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Terror of Earth by Tom LaFarge

george_salis's review

The first story was striking in its syntax and overall tenor, compact, like Cormac McCarthy writing an Aesopian fable. A few of the other stories have some of that feel to them as well, while others are more traditional. The title story sees La Farge at his most uninhibited. Having recently read Mulligan Stew, the piece made a nice complement to that extended experience. I almost wish the title story was longer, or perhaps the book as a whole doubled in length. Overall, anyone interested in literary reinterpretations of fables, French ones in this case, would do well to track down a copy and add it to their library, which should also contain Wendy Walker and Angela Carter, to name a couple.