Richard Parks

Collection of short stories appeared in various publications.

The Ogre's Wife - Fairy Tales for Grownups

Janice Hopper

I quite liked many of the stories in this book. I'm especially fond of stories that riff on myths or tales from other cultures, and this book had some good ones. "Golden Bell, Seven, and the Marquis of Zeng" was a lovely story to end the book on. This story and "A Place to Begin" made me remember Barry Hughart's novels too. This is a good thing. :) 

I thought the Eli Mothersbaugh stories were the weakest in the book. They made me think of Carnacki the Ghost Finder, by William Hope Hodgson, though Parks' stories are gentler and less dramatic than Hodgson's.

There were quite a few typos in my ebook edition. It looked more like one from the early days of ebooks, when OCR errors and artifacts were more common than they are now. That's a shame.

The Ogre's Wife - Fairy Tales for Grownups

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