{"id":19850,"date":"2025-06-11T07:00:43","date_gmt":"2025-06-11T11:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cemeterydance.com\/extras\/?p=19850"},"modified":"2025-05-20T22:31:38","modified_gmt":"2025-05-21T02:31:38","slug":"review-creatures-liminal-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cemeterydance.com\/extras\/review-creatures-liminal-space\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: Creatures of Liminal Space by Daniel Braum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"19852\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.cemeterydance.com\/extras\/review-creatures-liminal-space\/creatures-liminal-space\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cemeterydance.com\/extras\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/creatures-liminal-space.webp?fit=700%2C1050&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"700,1050\" 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=\"creatures-liminal-space\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cemeterydance.com\/extras\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/creatures-liminal-space.webp?fit=683%2C1024&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-19852\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cemeterydance.com\/extras\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/creatures-liminal-space.webp?resize=233%2C350&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"233\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cemeterydance.com\/extras\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/creatures-liminal-space.webp?resize=233%2C350&amp;ssl=1 233w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cemeterydance.com\/extras\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/creatures-liminal-space.webp?resize=683%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 683w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cemeterydance.com\/extras\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/creatures-liminal-space.webp?w=700&amp;ssl=1 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 233px) 85vw, 233px\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jackanapespress.com\/product\/creatures-of-liminal-space\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><i>Creatures of Liminal Space <\/i>by Daniel Braum<\/a><br \/>\nJackanapes Press (June, 2025)<br \/>\nReviewed by Joshua Gage<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Like a vinyl record from days gone by, author Daniel Braum spins a unique blend of speculative fiction that effortlessly blends fantasy, science fiction and horror and mysticism in every verse. Weaving a tapestry of quantum intelligence, Braum\u2019s multi-dimensional characters are drawn into dark worlds of spiritualism where concepts of advanced science collide with magic realism to investigate the unexplainable at the edges of civilization. Defying conventional categorization, his work thrives in the grey area between many genres. Braum\u2019s newest collection is <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Creatures of Liminal Space<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u00a0<\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Creatures of Liminal Space<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is a collection of short stories, mainly flash fiction, focused on interstitial creatures. Most of these tales are short, no more than a page or two, but that doesn\u2019t stop them from being ethereal and effective. Braum is able to craft tight stories that are both haunting and deliberately abstract, almost gothic in their mystery. Many of these tales revolve around travelers and explorers in distant, remote locations; Braum is able to tap into the cultural shifts faced by these narrators and expound them into otherworldly strangeness. Whether it\u2019s the Costa Rican jungles of \u201cBoon of the Monkey God\u201d or the markets of India in \u201cIn Search of Elephant Corners,\u201d Braum\u2019s protagonists are thrust into the unfamiliar, which Braum twists into something more strange and haunting with his writing.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Braum\u2019s writing will be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cemeterydance.com\/extras\/?s=daniel+braum\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">familiar with readers of <\/a><\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cemetery Dance<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, so this book will come as no surprise to anyone. His tight lyricism combined with deliberately tenuous plots that waft between this reality and another is as strong as ever, and this collection is a really striking example of his shadowy, cryptid fiction. This book is strongly recommended for any fans of gothic or monster horror, but any readers and fans of horror fiction will want to sample these stories. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Creatures of Liminal Space by Daniel Braum Jackanapes Press (June, 2025) Reviewed by Joshua Gage Like a vinyl record from days gone by, author Daniel Braum spins a unique blend of speculative fiction that effortlessly blends fantasy, science fiction and horror and mysticism in every verse. 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