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Even in the Grave

By James Chambers & Carol Gyzander &
Even in the Grave by James Chambers & Carol Gyzander &  digital book - Fable

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"In death - no! even in the grave all is not lost." -Edgar Allan Poe

Wandering souls! Restless spirits! The vengeful dead! Those who die with unfinished business haunt the living and make their presence known from the world beyond: 

  • A scientist's invention opens a window onto a terrible afterlife.
  • A New York City apartment holds the secrets of the dead.
  • A grandmother sends text messages from the grave.
  • A samurai returns to his devastated home for a final showdown with his past.
  • A forgotten TV game show haunts a man with a dark secret.
  • A tapping from behind classroom walls leads to a horrible discovery.
  • The specter of a prehistoric beast returns to a modern-day ranch.
  • And the one seeing eye knows all-including what you did.

Haunted from the other side, these stories roam from modern cities to the shadowed moors to feudal Japan to the jungles of Central America, each providing a spine-chilling glimpse into the shadows not even death can restrain. 

Do you dare open these pages and peer into the darkness they reveal?

Stories by Marc Abbott, Meghan Arcuri, Oliver Baer, Alp Beck, Allan Burd, John P. Collins, Randee Dawn, Trevor Firetog, Caroline Flarity, Patrick Freivald, Teel James Glenn, Amy Grech, April Grey, Jonathan Lees, Gordon Linzner, Robert Masterson, Robert Ottone, Rick Poldark, Lou Rera, and Steven Van Patten.

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3.5
“In a Nutshell: An anthology of horror stories, spanning multiple time periods, places, and creatures. Quite a mixed batch. "In death - No! Even in the grave, all is not lost." - Edgar Allan Poe This collection of twenty stories begins with the above quote and an editor’s note, the latter of which raised my expectations quite high. Why? Because it made clear that the authors had been given only one condition: no Scooby Doo endings. The ghosts had to be actual ghosts and not humans in white sheets. Other than this, anything was okay. It is this free-spirited approach that results in the biggest plus point of the collection: the variety. The stories cover many time periods and locations, and include ghosts of various kinds, ranging from kind-hearted to funny to the more common spooky. At the same time, the variety also proves to work against the anthology. Though the writing is good in most of the tales, they don’t deliver the creeps. I admit that this requirement will be highly dependent on the reader’s expectation from a horror anthology. When I pick up horror, I expect nail-biting situations, and underlying atmosphere of suspense, and a steady buildup to a spectacular finish. Most of the stories did not meet this expectation. And as all my friends here know, I have declared myself to be a scaredy-cat more than once. So if I can read a horror collection without getting a single nightmare, the collection definitely doesn't work. Of the twenty stories, the only ones that stood out to me were:”
“I love a good anthology. There’s always something for everyone and even if you don’t like all the stories, you’re pretty much guaranteed to like at least one or two. Which can honestly be worth it, depending on the story of course. While I’m usually not a fan of ghost stories, the descriptions of some of these stories definitely piqued my interest. My favorites were (in no particular order): What’s your secret? by Trevor Firetog Taps by Patrick Freivald The Final Experiment of Eugene Appleton by Allan Burd Rawhide Rex by Rick Poldark Overall 3.5. I will definitely be looking up more from these authors. Thank you to NetGalley, eSpec Books and NeoParadoxa for the eARC.”

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