{"id":21256,"date":"2026-09-17T11:23:46","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T15:23:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cemeterydance.com\/extras\/?p=21256"},"modified":"2026-09-16T11:23:53","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T15:23:53","slug":"infernal-tramps-by-alex-grass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cemeterydance.com\/extras\/infernal-tramps-by-alex-grass\/","title":{"rendered":"Infernal Tramps by Alex Grass"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/p\/books\/infernal-tramps-tales-of-weird-terror-alex-grass\/6e23ebf67f35d755?ean=9781735888569&amp;bkshp-astro=t\"><strong><i>Infernal Tramps<\/i> by Alex Grass<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Dickinson Publishing Group (July<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"21257\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.cemeterydance.com\/extras\/infernal-tramps-by-alex-grass\/infernal-tramps\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cemeterydance.com\/extras\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Infernal-Tramps.jpg?fit=600%2C927&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"600,927\" 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;1&quot;,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Infernal Tramps\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cemeterydance.com\/extras\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Infernal-Tramps.jpg?fit=600%2C927&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-21257\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cemeterydance.com\/extras\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Infernal-Tramps.jpg?resize=227%2C350&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"227\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cemeterydance.com\/extras\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Infernal-Tramps.jpg?resize=227%2C350&amp;ssl=1 227w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cemeterydance.com\/extras\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Infernal-Tramps.jpg?w=600&amp;ssl=1 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 227px) 85vw, 227px\" \/> 2026)<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Reviewed by <a href=\"https:\/\/danicadavidson.com\/\">Danica Davidson<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Infernal Tramps<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is a fascinating, morbid, and hallucinatory collection of seventeen short stories. Reading them is a bit like reading something that combines nightmares, surrealist paintings, and an extra shot of weirdness, all into a cocktail of well-written, genre-defying tales of horror.\u00a0<\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The titular story, \u201cInfernal Tramps,\u201d follows a \u201ctramp\u201d who adopts a child thrown from a train, and then that child grows up, we\u2019ll say, very unusually.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In \u201cEguisto Zanosi\u2019s Fast,\u201d Eguisto\u2019s wife and mother-in-law take a creative path to teaching him a lesson about his sins.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In \u201cA Woman of Distinction,\u201d a 500-year-old woman takes it into her own bloody hands to teach a man some manners. This story was short and to the point, but something about it was so powerful that I think it might be my favorite in the collection.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cPujkamaunka Splash,\u201d a story about a game from the 90s, might sound as if it\u2019s about something nostalgic and innocent. Still, this story was especially visceral \u2014 and sometimes felt very real \u2014 and this is the story that creeped me out the most.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The stories themselves are hard to describe without going into too much detail. And then it\u2019s hard to go into detail, because Grass has such a unique way of telling stories. The writing is unique, takes interesting angles, and is written with an intelligent flair and vocabulary. Descriptions are vivid, detailed, and sometimes out of this world. Some of the stories are on the shorter end, flash fiction pieces that get a lot of emotion across with very little wording. While some of them are pretty straightforward, much more often they\u2019re open to interpretation. The stories never outright terrify, but they do a good job of getting under your skin, especially the more you read.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At the same time, they aren\u2019t just nightmares and creepiness. These stories also have dark humor and satire. And each story opens with a black-and-white picture that fits the mood, either artwork by the author or a shadowy image of a sculpture, a photograph, or a netsuke. While a few stories have been previously published, most are new to this collection.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">More than one story deals with murder, and there\u2019s a fair share of gore, though it never feels particularly gory. Even with some themes revisited, each story feels very much its own, shining in its own weird way. This is a solid horror collection for someone who wants something a little different to disquiet their nights.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Grass is also the author of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Black River Lantern, Dreck<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A Boy\u2019s Hammer.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Infernal Tramps by Alex Grass Dickinson Publishing Group (July 2026) Reviewed by Danica Davidson Infernal Tramps is a fascinating, morbid, and hallucinatory collection of seventeen short stories. Reading them is a bit like reading something that combines nightmares, surrealist paintings, and an extra shot of weirdness, all into a cocktail of well-written, genre-defying tales of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cemeterydance.com\/extras\/infernal-tramps-by-alex-grass\/\" class=\"more-link button bg-gold white\">Continue Reading!<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Infernal Tramps by Alex Grass&#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_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[80],"tags":[3710,767],"class_list":["post-21256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-alex-grass","tag-danica-davidson"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.5 - 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