Books by David Nickle and Complete Book Reviews
David Nickle, Author . ChiZine $18.95 (292p) ISBN 978-0-9812978-3-5
Bleak, stark and creepy, Stoker-winner Nickle's first collection will delight the literary horror reader. A jarring cover illustration by Erik Mohr prepares the reader for 13 terrifying tales of rural settings, complex and reticent characters...
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David Nickle. ChiZine (Diamond, dist.), $15.95 trade paper (330p) ISBN 978-1-926851-11-2
Nickle's bleak debut novel mixes utopian vision, rustic Americana, and pure creepiness. It's 1911 and the future is bright in remote Eliada, Idaho, with its thriving timber business and a free hospital funded by forward-thinking philanthropist...
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David Nickle. ChiZine (Diamond, dist.), $16.95 trade paper (500p) ISBN 978-1-926851-59-4
This fantasy novel about cold war psychic spies and their controllers is written in the tradition of the great Russian novels: it’s very long, it’s got an enormously unwieldy cast, and a casual reader will often have no idea what’s going on. The “bas
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David Nickle. ChiZine Publications (Diamond, U.S. dist.; HarperCollins Canada, Canadian dist.), $16.99 trade paper (224p) ISBN 978-1-77148-304-9
While his past work has embraced the genre, it's not entirely accurate to label award-winning author David Nickle's newest collection as "horror." Yes, tropes are at play that support the classification: throughout the tales frolic possessed babies,
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David Nickle. ChiZine (Diamond, U.S. dist.; PGC/Raincoast, Canadian dist.), $16.95 trade paper (364p) ISBN 978-1-77148-143-4
Stoker-winning Toronto author Nickle (Rasputin's Bastards) sets up what looks to be a fairly straightforward story of a woman and the malicious spirit that's been tormenting her since childhood. Ann LeSage calls the entity "the Insect," and its...
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Claude Lalumi%C3%A8re and David Nickle. Exile Editions (IPG, North American dist.), $19.95 trade paper (291p) ISBN 978-1-55096-460-8
Editors Lalumière and Nickle (veteran and new anthologists, respectively) have assembled an anthology that is largely successful in its goals. The quality of prose is almost universally high, but the quality of storytelling is highly uneven. It's...
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David Nickle. ChiZine (Consortium, U.S. dist.; Fitzhenry and Whitesite, Canadian dist.), $17.99 trade paper (400p) ISBN 978-1-77148-417-6
In a frightening sequel with prescient undertones, Nickle triumphantly returns to the world of Eutopia: A Novel of Terrible Optimism for another dive into the horrific. Writing in a heightened style that evokes the classic gothic horrors of Stoker,...
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