{"id":10,"date":"2020-06-09T17:47:26","date_gmt":"2020-06-09T17:47:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thenocturnallibrary.com\/?p=10"},"modified":"2020-06-11T07:04:50","modified_gmt":"2020-06-11T07:04:50","slug":"the-fading-light-anthology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thenocturnallibrary.com\/reviews\/the-fading-light-anthology\/","title":{"rendered":"The Fading Light anthology: 30 Short Stories About Darkness"},"content":{"rendered":"

I just love anthologies – they give me a chance to discover names, who I\u2019ve never heard of before.<\/p>\n

Fading Light: An Anthology of the Monstrous <\/em>was a real godsend for me. This book includes 30 stories, created by not only experienced but also new writers.<\/p>\n

My First Impression About The Book<\/h2>\n

Fading Light<\/em> was released in 2012, however, I\u2019ve bought it not long ago. It’s available on the Internet as a paperback book (I tried to find an audio version, but, apparently, it doesn’t exist).\u00a0<\/p>\n

The compilation has a nice cover with an impressive picture – huge tentacles are stretching to the ground from the heavens. A few names of the authors are listed below the picture – Mark Lawrence, Gene O’Neill, William Meikle, David Dalglish, Gord Rollo, Nick Cato, Adam Millard. There are women among the authors as well – for example, Georgina Kamsika.<\/p>\n

In spite of the fact the anthology is multi-genre (horror, science fiction, and fantasy stories \u0441o-exist under one cover), it\u2019s very easy to read- I think, we should thank the editor, Tim Marquitz, for that.<\/p>\n

A promising theme unifies all the stories – darkness.<\/p>\n

Life In The Darkness: Plots And Characters<\/h2>\n

The light has failed. Man isn’t already the master of the world. People try to protect themselves or their loved ones from mysterious evil day by day. The narrators witnessed a ghastly tragedy at best…<\/p>\n

The majority of characters have nothing in common with superheroes. We meet a waitress, a teacher, a traveling family.<\/p>\n

Some of the stories in the book are creepy (Friends of a Forgotten Man<\/em> by Gord Rollo, Late Night Customer<\/em> by David Dalglish), others are full of hope (Dark Tide<\/em> by Mark Lawrence).<\/p>\n

It’s interesting that the action does not necessarily occur in the Future.\u00a0 Let’s say, Carl Barker’s characters (The Beastly Ninthby<\/em>) are Napoleon’s contemporaries.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

The short stories in Fading Light<\/em> are amazingly moreish – you are going to spare a moment and read a couple of the stories, but the moment turns into three hours. Almost each of them captures your attention from start to finish.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I just love anthologies – they give me a chance to discover names, who I\u2019ve never heard of before. Fading Light: An Anthology of the Monstrous was a real godsend…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\nThe Fading Light anthology: 30 Short Stories About Darkness - All about interesting books<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The light has failed...What will the world be look like after that? The Fading Light anthology gives answers to the question.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow\" \/>\n<meta name=\"googlebot\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<meta name=\"bingbot\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thenocturnallibrary.com\/reviews\/the-fading-light-anthology\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Fading Light anthology: 30 Short Stories About Darkness - All about interesting books\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The light has failed...What will the world be look like after that? The Fading Light anthology gives answers to the question.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.thenocturnallibrary.com\/reviews\/the-fading-light-anthology\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"All about interesting books\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-06-09T17:47:26+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2020-06-11T07:04:50+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.thenocturnallibrary.com\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.thenocturnallibrary.com\/\",\"name\":\"All about interesting books\",\"description\":\"Just another WordPress site\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":\"https:\/\/www.thenocturnallibrary.com\/?s={search_term_string}\",\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.thenocturnallibrary.com\/reviews\/the-fading-light-anthology\/#webpage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.thenocturnallibrary.com\/reviews\/the-fading-light-anthology\/\",\"name\":\"The Fading Light anthology: 30 Short Stories About Darkness - All about interesting books\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.thenocturnallibrary.com\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2020-06-09T17:47:26+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2020-06-11T07:04:50+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.thenocturnallibrary.com\/#\/schema\/person\/df77be289554f9c2d7c3b41a58f6bae0\"},\"description\":\"The light has failed...What will the world be look like after that? The Fading Light anthology gives answers to the question.\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.thenocturnallibrary.com\/reviews\/the-fading-light-anthology\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":[\"Person\"],\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.thenocturnallibrary.com\/#\/schema\/person\/df77be289554f9c2d7c3b41a58f6bae0\",\"name\":\"kitty\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.thenocturnallibrary.com\/#personlogo\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/c0658fae21b10a4bd1079af000b70f49?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"kitty\"}}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thenocturnallibrary.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thenocturnallibrary.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thenocturnallibrary.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thenocturnallibrary.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thenocturnallibrary.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.thenocturnallibrary.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62,"href":"https:\/\/www.thenocturnallibrary.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10\/revisions\/62"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thenocturnallibrary.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thenocturnallibrary.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thenocturnallibrary.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}