Dear Readers:
Tap into your greatest fears! Today's BOOK OF THE DAY, "Fleeting Chills: Weird, Creepy, Short & Scary Horror Stories" is just in time for the Halloween and Fall. The author, Joseph C. Gioconda provides an unique perspective to an otherwise scary world. I highly recommend this book for this time of the year. Maybe, start a tradition, and give this book out to parents as they bring their children trick or treating that way they can go home and share the stories. Take a look at the book below.
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- A jealous teenager lures his rival into a tomb.
- A five-year old child speaks in a voice beyond his years.
- A therapist tells his patient to jump at every opportunity.
- Trapped in an isolated funeral home, a man must get through the long night.
- A spirit desperately wants to wed a living woman and refuses to take no for an answer.
- Three boys on a road trip get lost...forever.
- Some musicians really put their heart and soul into their work.
- Amanda introduces her boyfriend to the person living inside her.
- Selling a human skull shouldn't be difficult. Until a psychic gets involved.
- Two sons see an apparition of their father...from thirty years in the future.
- Near death experiences aren't all beautiful...
- An eccentric inventor seeks patents on some novel and disturbing devices.
- Christmas should be a time of joy, but when a man goes missing, his family tries to celebrate without him.
- Buying a mysterious box on the DarkWeb leads a man down a rabbit hole of murder.
- Confessing his sins to a priest, a man describes having a dark power.
- A woman plans elaborate revenge on her cheating lover, only to find the tables turned.
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Product Details
- Publisher : Newtown IP Holdings LLC (September 12, 2021)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 184 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1737286076
- ISBN-13 : 978-1737286073
- Item Weight : 9 ounces
- Dimensions : 6 x 0.42 x 9 inches
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Review
"Dark, disturbing, and sharp-edged... A thoroughly gripping collection." -- Prairies Book Review
Joseph C. Gioconda along with Grace Elizabeth, Amy Yun Yu, Isabel Rincón, Petar Vrbich, and others delves into the dark, brutal world of death and mystery in his grim latest, a collection of short stories. Gioconda's stories, which form the major part of the collection, feature ordinary characters and their extraordinary circumstances, interweaving darkness and death with accounts of heartbreak, murder, longing, and uncertainty ("Convertible," "Teeth," "Identity," and "Confession").
The authors adeptly tap into the characters' minds, bringing out their deepest emotions of shock, insecurities, fear, and rage. Longing, uncertainty, and disquiet all play a role. "Bedroom" is an unsettling story of a young boy's encounters with dead souls. Heartbreaking and devastating, "Lured," narrates the tale of an unfortunate young family. Many of the stories in this collection are not outright scary, but the situations and the sentences that describe the characters' interactions are dismal and disconcerting. The accompanied illustrations are impressive. With its diverse range of stories, including many chillers and a few dark human dramas, this page-turner will equally please the readers of dark fiction and horror aficionados.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Joseph C. Gioconda spent years as a Catholic seminarian, which preceded his further career development in the secular world. He earned his law degree from the prestigious Yale Law School and is now a trial lawyer. He is a member of the Historical Novel Society.
