Beautiful Days: Stories
One of 2024’s superlative debuts, a glorious creepfest reminiscent of speculative collections by Carmen Maria Machado, Mariana Enríquez and other children of Lovecraft ... The author’s technique is subtle but strikes with a bullwhip’s torque ... Williams expands the book’s contours much as helium fills a hot-air balloon, wafting us to the heights of his imagination.
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A debut book so electrifying, so original, such an auspicious announcement of a major talent, that it makes the hair stand up on the back of your neck ... The stories’ subjects seem to have bubbled up from a fertile, teeming, uninhibited subconscious, and yet the prose is precise, musical, and exquisitely calibrated for maximum effect.
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Williams delivers intensity on page after page ... His prose is precise, witty and full of vivid imagery ... A powerful, unsettling, genuinely thrilling collection, one that singles Williams out as a must-read voice in fiction.
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