Review: Korpon's Baltimore is a shadowy place
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 06 17, 2013
I have spent very little time in the city of Baltimore. My knowledge of it is secondhand, via friends who've lived there...and inevitably, TV, movies, and books.I don't know that I'd ever want to live there, but it's an interesting place to visit, especially if you can do it vicariously -- and Nik Korpon's works are a fine way to do it. I didn't enjoy this collection quite so much as his "Old Ghosts" -- but it's still quite impressive. It shows the same understated literary flair and ability to make you as a reader think like the protagonists of the stories. You are plunged into their nightmares. I also enjoyed the loosely connected nature of the entries in "Bar Scars" -- some of the same characters and places pop up here and there.