Categorie: kortverhalen
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De eerlijke vinder
Boekenweekgeschenk 2023 https://dasmag.nl/product/de-eerlijke-vinder/ Review: Eind jaren negentig, de tienjarige Jimmy Sluis is volop in de ban van de Flipo-rage en is dan ook op zoek naar de ontbrekende exemplaren uit zijn collectie. Dubbel zelfs want ook voor zijn Albanese vriend Tristan Abrachimi vult hij een map. Jimmy is slim maar is ook een buitenbeentje, hij…
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Full Throttle
Review: This is a collection of thirteen stories, two of them completely new for the collection, all the others have been published somewhere else before. A few of these stories will get a separate review (such as Throttle and In the Tall Grass, both co-written with Stephen King). The review for Throttle is already online:…
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De waarheid over het liegen
https://www.meulenhoff.nl/producten/de-waarheid-over-het-liegen-9789402320183 Review: Een aantal boekenliefhebbers in de Bookstagram community hadden me Benedict Wells aangeraden omdat volgens hen de schrijfstijl en vooral de pakkende verhalen hun diep hadden geraakt. Dus ik ben dan makkelijk beïnvloedbaar en heb me laten verleiden om het recentst vertaalde boek ‘De Waarheid over het Liegen’ te lezen… en ik ga heel…
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Full Throttle: Throttle
Review: This is Hill & King’s own take on a road trip gone bad with a truck and a few bikers! Joe Hill was asked to write a story for a Richard Matheson tribute collection. Immediately he knew what to write, a tribute to Matheson’s Duel (later adapted into a movie, the debut film of…
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Kuifje: Special 77 jaar
Het Weekblad voor de jeugd van 7 tot 77 jaar https://www.standaarduitgeverij.be/product/kuifje-special-77-jaar-9789086771783/ Review: Deze luxueuze hardcover strip is een hommage die de 77-jarige verjaardag viert van een weekblad dat in 1946 ontstond en die ongeveer 50 jaar heeft bestaan: het weekblad Kuifje! Dit weekblad heeft in de loop van die vijftig jaar heel wat stripfiguren geïntroduceerd…
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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: 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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