Dog Boy
and Other Harrowing Tales is available from Amazon.com, BarnesAndNoble.com, and bookstores and libraries in your area.
“In Dog Boy and Other Harrowing Tales, Erica-Lynn Huberty reminds us what fiction is all about: beautiful writing, vivid characters, and an imagination
that truly soars. A remarkable debut.”
~ Ann Hood
bestselling author of The Knitting Circle, Comfort, and The Red Thread
“At a time when most authors of contemporary literature seem obsessed with humor and shying away from documenting the painful aspects of our existence, Erica-Lynn Huberty [has written] a book of stories whose immediate goal is not to entertain or humor us, but to liberate us from this desire… It is one thing to tell a story set in different times and milieu using contemporary language; it is an entirely different thing to do so using the language that is reflective of the times. A daring adventure this is for any writer, Ms. Huberty pulls it off magnificently. These six stories stand out as exceptional works of fiction.”
~ Mohammed Naseehu Ali
author The Prophet of Zongo Street
"[Dog Boy…] is a distinctly American investigation of the emotional corners into which people retreat to pass their lives… Through [Ms. Huberty’s] eyes we perceive the form and function of compromise, the alignments and contradictions of love, the voids and solids of nostalgia, the simple
pleasures and terrors of looking, seeing, and feeling."
~ Hilary Thayer Hamann
author Anthropology of an American Girl
MORE PRAISE FOR DOG BOY
San Francisco Book Review
Sept. 2010
“A masterful collection of tales with an array of voices and circumstances that reflects a poetic, modern-Gothic tradition of storytelling.”
- San Francisco Book Review
curled up
with a good book
Oct. 2010
“… on a chilly autumn night, there may be no better read then Huberty’s collection of short writings. If Fitzgerald had written horror, the result may have been
something like this…”
- Curled Up With A Good Book
clarion ForeWord Reviews
November 2010
“Erica-Lynn Huberty’s idiosyncratic narrators add a luminescent quality to the gothic tales they tell. Her meticulous attention to the unique sensibilities of time stamps her plots, drawing the reader into unexpected contemplation of the shape of an era.”
-ForeWord Reviews
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August 2010
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“Dark, haunting, beautiful. Erica-Lynn Huberty taps each of these shadowy veins in the six short stories that comprise Dog Boy: and Other Harrowing Tales. Through these stories—varied in time, space, and voice, yet bound together by common and universal themes—Huberty masterfully incorporates traditionally gothic elements with modern perspectives to create richly textured narratives that reveal to the reader as much about himself as anything of the external universe.
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Throughout Dog Boy…, Huberty defies convention by successfully fitting familiar tropes into new wineskins. Huberty’s enchanting prose and insightful characterization turn the traditional romantic fare of murders, ghosts, and haunted houses into living, breathing, relevant portals to human behavior (and human compulsion) in a post-modern age. Huberty weaves a number of common motifs through these seemingly disparate narratives, including a focus on the relationship shared between humans and animals. Huberty uses these inter-special relationships to explore the intra-special relationships shared between humans and the varied ways that we attempt to reconcile the past to the present to the future.
Dog Boy… is a testament not only to Huberty’s skill as an author, but also her nuanced understanding of the human psyche. Without question, Dog Boy… deserves a place on the shelf of any discerning reader.” -
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September 2010
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“...a collection of six stories by Erica-Lynn Huberty that don't share a common character, time or place, but instead contributes, as a whole, an uneasy sense of the uncertain or unknown....Though there are supernatural and paranormal elements to some of the stories, none would be considered categorically "horror". They aren't all that suspenseful, either, in a "keep the lights on" sort of way. Rather, each narrative proceeds on a path that has an indefinite outcome. To be sure, a couple of the stories have rather ambiguous, open-ended conclusions. While this may frustrate some readers, this approach is consistent with the overall structure of how the stories are plotted and play out.
Overall, Dog Boy and Other Harrowing Tales is an interesting collection of well-crafted stories that tends to be more literary than genre (if such a distinction can be drawn) that will likely appeal most to readers who appreciate nuanced, character-driven storylines.” -
-Mysterious Reviews
“The bulk of Huberty's collection takes its cues from Gothic writers such as Edgar Allan Poe and the innovator of the genre, Horace Walpole, and these works show a deep understanding of the genre's disturbing charms—consistently hovering between the mundane and the extraordinary, constantly calling into question what is real and what is perception...”
-Kirkus Reviews
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