Praise for The Ocean and All Its Devices
Here’s just a wee bit of glowing praise for William Browning Spencer’s The Ocean and All of Its Devices, via Booklist:
Spencer’s second story collection, after The Return of Count Electric and Other Stories (1993), is a slim but extraordinary volume of strange and haunting tales beautifully told. The title story, which has a certain Lovecraftian atmosphere, concerns the puzzle of an enigmatic family’s annual off-season visit to a seaside resort… Spencer’s stories are scintillating creations, disturbing and beautiful, and his introduction about the perils of being a short story writer is an illuminating diversion, too.