"Spriggs displays a wide range of talents in both form and substance. He's equally comfortable in the short story, short-short and novella lengths. His tone varies from the gently whimsical to the truly nasty. He crosses genre lines with ease, showing strength in all forms of the fantastic, from horror to fantasy to science fiction. The book is aptly titled; every story is strange and all are suffused with a childlike sense of wonder. "
--Garrett Peck, Cemetery Dance* * *
"Wondrous Strange is strangely wonderful! Spriggs's style is filled with elegance, literary wit, and uncanny dread. His work builds to an inescapable climax that eschews the happy endings in the work of lesser fantasists. Although no stranger to shock and splat, Spriggs has a knack for writing soft horror with a hard-edged bite that always sneaks up on you. I enjoy the frisson of his endings immensely."
--Michael A. Arnzen, Bram Stoker-award-winning author of Grave Markings
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"Visionary settings, unusual story twists, quirky mixtures of horror and fantasy, plus a chance to see the world through the eyes of a variety of monsters. "
--Kristy Dark, Twilight Showcase
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"25 tales of terror and mayhem that are guaranteed to please horror aficionados of every stripe. From short, sharp shocks to elegant tales of haunted madness. . . . TombKeeper's highest recommendation."
--J. L. Comeau (The Tombkeeper), Creature Feature
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"Wondrous Strange is wondrous! Robin Spriggs writes with a pulp-era sense of discovery and awe. To read his stories is to believe that mystical, magical, wonderful things wait around every corner. The world is not the place you thought it to be, but someplace much more dangerous and fascinating, someplace that could only be described through the eyes of characters crafted by a writer as gifted as Spriggs."
--Brian A. Hopkins, Bram Stoker Award-winning author
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"Wondrous Strange is fantastic. Spriggs's stories are rich with the minerals of childhood terrors and adult fears mined in the depths where only horror legends such as Ray Bradbury have been spelunking. But make no mistake, Spriggs's style is his very own and shows the signs of a true master of fright . . . and wonder."--Bruce Ballon, author of Unseen Masters
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"Spriggs is a talented, dextrous spinner of tales."
--Hank Wagner, Hellnotes Newsletter
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"Spriggs writes from a heart filled with irony, which fills his fiction with moments of dark humor and cutting horror. His characters, with their quirks and skewed visions, are as real and true as your next-door neighbor. Read him if you want to know what's really going on behind those closed doors, those pulled-down shades. Read him if you need to know where the next shot's coming from, or where you might be heading. . . ."
--Gerard Houarner, author of Painfreak and The Beast That Was Max
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"From the fantastic to the horrific to the humorous, these 'Tales of the Uncanny' kept me burning the night oil into the wee hours. The new millennium welcomes such a pure voice in fantastic fiction. A true pleasure from a true original!"
--Brent Glenn, Shadows from the Glenn
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"Quirky mysteries, weirdo types, fabulous events, spooky dramas of varying length, but all high-quality genre/literary style. Steeped in lores of folk & movies, author mines gold from overlapping fringes of commonplace tropes."
--Dragon's Breath: International Small Press Review
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"A heart twister."
--Steven Sawicki, The Skeptic Tank
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Wondrous Strange is both wondrous and strange. The stories are haunting and hypnotic. They are quiet horror; the type of stories that gnaw at you long after you've put the book away. They are stories you won't easily forget." Bella Online* * *
"Robin Spriggs writes visions dark and light, creating epic, cosmic, and personal horror with which we can all connect."
--William D. Gagliani, The Chiaroscuro
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"Robin Spriggs sometimes reminds you of early Ray Bradbury ("Mr. Aberystwyth And The Three Weird Sisters") and then knocks you flat with something as dark as Joe R. Lansdale in a black mood ("Her And Him In The Cold Dark Underneath"). Spriggs is a genuine talent, gifted with an ability to be diverse and yet crisp and clear in any number of ways. I recommended him for a Stoker recently. Can't wait to buy his first novel! Everyone who loves short stories in the horror, fantasy and dark fiction genres should buy this book."
--Harry Shannon, author of Bad Seed
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"I relaxed and knew I was in the hands of someone who knew what they wanted to tell and how to tell it."
--Gene-Michael Higney, author of Shivers: Stories Cold and Dark
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"A nifty, paranoid, end-of-the-world effort."
--Jim Lee, The Skeptic Tank
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"A wonderful cobwebby creeper."
--Jim Lee, author of The Cage of Bones and Other Deadly Obsessions
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"Spriggs writes like a motherf**ker!"
--Patrick Queen, one hell of a cook
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