Twisted Tales
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- £2.99
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- £2.99
Publisher Description
From Gold Pen Award-winner and master storyteller Brandon Massey come fourteen darker-than-night tales of sheer terror that will make your blood run cold. . .
• A man driving home from a Halloween costume party suddenly comes face to face with an evil that's all too real. . .
• An elderly woman, obsessed with obituaries, finds herself intimately connected with the dead in the most unlikely of ways. . .
• A lifelong racist is plunged into his ultimate nightmare. . .
• An unfaithful husband discovers to his horror that his attractive new neighbor has in mind seduction of the wickedest kind. . .
Prepare to be petrified by this chilling collection, certain to send you spiraling into a dark realm of imagination where the once-familiar becomes menacingly twisted. . .
Praise for the novels of Brandon Massey
"Stunning." --The Chicago Tribune
"I slept with the lights on." --QBR
"I've been waiting a long time for a writer like Brandon Massey." --Tananarive Due
"Spellbinding." --Zane
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Award-winning horror writer Massey (Within the Shadows) offers an uneven but spirited collection of short fiction that largely concerns bad guys getting their comeuppance. Massey is best when giving himself the time to flesh out his characters, as he does in "The Sting," the story of an arrogant lawyer and his phobias; the lawyer's a jerk, but he's got authentic, identifiable motives that make the firecracker ending really pop. "The Secret Door," about a smart high school grad forced to work as a janitor in a building with a mysterious room, conversely features a likable, believable narrator with a hopeful fate. And when he's on a roll, Massey uses small details to infuse even minor players with life: "Mr. Green had an annoying habit of explaining matters with which his employees were already familiar." However, the book is rife with drunk, abusive stepfathers, grandmotherly doppelg ngers, and victimized women getting their due. Massey plunges into his characters with gusto, but the repetition of themes and characters eventually starts to feel stale rather than cohesive.
