Michael Schmicker's Blog - Posts Tagged "suzanne-tyrpak"
A Pen to Kill For
Got an empty evening? I found you a companion.
I just finished Suzanne Tyrpak’s unsettling "Ghost Plane and Other Disturbing Tales." It sucks sustenance from the same throbbing vein of amorphous, human dread opened by Stephen King and Rod Serling. Taut, spare writing packed into 64 pages – each edgy tale a tightly wound spring that releases suddenly, leaving a small scar on your psyche.
“Disturbing” is an apt subtitle. How about a pissed go-go dancer in Jersey, high on Black Beauties and Harvey Wallbangers, who fillets a creepy customer with a kitchen knife? A solitary, graveyard-shift airport drudge with a bucket of paper towels and Lysol who boards the wrong plane. An older employee humiliated by a new boss, musing how easy it is to arrange an accident for the harpie. A homicidal woman in a meditation class – "om mani padme hum" – futilely attempting to drive a him from her thoughts. You get the idea.
Jeroen ten Berge’s creepy cover is a bonus.
I just finished Suzanne Tyrpak’s unsettling "Ghost Plane and Other Disturbing Tales." It sucks sustenance from the same throbbing vein of amorphous, human dread opened by Stephen King and Rod Serling. Taut, spare writing packed into 64 pages – each edgy tale a tightly wound spring that releases suddenly, leaving a small scar on your psyche.
“Disturbing” is an apt subtitle. How about a pissed go-go dancer in Jersey, high on Black Beauties and Harvey Wallbangers, who fillets a creepy customer with a kitchen knife? A solitary, graveyard-shift airport drudge with a bucket of paper towels and Lysol who boards the wrong plane. An older employee humiliated by a new boss, musing how easy it is to arrange an accident for the harpie. A homicidal woman in a meditation class – "om mani padme hum" – futilely attempting to drive a him from her thoughts. You get the idea.
Jeroen ten Berge’s creepy cover is a bonus.
