Review: perfectly noir
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 03 7, 2014
I know Anonymous-9 from HARD BITE, her thoroughly compelling revenge novel about a killer paraplegic and his murderous monkey, but I had never read any of her short stories. JUST SO YOU KNOW I'M NOT DEAD is my introduction to Anonymous' shorts and wow, what an introduction!The first two stories are gloriously, perfectly noir and are almost as short as they are powerful. I think 9 was showing off a little bit here, telling two stories that were so blazingly fast, yet hammer-to-the-forehead impactful.The third is her love song to Lovecraft and manages to be creepy and evocative, a departure from the classic noir of the first two but in no way inferior.I am kicking myself for not seeking our 9's short fiction before, but I am glad to have (finally) been introduced.Recommended!