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"content": "A review of Dubhdris Abbey by Matthew Pungitore <br /><br />This is the third story in his anthology The Report of Mr. Charles Aalmers and other stories<br /><br /><a href=\"https://www.amazon.com/Report-Charles-Aalmers-other-stories-ebook/dp/B08R6FP3HQ/\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.amazon.com/Report-Charles-Aalmers-other-stories-ebook/dp/B08R6FP3HQ/</a><br /><br />This is a hallucinatory story with no coherent real world logic, but a bizarre internal, emotional, evil logic. Imagine a Lovecraft story about a character succumbing to madness through encounters with Entities From Beyond, but turned up to eleven, then turned some more until the knob breaks off and electrocutes the reader.<br /><br />The narrator meets an old friend, Rutger, who has fallen on hard times, and afterwards has a weird and disturbing dream about him. He recounts this to his religious mentor.<br /><br />\"I told Br. Conleth about Rutger and my dream, and he said I should give up these superstitions and ideas of make-believe. He said I was only plagued by too much imagination and too much alcohol and not enough time in service to God.\"<br /><br />He ignores this wise advice and upon meeting a seductive gypsy woman named Efrat, decides to pursue his researches into Rutger and that fellow's arcane life with her aid. <br /><br />\"I became aware of a secret burden and hidden desire in me, more than ever before; to see if I could come close to anything resembling the supernatural or underworld.\"<br /><br />He next encounters a cabal of evil monks, acolytes of a strange Lovecraftian cult, dedicated to ancient beings that 'keep open an interstice twixt the abysses and we.' The monks appear out of the blue and attempt to co-opt him into their plans, that have something to do with Rutger. The writing gets even more hallucinatory as he becomes their thrall.<br /><br />\"Voltaic caterwauling haemorrhaged across the all-around and within of the darkness surrounding.\"<br /><br />Sadly, there is no escape for him from his captors. <br /><br />\"I hoped there was a Christ to listen, but aware I was of my disbelief and lack of faith.\" <br /><br />At the end of the story, he becomes the vassal of the evil monks, and a vessel for the evil behind it all, much as the narrator of Black Torque Demon became the vessel of evil. His lack of faith and poor judgement in ignoring his mentor have condemned him to eternal torment.<br /><br />I find it hard to judge this story because it is so hallucinatory, disjointed, and outright weird. I'm not sure that my summary of the plot is anywhere near accurate, given how dreamlike and disjointed it all is. I might be recounting a completely different story for all I can remember. In fact, I've just looked back and there is even a framing story that I had completely forgotten about, driven out of my head by the screaming night terrors of the rest of it. <br /><br />Although, Dubhdris Abbey has little plot or structure, something in it drew me along, an undercurrent of crazy emotion. It was as if the author was channelling a malevolent entity in his own writing, and was taken over by it, much as the narrator ended up channelling the evil entity that had taken possession of him, and I couldn't stop reading. That is an occult power of its own, and I just hope I don't come to my own nasty end in following Pungitore's literary quest.<br /><br />",
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"content": "A review of Black Torque Demon by Matthew Pungitore<br /><br /><a href=\"https://www.amazon.com/Report-Charles-Aalmers-other-stories-ebook/dp/B08R6FP3HQ/\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.amazon.com/Report-Charles-Aalmers-other-stories-ebook/dp/B08R6FP3HQ/</a><br /><br />This is the second story in his anthology THE REPORT OF MR. CHARLES AALMERS and other stories.<br /><br />I am reading the stories in order and so have already read the title story. I liked that one very much, even though it was in a very bizarre style, or perhaps because of its very bizarre style. I’ll review that another time. Black Torque Demon is very much a change in style, and shows that Pungitore is ambitious. No sitting on his laurels and churning out the same thing over and over again.<br /><br />Sir Goswin is a knight in the thirteenth century who, with his squire Eric, joins a pilgrimage to the Vows of the Black Torque, 'a chivalrous and knightly order' who give shelter and medicine to the poor and other wretches. They become part of a group of pilgrims that include Goswin's love, the beautiful Adelaide, and other knights, servants and sundry others. On the way, and especially when they get to the castle of the Vows of the Black Torque, lots of weird and supernatural events occur, there are battles galore, and it all ends in gore, and manifestations of the infernal.<br /><br />The action moves along very quickly, with strange new events happening in virtually every paragraph – Pungitore never lets things flag – and the motivations, events, everything really, are told at the reader rather than shown. I’m a fan of ‘Tell, not Show’. There are times when you just have to move things along quickly and, if done well, telling is a great way to do it. This technique works very well in old school stories, but I'm not sure how well that will go down with a more modern audience, especially when it is used as much in this story. I would have liked the story to have slowed down a little, with more atmospheric detail. Perhaps I’ve been reading too much Arthur Machen lately.<br /><br />This choice of storytelling may constrain Pungitore's success. In this story he has chosen a fusion of the chivalrous romances (Arthurian) and the Gothic. The audience for stories that stick to the forms and style of either of these is very small. Most readers today expect something quite a bit different, and what worked for the audience a century or two ago will not necessarily work for the audience today – certainly not a broad audience. That’s the author’s choice though. Sometimes you have to go where the Muse takes you.<br /><br />One thing that does make the story a little more up to date, in quite a strange way, is that the ending turns into a series of boss fights from a video game set in fantasy land. Goswin faces, battles and defeats several villains, each more infernal and powerful than the last. Companions disappear through trapdoors, and villains pop out of secret doors, rather like in a fantasy RPG campaign. However, I’m not convinced that this works well. The last section feels too quick, with one adversary thrown onto the stage so quickly after another that it feels a little too much like a ‘first-person shooter’, but with knights versus zombies. The story would definitely work as a scenario for a video game.