Tag: dark fiction

42 Word Review: The Cemetery Man (and Other Darkside Tales) by Bill Pronzini

The Cemetery Man (and Other Darkside Tales)

by Bill Pronzini (Perfect Crime Books, 2014)

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Bill Pronzini’s great talent for capturing character and setting, so effective in his mystery novels, is frittered away in this collection of dark short fiction spanning 1976-2013, yielding mostly unsatisfying vignettes and denouements that rest on skewed reinterpretations of the stories’ titles.