His stories are moral, for his anti-heroes receive fitting fates, and honest, for his people face biting truths, as when a ghoul hears from a corpse she's eaten, "I knew life and love and happiness. If McNaughton’s work is macabre, with graphic sex and violence aplenty, it is also funny, delighting in the human comedy, especially via dramatic irony (e.g., when a mob thinks they’re rescuing a child from a ghoul), and in the well-turned phrase or the piquant word (e.g., "This apparently caused him to miss a fire or massacre or other popular diversion, for when he emerged in the evening, the street outside his house pullulated with quidnuncs"). Howard, Jack Vance, and Tannith Lee, all informed by McNaughton's voice and vision. The stories read like a meld of Clark Ashton Smith, H. This review maybe over the top, the writing is well crafted.īrian McNaughton's World Fantasy Award-winning collection of mordant epic horror tales, The Throne of Bones (1997), is set in a world of decadent cities like Crotalorn (home of the Dreamers’ Hill necropolis), Sythiphore (home of piscine eroticists), and Fandragord (home of evil) where aristocrats, scholars, cultists, poets, prostitutes, barbarians, necromancers, the undead, ghouls, and the like pursue love, art, life, and death. This book and mostly the narration actualy made me feel unsafe and replused, at times, if i dwelled on it too much. I thought about this book and writer, he is so talented and at times makes the horror so realistic and simple that it might put you off and maybe thats why he might not be as well know and well read as he should be. If you were to make a film of this book, what would the tag line be? I forget the name, but the story of the nobel and his wife who wants to become a ghoul, and how that happens, is an insight to horror fiction and mental illness. Which character – as performed by Wayne June – was your favorite? The short story "The King in Yellow", "Our Lady of the Flowers" " The Story of the Eye" "Crash" The movies "Irreversable" and "The Road". What other book might you compare The Throne of Bones to and why? I don't think ive had as much of a visceral reaction to a book or a preformance than i did to this one. I felt threatened by the outstanding narration, the menace in the narrators voice and the plot of all the short storys made me feel uneasy and frankly disgusted at times. This book is so well writen and so well preformed, I had to put it down from time to time, because it started to effect me.
What did you love best about The Throne of Bones?
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