A review by ryzmat
Song for the Unraveling of the World: Stories by Brian Evenson

5.0

this was my first foray into reading evenson but i really enjoyed the majority of these stories. regardless of the genre, he writes masterfully as the 'unraveling' of these characters. the way he slowly reveals details, little by little, really works to keep up the suspense and general 'what the fuckery' in these short stories, most (or all?) of which are 10 pages or less - quite impressive what he's able to do with so little words. i really am looking forward to checking out more of his fiction which lucky for me there is a lot of!

standouts:
- sisters: amorphous creatures observe human traditions on halloween
- room tone: filmmaker obsesses over recording the perfect sound of silence for his film
- wanderlust + the glistening world: go together hand in hand, disorienting tales of being followed