Categorie: Amazon
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The Shivers Collection 1. Jackknife
Review: Barking up the wrong tree Jackknife is the first of five new short stories collected for Amazon Original Stories. A few years ago there was a collection of stories with creatures as antagonists, this time the stories will make you shiver! When down-on-his-luck Dennis Lang, who is involved in a scandal with one of…
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An Amazon original stories: Ushers
https://a.co/d/e1iwgbL Review: Joe Hill has mastered the art of short stories, just like his father, where in only a limited amount of pages he brings a terrifying and creepy tale. ‘Ushers’ provides all that in only just 29 pages! Martin Lorensen is a twenty-three year old counselor for disturbed teenagers, who has escaped death twice…
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Creature Feature Collection: Big Bad
Review: I have to be completely honest, this was not my favourite story from the six Amazon originals. The first half of the story was slow and just couldn’t get my attention. It’s a wonder I made it to half the story (of it would have been a book of 200 or 300 pages I’d…
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Creature Feature Collection: Best of Luck
Review: A joke, that’s what starts this story. A joke about a man who has a string of bad luck. A joke told from one friend to another, while pointing a gun to that friend. Life is hard when your life is one misfortunate event after another, when that one friend you’re friends with for…
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Creature Feature Collection: In Bloom
Review: Best one so far in this collection of shorts!Heidi is on her way to Jimmy Lang who will tell her the story of how his father disappeared after an encounter with algae.Heidi is writing for newspapers the stories about climate change and the appearance of blue algae in ponds and such.Jimmy Lang was twelve…
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Creature Feature Collection: It waits in the Woods
Review: Brenda is fifteen when her younger sister Amanda disappears in the woods of Michigan, UNF (aka Ucatanani National Forest)For three years no one finds any trace of her and no one even considers the impossible possibility of Amanda being taken by Opso, a faceless demonlike creature of legends.When Brenda turns eighteen she leaves the…
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Creature Feature Collection: Ankle Snatcher
Review: The stories are true! That monster hiding in the closet? The one underneath your bed? Parents tell these stories to scare their kids. But what if the stories were true? What if something ís hiding there, wanting to get to you?When Marcus has a second date with the woman he thinks could be the…
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Creature Feature Collection: The Pram
Review: Grief and obsession, two themes that are often the reason for great horror stories. When Willy and Marianne level behind Brooklyn to move to rural Maine in an old farmhouse, they leave behind pain and grief for a never born baby. Their inability to have children is harsh and they want to start a…
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