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Curio
Twenty-one strange, funny, spooky, scary stories, sometimes with ghosts. Written by Laura Ellen Scott and illustrated by Mike Meginnis.
32 pages, ebook
First published January 10, 2011
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February 28, 2012
I heard about "Curio" via JMWW’s wonderful interview with the author, Laura Ellen Scott, in their Winter 2012 issue. The book is a collection of 21 short stories, published by Uncanny Valley Press in January ’11, and available for the cost of a Tweet or Facebook post (re: free) on their website. To put it simply, you should not pass up this offer. "Curio" is one of the best fiction collections I’ve read in some time. Laura Ellen Scott’s writing takes a look below the surface of rural America, both past and present, and should provide a pleasant chill to anyone who longs for the understated ghost stories of authors like M.R. James and Algernon Blackwood.
Amazingly, Scott reveals that all of these stories are based on actual events. Her words conjure haunting images before our eyes: parking lots made of mud, empty fields, the moonless sky, ramshackle cabins. Just these as these stories become as vivid as life in the reader’s mind, they dissipate into vapor. Laura Ellen Scott’s power is in evocative suggestions that should ring true to anyone who has spent time in some of the lonelier places of America.
"Curio" seduces the reader away from the cities and suburbs, to those parts of the country where 24 hour grocery stores are the only sign of life after a certain hour, where mountain men roam the fields in search of…something, where ghosts dive down your laughing throat around the campfire. The entire milieu of this collection spoke to me but Laura Ellen Scott’s prose is poetic and fear-inducing to match. This is a short story collection to be read and read again.
Amazingly, Scott reveals that all of these stories are based on actual events. Her words conjure haunting images before our eyes: parking lots made of mud, empty fields, the moonless sky, ramshackle cabins. Just these as these stories become as vivid as life in the reader’s mind, they dissipate into vapor. Laura Ellen Scott’s power is in evocative suggestions that should ring true to anyone who has spent time in some of the lonelier places of America.
"Curio" seduces the reader away from the cities and suburbs, to those parts of the country where 24 hour grocery stores are the only sign of life after a certain hour, where mountain men roam the fields in search of…something, where ghosts dive down your laughing throat around the campfire. The entire milieu of this collection spoke to me but Laura Ellen Scott’s prose is poetic and fear-inducing to match. This is a short story collection to be read and read again.
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