After Shocks: An Anthology of So-Cal Horror
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| Rating | : | 4.29 (756 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0970009704 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 221 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-09-28 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Lovecraft's New England was more memorable than any of his characters. This is the magic of modern horror. King's New England will never be mistaken for Lovecraft's. King's small towns Campbell's aging, industrial England Brite's decadent South Sallee's nightmare visions of Chicago Lansdale's twisted Texas The list is endless. An anthology of horror tales set in the geologically unstable LA area. As disparate as the above writers are, they all manage to create a recognizable place and time. Terrifying because just maybe they are more real than the artificially constructed realities we choose to live in each day" "highly charged, bizarre, a bit fractured, and unsettling in the right kind of way. Places that their real life denizens recognize - places that are both comfortingly familiar and terrifyingly unique. After Shocks is a solid anthology with a well-executed sense of the locale." - Fiona Webster, Horror Garage. 12 stories of terror and magic realism by: * Michael Scott Bricker * Denise Dumars * Lisa Mo
"Nawww" according to ThirstyMindBooks via Rachel Dean. NOt Really any "horror" - like I'm used to, anyway. I prefer rough, fast and hard horror. These are more like disturbing stories. A few might be classified as horror, but not what you'd expect.
Lisa Morton's "El Cazador" and Stephen Woodworth's "Street Runes" both decode dark truths encrypted in the tags of Los Angeles graffiti artists. But little beneath the surface of these stories is specific to their locale, and like Nancy Holder's "The Heart in Darkness" and Robert Guffey's "The Infant Kiss," both of which feature protagonists haunted by discarnate manifestations of cancer, they could just as effectively be set in another urban or suburban milieu. The few stories that conjure a unique spirit for Southern California are gems, including Christa Faust's "Bodywork," which finds a bizarre intersecti