<br /><br />On the micro level, there's the occasional lapse in language, such as when Goswin says 'mystery and paranoia had surrounded the strange circumstances of their deaths'. A knight would not use the word ‘paranoia'. I doubt it was in common use at the time. Pungitore also uses what I call literary animism. A character doesn't smile, rather 'A slight smile manifested like a ghost on my lips.' It might just be me, but this gives agency (freewill) to everything in a story, even abstractions like a 'slight smile'. It saps the characters of their own agency, saps their energy. If an author is going to do this, they need to really push it so that everything, even the environment and the characters' own bodies, does seem like an entity acting on the main characters.<br /><br />Going big again, there is an opening scene with Goswin and his squire Eric where they encounter a strange spectral figure, before they join the pilgrims. For me, this scene felt either misplaced or not effectively joined to the rest of the story. The quick, harried style of writing (which I take as a deliberate choice) means that the opening scene didn’t create a sense of foreboding or foreshadowing for me, which is the only reason I can see for the scene to exist. That’s a limitation caused by Pungitore’s choices, not his ability to write. I thought this part needed an extra bit of work, or moving into the main body of the story.<br /><br />Points like this make me conclude that this story needed one more draft under a proper editor. This criticism doesn’t apply so much to the first story in the collection, The Report of Mr. Charles Aalmers, which I’ll review another time. Charles Aalmers was much more successful in using a classical style or structure (Lovecraftian) to achieve Pungitore’s goals.<br /><br />It may sound like I’m overly criticising the story, but I mostly write reviews like this to help the author see what an articulate reader thinks, and to show where I think they can improve what they are doing. I hope this is coming across in this review.<br /><br />On its own, Black Torque Demon is a fun story, atmospheric and quick to read, though with limitations that I think will restrict its audience. If that’s the audience Pungitore is aiming at, then he’s got it spot on, and well done. As part of a larger body of work, I can see that Pungitore is trying many different things, and I admire him for that. It’s only by experimenting that you can work out what you are good at or what topics you want to pursue.<br /><br />The introduction to the book gives a feel for what Pungitore’s bigger aims are, which go much beyond this story. Overall, I found this story enjoyable despite what I see as its flaws, so I am very happy to read the rest of the stories in the anthology. Pungitore's voice is much more interesting to me than that of most authors writing in the 'mainstream' of science fiction and fantasy, and he is venturing into some strange and weird places. I am very pleased to explore that territory with him.<br /><br />--<br /><br />Note: The author provided me with a free copy of the anthology.",
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I would have liked the story to have slowed down a little, with more atmospheric detail. Perhaps I’ve been reading too much Arthur Machen lately.\n\nThis choice of storytelling may constrain Pungitore's success. In this story he has chosen a fusion of the chivalrous romances (Arthurian) and the Gothic. The audience for stories that stick to the forms and style of either of these is very small. Most readers today expect something quite a bit different, and what worked for the audience a century or two ago will not necessarily work for the audience today – certainly not a broad audience. That’s the author’s choice though. Sometimes you have to go where the Muse takes you.\n\nOne thing that does make the story a little more up to date, in quite a strange way, is that the ending turns into a series of boss fights from a video game set in fantasy land. Goswin faces, battles and defeats several villains, each more infernal and powerful than the last. Companions disappear through trapdoors, and villains pop out of secret doors, rather like in a fantasy RPG campaign. However, I’m not convinced that this works well. The last section feels too quick, with one adversary thrown onto the stage so quickly after another that it feels a little too much like a ‘first-person shooter’, but with knights versus zombies. The story would definitely work as a scenario for a video game.\n\nOn the micro level, there's the occasional lapse in language, such as when Goswin says 'mystery and paranoia had surrounded the strange circumstances of their deaths'. A knight would not use the word ‘paranoia'. I doubt it was in common use at the time. Pungitore also uses what I call literary animism. A character doesn't smile, rather 'A slight smile manifested like a ghost on my lips.' It might just be me, but this gives agency (freewill) to everything in a story, even abstractions like a 'slight smile'. It saps the characters of their own agency, saps their energy. If an author is going to do this, they need to really push it so that everything, even the environment and the characters' own bodies, does seem like an entity acting on the main characters.\n\nGoing big again, there is an opening scene with Goswin and his squire Eric where they encounter a strange spectral figure, before they join the pilgrims. For me, this scene felt either misplaced or not effectively joined to the rest of the story. The quick, harried style of writing (which I take as a deliberate choice) means that the opening scene didn’t create a sense of foreboding or foreshadowing for me, which is the only reason I can see for the scene to exist. That’s a limitation caused by Pungitore’s choices, not his ability to write. I thought this part needed an extra bit of work, or moving into the main body of the story.\n\nPoints like this make me conclude that this story needed one more draft under a proper editor. This criticism doesn’t apply so much to the first story in the collection, The Report of Mr. Charles Aalmers, which I’ll review another time. Charles Aalmers was much more successful in using a classical style or structure (Lovecraftian) to achieve Pungitore’s goals.\n\nIt may sound like I’m overly criticising the story, but I mostly write reviews like this to help the author see what an articulate reader thinks, and to show where I think they can improve what they are doing. I hope this is coming across in this review.\n\nOn its own, Black Torque Demon is a fun story, atmospheric and quick to read, though with limitations that I think will restrict its audience. If that’s the audience Pungitore is aiming at, then he’s got it spot on, and well done. As part of a larger body of work, I can see that Pungitore is trying many different things, and I admire him for that. 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