In Sickness by L.L. Soares and Laura Cooney

In Sickness
by L.L. Soares and Laura Cooney

Published: 2010
Publisher: Skullvines Press
Genre: Horror, Short Stories
Paperback: 196 pages
Rating: 4

Description from the publisher:
Plumbing the depths of Hell. Together.

Welcome to the dark worlds of Laura Cooney and L. L. Soares, two writers of dark fiction who also happen to be husband and wife. Let them be your guides for an excursion through the uncharted regions of the horrific and the surreal.

Here are just some of the strange sights you’ll see along the way:

• A ghost girl takes her living playmate on an eerie hunt for buried treasure.

• On Halloween night, a college student finds a little black dress that’s more than just a fashion accessory.

• A sasquatch hides in the rhododendrons, waiting for the woman he loves.

• A group of super-smart monkeys are in the mood to peel a meal, but it ain’t bananas they’re craving.

• A husband and wife, bound together in a web of tragic secrets, are haunted by strange, pig-faced children.

My two-bits:
In-a-word(s): rapport
This is a cool collection of horror that was put together well. Loved how the stories all flowed through to the last story which ends with a bang.

Each story leaves you with a shiver or a squirm and thinking about relationships.

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* review copy courtesy of publisher

* if you haven't already, check out guest post created for October Trix-n-Treatz by by L.L. Soares, CONTACT ROOM - I.VELVET (starring... me!) which features Dr. Willard Raymond from the story, "Mating Room" in the collection - In Sickness

* part of October Trix-n-Treatz

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Want my copy?

Open to all.

Offer ends: December 31, 2010

TO DO:
Visit LL's site, Cinema Knife Fight and tell me the name of a movie that piqued your interest.

AND leave your email (if i don't already have it) in comments
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Creepy Claus

To continue with the Ho hO Horrific Holidays I present to you...

an adaption of Nicolas Was... by Neil Gaiman:

39 Degrees North: Christmas Card 2010 from 39 Degrees North on Vimeo.

Nicholas Was…
Older than sin, and his beard could grow no whiter. He wanted to die.

The dwarfish natives of the Arctic caverns did not speak his language, but conversed in their own, twittering tongue, conducted incomprehensible rituals, when they were not actually working in the factories.

Once very year they forced him, sobbing & protesting, into Endless Night. During the journey he would stand near every child in the world, leave one of the dwarves’ invisible gifts by its bedside. The children slept, frozen into time.

He envied Prometheus and Loki, Sisyphus and Judas. His punishment was harsher.

Ho.

Ho.

Ho.

Listen to Neil read his poem.

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* first spotted this at Fiction State of Mind

Giveaway: Dueling Novella Series Volume 1

Dueling Novella Series Volume 1:
Orpheus and the Pearl by Kim Paffenroth
and Nevermore by David Dunwoody

Descriptions from the publisher:

Orpheus and the Pearl
by Kim Paffenroth

In 1920 Massachusetts, Dr. Catherine MacGuire is mysteriously called to the home of the famous Dr. Wallston, to assist with some medical emergency that defies even his skill. The life-threatening problems she finds there have less to do with broken bodies than with warped souls, and it will take all her dedication as a healer to fix them.

Nevermore
by David Dunwoody

Malcolm Witt died in his sleep at 11:07 PM. Four minutes later, his body rose and walked from the room. Malcolm watched it happen. And so begins 48 hours of a life-after-death struggle to save his friends, forgive his love, and put himself to rest, body and soul.

Excerpts available.

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Open to all.

Offer ends: December 31, 2010

TO DO:
In comments, let me know scary or thriller book on your WANT list

AND leave your email too.
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Apple Head Dolly by Scott Nicholson

Appalachian Winter Hauntings:
Weird Tales from the Mountains
edited by Michael Knost and Mark Justice

Horror fans... Dont'cha just love that cover?

I haven't had a chance to procure this gem of a book yet, so you'll hear more about this book later.

But I when requested an excerpt, I managed to get a review copy of Scott Nicholson's short story piece instead. Awesome, eh!
Thanks Scott!


Apple Head Dolly
by Scott Nicholson
Genre: Holiday, Horror, Short Story
Rating: 5

My two-bits:
In-a-word(s): shiver
The story starts out innocent enough. Kids and christmas. Oh what christmas can do to kids. eeek!

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* image source apple head dolls

Ho HO Horrific Holidays

Calvin and Hobbes officially opens my Ho HO Horrific Holidays 2-day event. Stay tuned for some horror-related things I have to share...













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* comics set was sent via email from friend, RJ