The stories in Tamel Wino’s debut collection** start in an sinister emotional twilight and peak at what Tennessee Williams’s fans may see as a “lurid nocturnal brilliance”.
All bar one of the pieces in Ékleipsis is written in the first person; most include a scene in a building’s basement and each is reminiscent of an old-fashioned ‘true crime’ melodrama. You couldn’t make them up? Hang on! The new Canadian kid on block just has!
It is always refreshing to discover a new natural-born writer and while Wino makes some mistakes, the stories are a damned good, extremely frightening read. But not at bedtime!
** Ékleipsis is available from Amazon in Paperback ($7.99) or on Kindle (FoC).
© Natalie Wood (30 January 2021)
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