articulatemadness's review
5.0
Fallout From Our Asphalt Hell leaves the kind of debris all over the short story market it’s been missing for decades. It is a beautifully masterminded short story anthology by Gabriel Hart you thought would never exist again without Rod Serling’s input.
This impressive celebration of collected multi-genre fiction takes the reader into a frenzy of hard knock life cautionary tales that will delight. The lives in Fallout From Our Asphalt Hell are not for the weak of heart; these are terrible people doing terrible things for what they think are the right reasons which so happen to go wrong. And there’s not one type of people fitting one mold. You have rich and poor people, working laborers and corporate assholes, musicians and space enthusiasts, abused lovers and frustrated business partners.
As the title implies, the various protagonist of the book are definitely not living their best lives ever. A plethora of themes are explored and instigated, leaving a well rounded compilation where there’s something for everyone regardless of taste. A classic throwback homage to the sinful origins of corporate America starts the reader on a nonstop cautionary tale trip that is worthy of even the Cryptkeeper.
Hart’s genius is featuring erotic tales with twists worthy of season three of The Twilight Zone alongside ingenuously insecure tales of illegal inclination from illicit ill-gotten gains. Participation medals aren’t what we think they are no more than black pit bulls are the spiritual little brother to the American werewolf that has never seen London. In this magnificent collection you’re going to love knowing that lady luck’s on the rocks and ice is melting fast. You won’t get enough of glam bands learning the definition of humble the hard way.
The beauty of it is that we’re perfectly okay with that.
The non-stop roller coaster ride Hart takes us on will never feel stale, boring or recycled; though it will definitely take you back to the golden era of The Twilight Zone, Tales Of The Unexpected, Tales From The Crypt, The Outer Limits, and Night Gallery you will never read the same story twice in this collection. And we’re okay with that too since that was some of the best short story anthology storytelling that has ever been amassed into modern culture. Gabriel Hart has earned his place amongst the titans of short story storytelling in crime, horror, science fiction, and speculative fiction. This collection should be his coming out party as one of the greatest short story writers of his generation.
This impressive celebration of collected multi-genre fiction takes the reader into a frenzy of hard knock life cautionary tales that will delight. The lives in Fallout From Our Asphalt Hell are not for the weak of heart; these are terrible people doing terrible things for what they think are the right reasons which so happen to go wrong. And there’s not one type of people fitting one mold. You have rich and poor people, working laborers and corporate assholes, musicians and space enthusiasts, abused lovers and frustrated business partners.
As the title implies, the various protagonist of the book are definitely not living their best lives ever. A plethora of themes are explored and instigated, leaving a well rounded compilation where there’s something for everyone regardless of taste. A classic throwback homage to the sinful origins of corporate America starts the reader on a nonstop cautionary tale trip that is worthy of even the Cryptkeeper.
Hart’s genius is featuring erotic tales with twists worthy of season three of The Twilight Zone alongside ingenuously insecure tales of illegal inclination from illicit ill-gotten gains. Participation medals aren’t what we think they are no more than black pit bulls are the spiritual little brother to the American werewolf that has never seen London. In this magnificent collection you’re going to love knowing that lady luck’s on the rocks and ice is melting fast. You won’t get enough of glam bands learning the definition of humble the hard way.
The beauty of it is that we’re perfectly okay with that.
The non-stop roller coaster ride Hart takes us on will never feel stale, boring or recycled; though it will definitely take you back to the golden era of The Twilight Zone, Tales Of The Unexpected, Tales From The Crypt, The Outer Limits, and Night Gallery you will never read the same story twice in this collection. And we’re okay with that too since that was some of the best short story anthology storytelling that has ever been amassed into modern culture. Gabriel Hart has earned his place amongst the titans of short story storytelling in crime, horror, science fiction, and speculative fiction. This collection should be his coming out party as one of the greatest short story writers of his generation.
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