R. Ostermeier

[weirdmonger]

Go for it!

[Jojo Lapin X]

Feb 14, 2022 16:56:19 GMT weirdmonger said:

Go for it!

I need more information.

[weirdmonger]

Feb 14, 2022 19:29:47 GMT Jojo Lapin X said:

Feb 14, 2022 16:56:19 GMT weirdmonger said:

Go for it!

I need more information.

I know nothing of R. OSTERMEIER but I love his or her disturbing stories in The Trick of the Shadow (Broodcomb Press).

[helrunar]

Your new photo is great, Weirdmonger.

Have never heard of Ostermeier or the press that put the book out--probably not available over here.

cheers, Hel.

[helrunar]

Short review here; Machen and Aickman are cited as influences. I wonder on just which "peninsula" the enigmatic being Ostermeier lives upon.

wyrdbritain.blogspot.com/2021/03/a-trick-of-shadow.html

Lots of good stuff on this blog, incidentally; I'm probably fond of it because the author is as obsessed with cult 1970s British TV programs and films as I am.

H.

[helrunar]

The blurb really is extraordinarily diffident, and that naturally arouses one's admiration.

broodcomb.co.uk/

H.

[Shrink Proof]

Feb 15, 2022 2:30:08 GMT helrunar said:

The blurb really is extraordinarily diffident, and that naturally arouses one's admiration.

broodcomb.co.uk/

H.

"A Trick of the Shadow" and "Upmorchard" have been languishing in the lower reaches of the tottering tower that is my "To Be Read" collection for ages. This thread has encouraged me to move them up several places, at considerable personal risk I might add - such a move is like playing Jenga with Parkinson's Disease. They're now wedged between "A Walk in a Darker Wood" (folk horror anthology) and "The Bald Trilogy" by the late, great Ken Campbell. Which is progress. Honestly, it really is.

[weirdmonger]

Just attempted to finish an impossible review of an impossibly disturbing collection of fiction…
dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2022/02/04/a-trick-of-the-shadow-by-r-ostermeier/

[helrunar]

Malcolm, I'm imagining all the gems, esoterica and pulpy goodness tucked away in your tottering tower and maybe I'm drooling a little. Given your account of your mountain-scaling feats in the wilds of Scotland, I'm not surprised you were able to manage such a prodigious shifting of near-toppling tomes with such quiet Northern aplomb.

My latest discovery in the realm of authors is one Louis Bayard. I just finished The Pale Blue Eye which involves a young, extravagantly fabulist Edgar Allan Poe during his brief tenure at West Point (1830) in the investigation of a very strange series of murders, and it was so good. I shudder to report that the book is being filmed for "Netflix" and I doubt whether the results will bear much resemblance to Bayard's remarkably crafted book. I just started The School of Night which has to do with ruthless American collectors of Elizabethan-era literary relics, counterpointing a yarn set circa 2009 with flashbacks to some sort of metaphysical circle during the reign of E I. Bayard observes and reports on all of it with a very sharp quill dipped in elegantly composed vitriol. The sort I enjoy at my advanced stage of life.

H.

[weirdmonger]

My review of SKIN AND GRIEF by R. Ostermeier, moving along a pipe as a conduit into death.

Skin and Grief R. Ostermeier | The Des Lewis Gestalt Real-Time Reviews (from 2008)