Each participant was asked to write 80-100 words to continue a Halloween-themed story. The only catch was that each writer was only given the entry immediately preceding theirs. No context, no idea what had happened before. The result is a sort of tale that has been stitched together like Frankenstein’s monster.
REVIEW: WINTER PEOPLE by Jennifer McMahon
This book was terrifying. Delightfully so. I rarely get so wholly absorbed. I read all the time, but it is as time allows – a quiet hour on the weekend or a few minutes before bed. With this book, I was making time to read so I could keep up with its breathless pace. I even…
REVIEW: YOUR HOUSE IS ON FIRE, YOUR CHILDREN ALL GONE by Stefan Kiesbye
This book nearly defies description, but here goes. The novel is a spider web of small tales, each with an allegorical twist. Somewhere vaguely Germanic, or possibly in eastern European, is the small town of Hemmersmoor. These people live a simple, happy life. There are still stores on the main street – bakeries, hardware stores…
REVIEW: MONSTER by Dave Zeltserman
I think the original Frankenstein is a brilliant work of literature. Nearly 200 years later and it still causes nightmares and engenders philosophical discussions, not to mention dozens of films. And it inspires “revisionist” works such as this. Monster is from the first-person perspective of the “creature”, Dr. Victor Frankstein’s monster. The inner thoughts (the…