Dark, Dark, and More Dark

After reading Donald Ray Pollock’s dark and gripping The Devil All the Time, I ordered his debut collection of short stories, Knockemstiff.

Like Pollock’s novel, the stories in Knockemstiff are deeply disturbing—tales of the down and disenfranchised in southern Ohio.  It’s hard to read more than a few of these stories in one sitting, but fans of Pollock’s unique literary perspective will appreciate this collection.