Reviews

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Commenting on ‘Out on a Limb’ (Acquainted with the Night)

“I relished Gary's parade of malformed apparitions.”

— RAMSEY CAMPBELL

“(This line from early in the story) is one of the clearest expressions of the ontological dimension of supernatural fiction I have encountered.”

— JIM ROCKHILL (FROM A REVIEW IN ALL HALLOWS)

Commenting on ‘Estate of the Nation’ (Midnight Street)

“The story eases you into the main scenario, and intensifies with each sentence. The author really pulls you into the story and you can’t help but sympathize with the main character. A real ‘chair edge gripper’.”.

— CHRIS CARTWRIGHT
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Commenting on my chapbook ‘Breaking Hearts’

“Gary’s writing is peppered with metaphors and similes that really drag you into the minds of his characters…Great descriptive work and characters you recognise add a sense of creepy truth to the work.”

— ROB SPALDING
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Commenting on ‘My Burglar’ (Nemonymous 4)

“…a burglar breaks in the house of a beautiful woman only to find himself caught in a spiral of desire for her, is a graphic and quite effective story, written in a very neat style, certainly one of the best tales in Nemo 4.”

— MARIO GUSLANDI
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Commenting on ‘The Forever Doll’ (Fusing Horizons)

“But the best story in this collection by a long mile…Tapping brilliantly into childhood fears and the talismanic qualities of even the simplest images, this story frightened the hell out of me.”

— ADRIAN FRY
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Commenting on ‘The Great Wall’ (Fusing Horizons)

“The metaphor has no one clear meaning – if anything, there are two quite contradictory meanings – and that may well be why it is such a memorable story.”

— STEVE REDWOOD
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Commenting on ‘The Man in the Chimney’ (Fusing Horizons)

Sexually tweaked and psychologically freaked…McMahon’s tight-as-a-glove first person keeps us pressed up against the main character and her craziness

— BARTH ANDERSON
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