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Fearful symmetries Paperback – 24 January 2019

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Fearful Symmetries is a very lengthy short story collection, awarded with the Bram Stoker Award, featuring dozens of short stories and very detailed story notes.The collection includes the stories: "Identity Crisis"; "Spare the Child"; "The Mechanical Boy"; "The Night is Freezing Fast"; "Yesterdays Child"; "In the Fast Lane"; "Nobodys Perfect"; "No Pain, No Gain"; "The Ring of Truth"; "The Cutty Black Sow"; "Love Letters"; "The Pleasure of Her Company"; "Prodigal Sun"; "Carmella and the Missing Piece"; "The Roadside Scalpel; Newspaper Man"; "The Wager"; "Time Enough for Sleep"; "Triptych di Amore"; "Looking for Mr. Flip"; "Between Floors"; "A Mind is a Terrible Thing"; "Under Your Skin"; "Rehearsals"; "Yog Sothoth Superstar"; "Lux et Veritas".Introduction by Rick Hautala. Cover Art by Wendy Saber Core.From Publishers Weekly:The 27 reprints in Monteleone's story collection span the last 22 years and are as much a chronicle of the course horror fiction has taken in that time as they are of the author's career. Several are solid dark fantasies that strive for a subtle sense of unease rooted in the troubled emotions of their characters. In the best of them, "Rehearsals," a Twilight Zonetype memory tale, a man watches his childhood replay itself as a painful stage drama he's desperate to rewrite. "Love Letters" is a skillfully underplayed blend of supernatural horror and psychological suspense, written as an exchange of letters in which one correspondent reveals an increasingly inhuman sensibility. Monteleone (Eyes of the Virgin, etc.) has used virtually every classic horror trope, from vampires in "Triptych di Amore," in which a seductive lamia destroys celebrity artists over the centuries, to Lovecraftian monsters in the tongue-in-cheek "Yog Sothoth, Superstar."

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Publisher : Independent Legions Publishing (24 January 2019)
Language : English
ISBN-10 : 8831959239
ISBN-13 : 978-8831959230
Dimensions : 13.97 x 2.84 x 21.59 cm

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Sweetjane

Fresh ideas or new twists

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I read a lot of short stories and many of those stories have the same or similar ideas. Monteleone has created fresh themes or put a new twist on familiar ones. There are many stories about the Devil, but the author combines that with the strong love between a grandfather and his grandson in "The Night is Freezing Fast." Other tales have been told about going back in time to change one's life, but "Rehearsals" puts a man's life on a stage with him as the participating audience. Most of my favorites are about children. "The Mechanical Boy" gives us a disturbed child finding his place in the world. "The Cutty Black Sow" chillingly describes a child's fear of an old legend. The one I liked best, "Yesterday's Child," is rather Bradbury-esque in telling how a suicidal man is saved by an unlikely encounter on Halloween. "Spare the Child," "No Pain, No Gain" and "Love Letters" are new and different. "The Wager" made me feel claustrophobic and "Between Floors" made me laugh. I wasn't terrified by any of the stories, but I don't think that was Monteleone's intent. What he has done is written a diverse group of stories with something for everyone. He also has written an introduction to each story, telling what inspired its creation.

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