Review: Beautifully written, evocative stories
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 04 10, 2012
Book Info: Genre: Horror, suspense Reading Level: AdultDisclosure: I received a free copy of this eBook from the LibraryThing Members Giveaway in exchange for an honest review.Synopsis: Ice Age is a collection of eight short stories of the strange and the chilling by award-winning author Iain Rowan.Stories of the dead and the living, and cities at war where it is hard to tell one from the other. Lonely roads and forest paths and wrong turnings. Very wrong turnings. The fiery martyrdom of The New Way, distant voices that call from the sea, and the ice creeping in, ever in.Stories in this collection have been reprinted in year's best collections and featured in anthologies nominated for Stoker and Shirley Jackson awards.Ice Age features the stories Lilies, The Call, Through The Window, Driving In Circles, Sighted, The Circular Path, Here Comes The New Way and Ice Age.My Thoughts: The first story in this book is Lilies, which I have reviewed separately.Like Lilies, I found the other stories in this book to be evocative, beautifully written, spare but complete: perfect exemplars of the short story. It's very difficult to review a short-story anthology without providing spoilers, so I'll leave it at this. If you like wonderfully written, chilling short stories, this book is one you don't want to miss.