Review of "Hope Screams Eternal" from Inky Bones Press
- Megan Diedericks
- 3 days ago
- 2 min read
Updated: 7 hours ago
Hope Screams Eternal is an amazing book. There’s art, poetry, and fiction—everything you could want in a book all rolled into one!
This book is creatively separated into three parts, each a word of the title, with the pieces perfectly matching the part it’s under! Here are some quick thoughts I had about each part:
Part I: HOPE
Hope comes in all shapes and sizes, some darker than others.
Part II: SCREAMS
Screaming implies something large, something that echoes. Yet the silence, the softness and calmness that follows, can be much louder.
Part III: ETERNAL
Truth, justice, and the past are all eternally haunting.
Below follows a list of my favorite pieces, in the order they appear in (each including some thoughts, as much as I can say without giving it all away!)
• Hope Comes to Exhilaration – Ellen Hall
A beautiful story that I cannot stop thinking about!
• Hope Rekindled – Robin Knabel
I love every story I've read by Robin, this is no exception. There's friendship and something real in the midst of this horror, I almost wish for a part two!
• Scream – Fawn Allesee Russell
I struggle to turn my eyes away every time I look at this art piece.
• A Murder of Screams – Mark McCallum
So eerie and well-written, and I loved the ending!
• The Eternal Mr. Tremblay – Brian J. Smith
Such a creative story! It’s almost warm, but it also left me feeling haunted.
• Eternally, Swans – Ashley Winter
These three lines from the poem really struck me in the face, and left an impression: "They said she felt no pain / And I believe that to be true / She left it all here for me."
• The Eternal Huntsman – Katherine M. McDowell
Absolutely transportational, and I love it when a story knows when there's a line not to cross.
• Eternal Victory Aboard the Mammon – Linda McMullen
Incredible storytelling, and I love the main character so much!
Overall, I thoroughly enjoyed this book, as well as the common thread tying the pieces together. Though each piece is vastly different from the one before, and after, you can still feel the unity:
Bunnies. Spring. What lies beyond, and what lies between the lines.
Definitely would recommend Hope Screams Eternal to anyone who loves the weird, the cosmic, and the grotesque.
