Comments on: Eyes of the God: The weird fiction and poetry of R.H Barlow.
It is a collection full of short pithy and ironic pieces of sardonic humor and rye observations on the human condition. The shorter pieces that make up the bulk of the collection show the clear evolution towards what could be called the twin pinnacles of his fiction work
A Dim-Remembered Story and
The Night Ocean (well the one before and hte couple after are quite good to).
His work clearly shows the influence of CAS HPL and especially Dunsany
Most of the fiction is no more than a page or three long but Barlow manages to make his point with out the redundant fill often used to make up the word count and therefore profit he author.
Unfortunately he stopped writing fiction when he was just getting good.
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Edited by S. T. Joshi, David E. Schultz and Douglas A.Anderson. October 2002.
ISBN 0967321549,. 209 pages. Paperback. $15.00
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