Review: The Lantern Review, Spring Issue

The Lantern Review has always trusted its readers to sit in the dark a little longer than is comfortable, and the spring issue is no exception. Of its nine stories, six end without resolution, and five of those are better for it.

The standout is a slim piece about a woman who keeps misplacing hours—a premise we have since adapted for the podcast with the author's blessing. It does more with a hallway clock than most novels manage with a haunted house.

If the issue stumbles, it is in its closing essay, which explains its own horror until the horror politely excuses itself. A small sin in an otherwise patient collection.