait to dive into it. They were good, but with the exception of Last Days, nothing was as good to me as his short stories. ![]() I was hooked and grabbed a few more of his novels. About a year later I saw Last Days at a bookstore and I remembered how much I liked that first collection so I got it and read it in about two days. ![]() I really enjoyed the stories in the collection but never moved on to read any of his other work. A few years ago a picked up the short story collection A Collapse of Horses by Brian Evenson because I’d heard a lot of good things about Evenson and I’d never read anything by him before. ![]()
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