A Time Out New York Best Book of 2012
“Evenson’s thrillingly unnerving books have won awards for mystery, horror, and literary fiction; this is work that’s scary on a deep level.”
—Reader’s Digest
“The fact that Evenson can move from parody to paranoia and humor to horror in the span of three paragraphs is a testament to his ability as a storyteller.”
—The Brooklyn Rail
“Ranging from feudal to post-apocalyptic, [Windeye] contains some of the best uncanny and horror writing to come out of New England since Stephen King published The Stand in 1978.”
—ForeWord
“Imagine Beckett’s Murphy or Molloy lost, walking around in a Poe tale, then read these stories to find out why Jonathan Lethem calls Evenson ‘one of the treasures of American story writing.’”
—Shelf Awareness
“Characterized by building suspense and dread, these tales often have a folkloric feel far removed from the commonplace.”
—Booklist
“[Windeye is] fiction that, for all its seeming insubstantiality, is weighty, solid, and provocative.”
—Locus Magazine
“Laughter can be an effective tool of the horror writer, and Evenson is its finest practitioner.”
—Time Out Chicago
“Brian Evenson is one of the treasures of American story writing, a true successor both to the generation of Coover, Barthelme, Hawkes and Co., but also to Edgar Allan Poe.”
—Jonathan Lethem
“No one—and I mean no one—is better at excavating the strangeness of our everyday lives.”
—Andrew Ervin
