Okay damn Fracassi I was not familiar with your game. I like reading story collections of authors before jumping into novels because it operates as a sampler platter. “Pale Sky” was Fracassi’s charcuterie board of darkly bizarre, often cosmic, and deeply horrifying short fiction that somehow ended with a warm, gentle caress of a new friend’s hand on your cheek: it feels good to have it there, but they don’t know you like that and there’s a wrongness after it. The whiplash was astonishing. Only eight stories and I can’t pick a favorite, that’s the sign of success. Okay fine, y’all know I’m a bug boy, you can figure it out :D

Fracassi’s an equal opportunist: everyone (I mean everyone) gets hurt.

4.5/5 I’ve shied away from his catalog for too long, I’ll be grabbing whatever I can get my hands on soon enough.