charlesdee
10/5/2014
Etchison's stories are better the more abstract he lets them be. Tales of hapless protagonists slipping into their grim, unavoidable fates easily come off as storylines for 1960's episodic TV – The Twilight Zone, Thriller, Alfred Hitchcock Presents. Etchison has a few of those, but at his best he uses his precise Los Angeles geography to place the reader in the uncomfortable position of watching something horrible and unhinged take place, something as baffling to the reader as it is to Etchison's characters.
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