UGLY STORIES: Enter the fevered imagination of Tobin Elliott. Ten awful stories await you. Tales of love, tales of hate, tales of wonder, tales of horror. Ugly stories. About terrible people. Doing horrible things.
TERRIBLE PEOPLE: In this first collection, you'll find some terribly awful people—some friends, some family, some enemies, and some lovers. Some are just starting out, whether its testing their newfound powers, or their newfound hungers, and claiming their first victims. Others you'll find at the end of their long, fruitful career of evil, looking back on their past deeds.
HORRIBLE THINGS: You will, however, find more that just bad beginnings and awful endings. No, you'll find angels and demons, waiting to be awoken, there's beasts that hunt man, and hunters who may find they've stalked the wrong prey. There's even one who manipulates time to bring peace, perhaps to only awaken violence instead.
Welcome to ten of Tobin Elliott's nightmares. We think you're gonna like them. Just don't scream too loud...you'll wake the things best left dreaming.
Ugly Stories About Terrible People Doing Horrible Things: Volume 1 by Tobin Ellitt was published August 6, 2024, by Luminous Aphotica Publishing.
Full disclosure: I've been friends with Tobin online now for several months. Despite that, he knows I'll give him an honest review.
Horror is not my usual genre. Monsters and gore, violence and such - I'm kind of chicken. However, Tobin knows that horror is not just that. Horror comes from the twisted, the depraved, the unexpected, and the unexplained. It makes you question humanity and who the true monsters really are. His stories do just that.
What I especially like about anthology collection like his is that their digestible chunks. You can read a tale, let it sit with you, before moving on to the next.
Another nice touch that he includes are Story Notes at the end of each tale. Gives the reader a little behind the scenes look into what went into the story, etc. As a writer, I like that a lot.
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