The Outlaw Album
Stories

the first two stories in this collection are perfect, to my mind. they are both revenge stories, where the revenge is played out in very original ways, which i do not wish to spoil here. after that, the collection veers from its highs to its lows. many of these stories end right when they are starti......more

Yet another thrilling installment of Kemper’s Bouchercon adventures: I haven’t read a lot of Daniel Woodrell, but Winter’s Bone and Woe to Live On* had impressed me so much that I made a point to attend a panel that he was on along with Megan Abbott and some others regarding crime stories set in isol......more

This slim volume is a collection of short stories by the author best known for his novel, Winter's Bone. As in most of Woodrell's work, the people in these stories are rural characters. Most of them are vulnerable and wounded. Some of them are very sympathetic; others are repellant, but they are all......more

I enjoyed this story collection by respected author Daniel Woodrell but it unfortunately suffers from the thing that threatens to plague many collections: the stories might not be very consistent in quality. There were several tales that really stood out, will definitely appeal to fans of his work,......more

These are stories of the darkness of the heart, in which he writes so well about. He has conjured up a motley crew of characters here, some you will find are brutal and dysfunctional. Immerse yourself in the bleak and black abyss as dark as sin itself. There is also tenderness and loyalty in these s......more