Categorie: short story
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Creature Feature Collection: Big Bad
Author: Chandler Baker Publisher: Amazon Original Stories Publishing year: 2023 Number of pages: 58 Cover Design: Faceout Studio, Spencer Fuller ISBN: 978-1662514890 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…
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Creature Feature Collection: Best of Luck
Author: Jason Mott Publisher: Amazon Original Stories (kindle) Publishing year: 2023 Number of pages: 28 Cover Design: Faceout Studios, Spencer Fuller ISBN: 978-1662516719 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…
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Creature Feature Collection: In Bloom
Author: Paul Tremblay Publisher: Amazon Original Stories Publishing year: 2023 Number of pages: 35 Cover Design: Faceout Studios, Spencer Fuller ISBN: 978-1662516900 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…
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Creature Feature Collection: It waits in the Woods
Author: Josh Malerman Publisher: Amazon Original Stories Publishing year: 2023 Number of pages: 52 Cover design: Faceout Studio, Spencer Fuller ISBN: 978-1662518317 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…
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Creature Feature Collection: Ankle Snatcher
Author: Grady Hendrix Publisher: Amazon Original Stories Publishing year: 2023 Number of pages: 29 Cover design: Faceout Studio, Spencer Fuller ISBN: 978-1662517051 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…
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Creature Feature Collection: The Pram
Author: Joe Hill Publisher: Amazon Original Stories Publication year: 2023 Number of pages: 57 Cover design: Faceout Studio, Spencer Fuller ISBN: 978-1662516894 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…
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Anthology review ‘Devil’s Rejects’
Edited by Michael R. Goodwin Authors: Jay Alexander, Jacob Ian DeCoursey, Miguel Gonçalves, Michael R. Goodwin, Spencer Hamilton, Kay Hanifen, Marcus Hawke, Ryan Marie Ketterer, Nikki R. Leigh, Jeremy Megargee, Grace R. Reynolds, Jamie Stewart Publisher: Dark Pine Publishing Publishing year: 2022 Number of pages: 260 ISBN: 979-8826291993 My rating: 3,5/5 Synopsis: When you’re a…
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No Strings
Author: Jamie Stewart Publisher: independently published Publishing year: 2022 Number of pages: 27 My rating: 4/5 Synopsis: Jamie Stewart, the author who took you to Montague’s Carnival of Delights and Terror, presents a wicked tale of what happens when we sever the strings that bind us. No Strings is the story of Lyra, a child…
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The Ritual: a Holiday Folk Horror Story
Author: Michael R. Goodwin Publisher: independently published Publishing year: 2021 Number of pages: 17 (kindle) My rating: 4,5/5 Synopsis: “Let us bow our heads and close our eyes,” the villagers chanted, “for the Bell waits not for the one who dies.” In the square, the villagers had gathered for The Ritual, which hasn’t been performed…
