Thriller, horror, and suspense short stories. Multiple Award-Winning authors. A is for Addiction…B is for Barnacles…C is for Clairvoyance…Discover the rest of these original horror stories from around the world. Each author chose a letter of the alphabet and was given complete artistic freedom to make something horrible happen. Some stories will be mysterious, others creepy or even … something horrible happen. Some stories will be mysterious, others creepy or even profound, but all are crafted to thrill and terrify you to the last page.
This is what happens when dozens of uncensored creative people are allowed to mine the depths of the human psyche for the most depraved, twisted, horrible things imaginable.
Special edition with intricate full-page illustrations bring the stories to life!
Excerpt:
What it really meant was she was rotting away in a cage of her own flesh. The weight of her own body had crushed the flesh on her backside so that it had stopped circulating blood, had started to die. It meant that, after only twenty-six days of freedom, I had to go home and take care of her again. I came back to a familiar smell of piss and sweat and mold; but that was all mixed with a new taint, the sour and yet sickeningly-sweet smell of rotting flesh. She wasn’t in her usual chair. Instead, I found her collapsed on a mattress in a bedroom she hadn’t used for as long as I could remember, the springs creaking under her weight. She was dressed in a simple blue shirt, almost like a hospital gown, and lifting up the bottom edge, my eyes came level to where she was rotting.
– N is for Necrosis
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Some stories were really entertaining, but others fell flat. There were a small number of editing mistakes (repeated words, sentences that weren’t quite finished) that I wish had been caught since they seemed to highlight that this was authored by amateur enthusiasts. Still, you can tell they had a lot of fun writing this, and I’m glad to have read the finished product.
Also, though I liked the idea of connecting the stories to a greater plot, it would have been more effective to do so in a more subtle way. The last few stories go deep into exposition of how everything is related, and, as others have pointed out, it’s hard to follow. The first few stories give you just a little nugget of information to /imply/ this and was much more fun.
I really didn’t care for the book.
A little hard to follow.
Fun short stories. Some better than others.
Interesting set of independent-related stories which were mixed quality. Interesting way to mix in related events/concepts throughout the stories.
There were a few good stories in there but not enough to call this a good book. I would not read again.
not very good.
From A to Z scary and on the edge.
Definitely written by enthusiastic amateur writers; few of these stories were particularly scary or intriguing. On the other hand, the eagerness of the writers to participate in the overall project and create a slowly congealing storyline was charming and kept me reading to the finish.
As with any collection, some stories are good and some are not. A few have even been quite fresh, original and scary. Worth the read.
First of all, this book wasn’t at all what I expected. Usually a collection like this contains unconnected stories, sometimes written by different authors. That was not the case with this book.
Each story was named for a letter of the alphabet (hence the name), with a different author’s name on each. However, I think that Mr. Tobias Wade actually wrote each of the stories since they had a similar writing style.
Some of the stories were quite creepy, but some were just disturbing. There was a smattering of sci-fi, some serial killers, a “priest” leading believers in a cult, and a lot of sexual perversion. In fact, it seemed like most of the stories had a sexual undertone, even when it really didn’t add much to the tale.
A few of the stories had some haunting qualities about them and I will never look at barnacles in the same way! The “B” story called “Barnacles” was probably the best of the lot.
There were some threads connecting the stories to each other in the way that something in one story was a reference to another story. The last chapter was (supposedly) the wrap up of the collection, but I just didn’t see it.
The narrator did a good job, but like another reviewer said, his very British accent was not a good fit for this Midwestern set of stories. Nothing against the narrator, it just didn’t fit.
All in all, this just wasn’t that good of a horror collection in my opinion. I never really got that creepy, look behind you feeling while I was reading this book. My feelings were more revulsion at some of the things that were described but weren’t scary, just disgusting. There was some horror, but not that much. I was given a copy of this audiobook by Audiobook Boom and chose to review it.