{"id":14037,"date":"2020-02-10T07:00:11","date_gmt":"2020-02-10T12:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cemeterydance.com\/extras\/?p=14037"},"modified":"2020-02-09T21:09:47","modified_gmt":"2020-02-10T02:09:47","slug":"review-the-night-doctor-and-other-tales-steve-rasnic-tem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cemeterydance.com\/extras\/review-the-night-doctor-and-other-tales-steve-rasnic-tem\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: The Night Doctor and Other Tales by Steve Rasnic Tem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"14034\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.cemeterydance.com\/extras\/review-half-freaks-nicole-cushing\/nightdoctor\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cemeterydance.com\/extras\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/nightdoctor.jpg?fit=241%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"241,300\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"nightdoctor\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cemeterydance.com\/extras\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/nightdoctor.jpg?fit=241%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-14034\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cemeterydance.com\/extras\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/nightdoctor.jpg?resize=241%2C300\" alt=\"\" width=\"241\" height=\"300\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.centipedepress.com\/horror\/nightdoctor.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong><em>The Night Doctor and Other Tales <\/em>by Steve Rasnic Tem<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Centipede Press (December 2019)<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>336 pages; $20 unsigned limited edition (700 copies) hardcover<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Reviewed by\u00a0Kevin Lucia<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I first encountered Steve Rasnic Tem&#8217;s work in the inaugural edition of the <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Greystone Bay <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">series. \u201cIn a Guest House\u201d was a startlingly quiet piece, humming with the same undercurrent of unease that can be found in the best <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Twilight Zone<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> episodes. After that, I continued to encounter Tem&#8217;s work here and there, especially as I collected classic horror anthologies from the eighties and nineties. I loved the quiet restraint I found in his work, so when I happened upon a review copy for <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Night Doctor and Other Tales<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, his most recent short fiction collection, I dived right in.<\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">These new tales proved every bit as powerful as anything else I&#8217;ve read by Tem. They are quiet and creeping, instilling a dread which slithers under your skin and flits like half-seen shadows from the corner of your eyes. They are also firmly rooted in the human experience, which, at the end of the day, is my favorite kind of weird tale.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In this collection, you&#8217;ll find stories ruminating on life change, old age, dementia, sickness, dying, caring for ailing spouses and the toll that takes. As much fun as fast and furious pulp tales are, these are highly literate stories which find the weirdness we take for granted in every day life. But, no worries &#8212; I&#8217;d also say this collection delves into the supernatural. These are definitely weird stories that will please horror fans, and those looking for strange, painfully insightful commentary on the human experience. Highly recommended.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Night Doctor and Other Tales by Steve Rasnic Tem Centipede Press (December 2019) 336 pages; $20 unsigned limited edition (700 copies) hardcover Reviewed by\u00a0Kevin Lucia I first encountered Steve Rasnic Tem&#8217;s work in the inaugural edition of the Greystone Bay series. \u201cIn a Guest House\u201d was a startlingly quiet piece, humming with the same &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cemeterydance.com\/extras\/review-the-night-doctor-and-other-tales-steve-rasnic-tem\/\" class=\"more-link button bg-gold white\">Continue Reading!<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Review: The Night Doctor and Other Tales by Steve Rasnic Tem&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[80],"tags":[1969,783,79,545,1968],"class_list":["post-14037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-centipede-press","tag-kevin-lucia","tag-reviews","tag-steve-rasnic-tem","tag-the-night-doctor-and-other-tales"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - 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