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Pulling Teeth
Writing fiction can be like pulling difficult, painful and bloody. In Pulling Teeth, Alan Ryker presents six stories yanked from his mind like rotten molars.
The end of civilization is brought about when written words stop transmitting their original meanings, and begin to transmit a new one.
A man's own soul punishes him for his horrible crimes in a re-imagining of the tale of Eros and Psyche.
A documentary filmmaker is drawn into the world of the homeless living in the Amtrak tunnels under New York City, and discovers something even stranger than his original subject.
Pulling Teeth is an entertaining and disturbing introduction to the work of up-and-coming fiction author Alan Ryker. It contains both new and previously published stories that will challenge your conceptions of horror, literary fiction and the dark spaces in between.
Approximately 90 pages.
The end of civilization is brought about when written words stop transmitting their original meanings, and begin to transmit a new one.
A man's own soul punishes him for his horrible crimes in a re-imagining of the tale of Eros and Psyche.
A documentary filmmaker is drawn into the world of the homeless living in the Amtrak tunnels under New York City, and discovers something even stranger than his original subject.
Pulling Teeth is an entertaining and disturbing introduction to the work of up-and-coming fiction author Alan Ryker. It contains both new and previously published stories that will challenge your conceptions of horror, literary fiction and the dark spaces in between.
Approximately 90 pages.
- GenresHorror
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First published March 21, 2011
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November 6, 2019
Alan Ryker never disappointed me. Same things goes again for this one too. Almost from nowhere I picked up this one for my reading purpose. This actually my 5th read by the author & I liked it so much. before go some details about this one let me copy paste the original given review about this book given below -
*The end of civilization is brought about when written words stop transmitting their original meanings, and begin to transmit a new one.
*A man's own soul punishes him for his horrible crimes in a re-imagining of the tale of Eros and Psyche.
*A documentary filmmaker is drawn into the world of the homeless living in the Amtrak tunnels under New York City, and discovers something even stranger than his original subject.
Among all the six stories from this short fiction book I liked that story named "Psyche's Mark" very much. Actually I just couldn't help myself but finished it in one read. This one really got my nerve...
About the other five yes of course I enjoyed them all. There's disturbing events, fearful moments that you going to endure while reading this one. There's no doubt that I am definitely going to read more work from Alan Ryker. Till then for this one Full 5 from me...
*The end of civilization is brought about when written words stop transmitting their original meanings, and begin to transmit a new one.
*A man's own soul punishes him for his horrible crimes in a re-imagining of the tale of Eros and Psyche.
*A documentary filmmaker is drawn into the world of the homeless living in the Amtrak tunnels under New York City, and discovers something even stranger than his original subject.
Among all the six stories from this short fiction book I liked that story named "Psyche's Mark" very much. Actually I just couldn't help myself but finished it in one read. This one really got my nerve...
About the other five yes of course I enjoyed them all. There's disturbing events, fearful moments that you going to endure while reading this one. There's no doubt that I am definitely going to read more work from Alan Ryker. Till then for this one Full 5 from me...
April 18, 2011
This was a really good collection of short stories; there was one I didn't like, not because it was poorly written, just a touch predictable. The others were all very good. From the cover I assumed this would be somewhat overwrought, gruesome horror, but don't be fooled - this is a subtle and intelligent collection, with a varied range if tone and style. True, some (but not all) of the stories are firmly in the horror genre, but the influences appear to be authors like Thomas Ligotti (particularly in the first story, the great and original 'The New Words').
An author to watch, I think.
An author to watch, I think.
October 3, 2014
The first story is a book nerds worse nightmare... I loved it.
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