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Good Night, Sleep Tight
“PERHAPS TOMORROW I WILL WAKE UP ANOTHER PERSON. PERHAPS TOMORROW I WILL WAKE UP NOT A PERSON AT ALL.”
From the “master of literary horror” (GQ) comes a collection of new stories tracing the limits and consequences of artificial intelligence and “post-human” relationships. Populated by twins stepping into worlds of absence, bears who lick their cubs into creation, and artificial beings haunted by their less-than-human nature, each page sketches a world where our all-too-real feelings of isolation and ecological dread take on an otherworldly tinge.
In Good Night, Sleep Tight, Brian Evenson deftly weaves ethical dilemmas, maternal warmth, and echoes of apocalypse into his most tender, disquieting book yet.
From the “master of literary horror” (GQ) comes a collection of new stories tracing the limits and consequences of artificial intelligence and “post-human” relationships. Populated by twins stepping into worlds of absence, bears who lick their cubs into creation, and artificial beings haunted by their less-than-human nature, each page sketches a world where our all-too-real feelings of isolation and ecological dread take on an otherworldly tinge.
In Good Night, Sleep Tight, Brian Evenson deftly weaves ethical dilemmas, maternal warmth, and echoes of apocalypse into his most tender, disquieting book yet.
256 pages, Paperback
First published September 10, 2024
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Brian Evenson
247 books1,309 followersBrian Evenson is an American academic and writer of both literary fiction and popular fiction, some of the latter being published under B. K. Evenson.
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May 14, 2024
The uncanny and disquietness and yet very human emotion running parallel with vivid visceral masterful evocation with the reader carrying on the dreams and nightmares.
The author a capable conductor of the familiar and unfamiliar, executing with intimate and precision storytelling, juxtapositioning the reader amidst different realms and worlds with a myriad of characters consuming hypnotically under his wings within visionary works, enter The Brian Evenson Zone!
Greyness
Games
Help me
Things be controlled
People being instructed.
Help help
Paralysed character
A freedom wanted
Head and bodies and memories
Memories feed, knowledge gained
Scary bedtime story time
Servants and masters
Mother and father
Brother and sister
Twins
Family and unfamiliar
Frailties and complexities
Existential crisis
Fears and hopes
Need and wants
Strange and uncanny
Vivid and visceral
Insidiously consuming
First person narrations
Terrifying good.
Goodnight, sleep tight!
Review of each short story at my vortex
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The author a capable conductor of the familiar and unfamiliar, executing with intimate and precision storytelling, juxtapositioning the reader amidst different realms and worlds with a myriad of characters consuming hypnotically under his wings within visionary works, enter The Brian Evenson Zone!
Greyness
Games
Help me
Things be controlled
People being instructed.
Help help
Paralysed character
A freedom wanted
Head and bodies and memories
Memories feed, knowledge gained
Scary bedtime story time
Servants and masters
Mother and father
Brother and sister
Twins
Family and unfamiliar
Frailties and complexities
Existential crisis
Fears and hopes
Need and wants
Strange and uncanny
Vivid and visceral
Insidiously consuming
First person narrations
Terrifying good.
Goodnight, sleep tight!
Review of each short story at my vortex
More2read
May 28, 2024
Finishing an Evenson book is like having your soul ripped out, reformed, put back, and being everything is okay. It’s not okay, but we move forward anyway.
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August 12, 2024dnf six stories in. dogshit tbh 😭 r/twosentencehorror core 🤢 "literary" horror is such a meaningless and insulting categorization, especially when the content is THIS BAD!!! And I like some of the other Evenson stuff! but what makes him more "literary" than others? It's not the writing or the structure or the ideas, so.. I'm lost. Once again, all hail Queen Kathe Koja, the ACTUAL literary horror giant
August 26, 2024
This was an amazing collection of short fiction by a writer that I am quickly holding in high esteem. The stories ranged in genre from science fiction to horror to speculative fiction, but each entry contained so much emotional weight. It was amazing how much gravitas the author was able to build into each story in such a short amount of time. I highly recommend anyone who enjoys short fiction on the darker side, to read this collection.
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July 1, 2024oh i am going to be INSUFFERABLE when this comes out
June 11, 2024
How the horrific scenarios still flow so strong and feel so fresh after this many collections kind of blows my mind. The vicious mountain spring flooded the mental mine, my cognitive ore turned sunken treasure, and the kicker is: he brought robots along for the deluge. Adding sci-fi into the stream gives it some Kim-Bo-Young-slash-George-Saunders peanut butter cup (savory/sweet) magic. After all these years, I keep thinking the tap will run dry, but he keeps finding ways to overwhelm the levee between my childhood wonderment and adult fears.
August 18, 2024
This was strange and uncanny, but I couldn’t put it down!
I really enjoyed the horror/sci-fi mix as it produced some really unique tropes and characters. Although I loved these stories, I could not read this at night because they were very unsettling to say the least. I’m looking forward to picking up more from Brian Evenson because I really enjoyed the writing style of these stories.
I wonder how long I’ll keep thinking about these stories for.
I really enjoyed the horror/sci-fi mix as it produced some really unique tropes and characters. Although I loved these stories, I could not read this at night because they were very unsettling to say the least. I’m looking forward to picking up more from Brian Evenson because I really enjoyed the writing style of these stories.
I wonder how long I’ll keep thinking about these stories for.
July 31, 2024
QOTD: Ya miss me? What have you been reading whilst I've been away?
I'm recommencing with an absolute unit of a short story collection, from an absolute unit of a horror author! You can read my full rundown through the link in my bio, or in my highlights.
"“Good Night, Sleep Tight,” by Brian Evenson is a terrifying and mesmerising collection in which the very fabric of every story pulses with dread, hums with disquietude and practically screams “something is very wrong.” Each sentence is written masterfully and meticulously, building a relentless sense of unease until it culminates in an inevitable implosion. “Good Night,, Sleep Tight,” (GNST for reference) takes no prisoners, and has further cemented Evenson as a horror titan, having left me spellbound but profoundly unsettled, yet again. Thank you Coffee House Press for the ARC, this one emerges from the shadows September 10th 2024. "
I'm recommencing with an absolute unit of a short story collection, from an absolute unit of a horror author! You can read my full rundown through the link in my bio, or in my highlights.
"“Good Night, Sleep Tight,” by Brian Evenson is a terrifying and mesmerising collection in which the very fabric of every story pulses with dread, hums with disquietude and practically screams “something is very wrong.” Each sentence is written masterfully and meticulously, building a relentless sense of unease until it culminates in an inevitable implosion. “Good Night,, Sleep Tight,” (GNST for reference) takes no prisoners, and has further cemented Evenson as a horror titan, having left me spellbound but profoundly unsettled, yet again. Thank you Coffee House Press for the ARC, this one emerges from the shadows September 10th 2024. "
September 14, 2024
Brian Evenson has become an instant buy author for me ever since I first read A Collapse of Horses years ago. This was a great collection filled with unsettling stories where things just aren't quite right or what they seem. Sometimes even having you question what it means to be human and whether or not our reality is the true reality.
Sadly, the last few stories were a bit lack-luster for me but still a great read over all.
Sadly, the last few stories were a bit lack-luster for me but still a great read over all.
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