A review by ericgaryanderson
Bleed into Me: A Book of Stories by Stephen Graham Jones

5.0

In these stories, SGJ absolutely convinces me that I'm reading not just an episode in a life, not just a situation that's some part of a larger life that balloons off the page in ways we can't see or really know, but the contours of the life itself. This IS the character's life; this IS what it's like to be him or her. The way he does this is, I think, unerring and often unsettling, especially when characters slowly awaken into claustrophobia and still think that there's a way out. I was still thinking that too. . . . SGJ just nails it when it comes to knowing which moments, which details, which gestures and breaths and things said and unsaid give us these lives.