After following the Horror Society on Twitter for a while, I was very excited to read this book. The people in the society know their stuff and with this book no gut is left un-churned, no twist denied and no moral ground left intact.
Included are eleven short stories:
LOAF DIVINE door Canaan Frank: A hotel seeks out the twisted secrets that lie within the past and conscience of a man
DEAD RINGERS door David Blackthorn: College students have an eventful night sleeping amongst the graves of plague victims
A VAMPIRE WALKS INTO A BAR door Aaron straal, ray Ballard: A bar that plays host to many unnatural beasts has a interesting night.
JUMP $20 door Marc E.Fitch: Tax laws and strange coincidence turn one man's cliffside home pagina into a troublesome buy lucrative business.
MY LOVER, MY GARDEN door Erik Gustafson: An obsession with gardening makes simple vegetation turn nasty.
THE INVISIBLE ENEMY door Bryan Cassiday: When a disease of indifference to violence breaks out, how do u beat something u cannot see.
THE LUNCH PAIL door W.B.Stickel: An item hidden inside a child's lunch pail causes sheer mayhem at a school. But what is this mysterious item?
THE SPECIMEN door Angela Pritchett: A professor researching miracles of the sea drags up something from the depths that should have stayed in the deep dark.
HAIR AND TEETH door Katie Jones: In an apocalyptic world a man trained in the art of butchery survives in the only way he knows how.
DOGS WANT TO EAT u door Ralph Robert Moore: Dogs have their dag in the most horrific of ways.
BONUS STORY door cover artist
u DON'T HAVE TO GO home pagina door Manny Serrano: A meeting with fate stalks a couple on a night out.
This is a very enjoyable book mainly because of the vast differences in each story. With just a general theme being horror the writers and editors are gegeven free reign to let their twisted minds spit out whatever they like so u are never sure what type of story you'll be dealing with next. Gruesome? Gory? Humourous? Mythical? Mysterious? All the stories are well written, engaging and inventive ending with a brief but informative Bio of the auteur for those wishing to extend their reading.
Included are eleven short stories:
LOAF DIVINE door Canaan Frank: A hotel seeks out the twisted secrets that lie within the past and conscience of a man
DEAD RINGERS door David Blackthorn: College students have an eventful night sleeping amongst the graves of plague victims
A VAMPIRE WALKS INTO A BAR door Aaron straal, ray Ballard: A bar that plays host to many unnatural beasts has a interesting night.
JUMP $20 door Marc E.Fitch: Tax laws and strange coincidence turn one man's cliffside home pagina into a troublesome buy lucrative business.
MY LOVER, MY GARDEN door Erik Gustafson: An obsession with gardening makes simple vegetation turn nasty.
THE INVISIBLE ENEMY door Bryan Cassiday: When a disease of indifference to violence breaks out, how do u beat something u cannot see.
THE LUNCH PAIL door W.B.Stickel: An item hidden inside a child's lunch pail causes sheer mayhem at a school. But what is this mysterious item?
THE SPECIMEN door Angela Pritchett: A professor researching miracles of the sea drags up something from the depths that should have stayed in the deep dark.
HAIR AND TEETH door Katie Jones: In an apocalyptic world a man trained in the art of butchery survives in the only way he knows how.
DOGS WANT TO EAT u door Ralph Robert Moore: Dogs have their dag in the most horrific of ways.
BONUS STORY door cover artist
u DON'T HAVE TO GO home pagina door Manny Serrano: A meeting with fate stalks a couple on a night out.
This is a very enjoyable book mainly because of the vast differences in each story. With just a general theme being horror the writers and editors are gegeven free reign to let their twisted minds spit out whatever they like so u are never sure what type of story you'll be dealing with next. Gruesome? Gory? Humourous? Mythical? Mysterious? All the stories are well written, engaging and inventive ending with a brief but informative Bio of the auteur for those wishing to extend their reading.
Flash fiction seems to be a growing trend and in this ebook it is done brilliantly. Using EXACTLY 100 words for a story must be tricky,to instantly interest the reader but not leave them frustrated that the story ended too soon. Most of the stories included here deal with zombies. Seen from many angles there is a crude nasty humour that runs throughout most of them. It tasteless and dark but magnificent and exactly what horror fans want. There are other stories included that are of normal short story length and deal with different topics that include apocalypse and weird fantasy.
This collection is high on quality and although u may read it in one sitting some of the tales here will stay in your head for a while after. Well written and edited it is definitely worth your time.
This collection is high on quality and although u may read it in one sitting some of the tales here will stay in your head for a while after. Well written and edited it is definitely worth your time.
Sound bizarre? It is. It's also blistering witty, extremely violent, filled with acidic one-liners and lashings of gore. This book (the auteur remains nameless) is for anyone who loves a bit of anarchy in their reading material. The plot jumps all over the place and u have to keep up and still,just when u think you've got it all figured out, there's a twist.For it's sheer inventiveness, this book is highly recommended.