Jonathan Thomas, Hippocampus (www.hippocampuspress.com), $20 (264p) ISBN 978-0-9844802-0-3
Quirky horrors steeped in surreality distinguish Thomas's uneven second collection (after Midnight Call and Other Stories). In the title tale, a Brown alumnus's return to Providence, R.I., reacquaints him with a vision he once had of native son H.P.
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Jonathan Thomas. Hippocampus (hippocampuspress.com), $20 trade paper (262p) ISBN 978-1-61498-134-3
Thomas (The Color over Occam) demonstrates a gift for subtle horror in his fourth story collection (after 2013's 13 Conjurations). The 13 tales feature full-blooded characters in complex interpersonal relationships, as in "Down the Hatch," which...
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Jonathan Thomas. Hippocampus, $20 trade paper (266p) ISBN 978-1-61498-199-2
Unevenness mars Thomas’s fifth collection of short stories and poems (after 2015’s Dreams of Ys and Other Invisible Worlds). Some of the verse selections, such as “Death and a Locket,” in which Death offers to take the life of a man’s loved one and...
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Jonathan Thomas. Hippocampus, $20 trade paper (254p) ISBN 978-1-61498-341-5
The 14 tales in Thomas’s fine sixth collection of weird fiction (after 2017’s Midnight Call and Other Stories), eight of them original to this volume, demonstrate that well-crafted prose goes a long way toward enabling the suspension of disbelief....
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Jonathan Thomas, Author, S. T. Joshi, Foreword by . Hippocampus $15 (264p) ISBN 978-0-9793806-9-3
Readers with a taste for intelligent horror will welcome this collection from the versatile Thomas (Stories from the Big Black House
). The longest among the 25 entries, “The Weird Old Hole,” is a fine traditional horror tale. After the...
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Jonathan Thomas. Hippocampus (www.hippocampuspress.com), $20 trade paper (278p) ISBN 978-1614980674
The 13 selections in Thomas's third story collection (after 2010's Tempting Providence) are stronger in conception than in execution. The opener, "Mobymart After Midnight," epitomizes the problem. Thomas combines a Walmart-like mega-chain and...
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