{"id":3321,"date":"2023-01-25T14:47:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-25T19:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/?p=3321"},"modified":"2023-01-19T16:58:38","modified_gmt":"2023-01-19T21:58:38","slug":"recommended-read-mister-ice-cold-by-gahan-wilson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/2023\/01\/recommended-read-mister-ice-cold-by-gahan-wilson\/","title":{"rendered":"RECOMMENDED READ \u201cMister Ice Cold\u201d by Gahan Wilson"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

RECOMMENDED READ<\/strong> \u201cMister Ice Cold<\/a>\u201d by Gahan Wilson<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I first read this when I was 12\u2014already an avid reader of OMNI<\/em>, the 100% perfect magazine for my adolescent Mysteries of the Unknown<\/a><\/em> pre-X-Files<\/a><\/em> brain\u2014and it changed my world:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The chant-like repetition!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The onomatopoeia!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The unheimlich<\/em><\/a> at its core, the disconcerting flesh it shows peeking through the drowsy mundane skin of the midwestern suburbs (where I myself lived)–stumbling across this story was like like bitting into an orange that turns out to be full of blood-moist teeth and a Chinese fortune.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The goddamned art!!!\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Art<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The second person?!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In many ways it was exactly the sort of story I’d always want to write forever after.\u00a0 “In the Sharing Place<\/a>” is warped by the enormous gravity of this story–and especially its art–forever looming large just below the horizon of my brain.\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

(Incidentally, if you wanna read “In the Sharing Place” right now, $3 Patreon Patrons<\/a> get instant access to the story, audiobook, and 40-minute analog horror film versions.)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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