"This book assembles essays which are both valuable 'eyewitness accounts' of Doctor Who's mythic status in television culture at the close of the first decade of the twenty-first century, and applications of methods used across disciplines to assess Doctor Who's debt to legend, particularly the Nordic and classical traditions, as well as modern and postmodern anxieties concerning gender and power. Its authors display awareness of the importance of Doctor Who's longevity in shaping its multi-authored identity since 1963; they are drawn from inside and outside academic life and so offer a rich diversity of voices for the consideration for students, critics and historians of contemporary media."
—Matthew Kilburn, Oxford Doctor Who Society

 

In Florida Gothic Stories, Vicki Hendricks has crafted some near-perfect gems of noir—taking noir’s twisty characters and plots and twisting them even further in imaginative and surprising ways. ...The word gothic also describes these stories—surreal, grotesque tales of violence, decay, and desperation, in the tradition of Southern writers such as Faulkner and O’Connor.

By the end of Florida Gothic Stories, readers might wonder about Hendricks herself. Where does she get these stories? Does she know the characters? Has she had these feelings and experiences?

And by evoking such feelings, Hendricks demonstrates the dark power of her stories—enough so to make readers excited at the thought of moving on to her acclaimed noir novels.

Reviewer Michael Lipkin is a Senior Editor for a major publishing house and the writer and editor for Noir Journal.