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Creeper
A Short Horror Story
Carter Lowe is a young businessman in his prime, whose life and sanity is challenged when a masked stranger with a bloody knife appears everywhere he goes.
Carter Lowe is a young businessman in his prime, whose life and sanity is challenged when a masked stranger with a bloody knife appears everywhere he goes.
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First published October 5, 2012
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November 30, 2012
Thank you all for the comments on Smashwords. I have gone back and edited the book quite a bit with these things in mind. Admittedly, "Creeper" was written very quickly just to get my name out there, so please don't judge my other works based on it.
July 15, 2017
Pretty good little story.
Good story with a cool ending. Not bad at all for young author (I mean that in a good way). Looking forward to a great novel someday.
Good story with a cool ending. Not bad at all for young author (I mean that in a good way). Looking forward to a great novel someday.
April 12, 2019
Simple to read and written by a teenager, although by now he’s an adult. More young people and teens should try and publish their work. Obviously this book doesn’t have perfect grammar but it was still very entertaining.
June 5, 2017
Good
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September 7, 2017
A decent short read. Pretty well written with a great main character. The build was perfect for the shocking finale.
January 28, 2018
Quick but captivating
The book captured my interest from the first page. I found it hard to put down.I’d recommend this to the suspense or phenomenon genre lovers.Truly gripping!
The book captured my interest from the first page. I found it hard to put down.I’d recommend this to the suspense or phenomenon genre lovers.Truly gripping!
April 10, 2013
“Creeper, A Short Horror Story” by Bran Glitz begins with a wealthy young man showing early signs of mental instability, or even insanity. His morning newspaper carried a story about a woman who was murdered not far from where he lives.
Throughout the story, and throughout his day, this young man experiences a series of bizarre, frightening hallucinations: he keeps seeing a scary looking man, whom he believes must be the killer. At one point he even saw some kind of wizard – a man in a long robe, carrying a magic wand – walking down the street.
On his drive home he sees the “murderer” frequently, walking or standing, holding a bag with a human-sized ‘something’ in it. Arriving at his home, he sees the “murderer” on his front porch! Really freaking by now, he sneaks around to the back of his house, enters through an unlocked window, and goes to bed. He turns on the television, and the “murderer” appears on it, walking slowly toward him, carrying his bag of body parts!
Then his doorbell rings. Throughout the evening his doorbell rings and rings and rings, eventually tapering off to nothing. I must stop here, or this review will completely spoil the story for you. Suffice it to say, this was one bizarre piece of writing, with an ending that will absolutely take you totally by surprise! Take a few moments and read this short. Just don’t say I didn’t warn you.
Throughout the story, and throughout his day, this young man experiences a series of bizarre, frightening hallucinations: he keeps seeing a scary looking man, whom he believes must be the killer. At one point he even saw some kind of wizard – a man in a long robe, carrying a magic wand – walking down the street.
On his drive home he sees the “murderer” frequently, walking or standing, holding a bag with a human-sized ‘something’ in it. Arriving at his home, he sees the “murderer” on his front porch! Really freaking by now, he sneaks around to the back of his house, enters through an unlocked window, and goes to bed. He turns on the television, and the “murderer” appears on it, walking slowly toward him, carrying his bag of body parts!
Then his doorbell rings. Throughout the evening his doorbell rings and rings and rings, eventually tapering off to nothing. I must stop here, or this review will completely spoil the story for you. Suffice it to say, this was one bizarre piece of writing, with an ending that will absolutely take you totally by surprise! Take a few moments and read this short. Just don’t say I didn’t warn you.
November 4, 2019
It's been stated in other reviews that the author of Creeper is very young. Whilst I would like to take that into account when writing this review, I can only be honest in my opinion and here it is. This is so poorly written that it was clear to me from the very beginning that it was written by a child and/or completely inexperienced writer. The concept behind the story is somewhat imaginatitve and the twist is interesting, but the pacing means that it lacks any real impact. I understand it's a short story but it feels like the story comes to a very abrupt and dramatic end. As I said, he concept is good, and I think with some improvements in the writing (style, structure and grammar) and pacing, it could be a very effective short horror story. Nonetheless, for a child writer, credit must be given where it is due.
November 20, 2012
I’m glad this was a short story, as the only thing I enjoyed about it was the twist at the end. The way the twist was done was fantastic, it really made the story. However, having said that, the unevenness of the writing really let it down.
Some of the sentences just didn’t make sense, and the constant capitalisation of ‘he’ made me think I was reading some kind of religious text. There was also an issue that it read more like a report of an event rather than an actual story.
Having said that, for a quick read, and for free, you could do worse.
Some of the sentences just didn’t make sense, and the constant capitalisation of ‘he’ made me think I was reading some kind of religious text. There was also an issue that it read more like a report of an event rather than an actual story.
Having said that, for a quick read, and for free, you could do worse.
July 11, 2015
Interesting "Twilight Zone-ish" story.
Well written horror story. Has a TZ feel to it,which was pretty clever. I never saw the ending coming!! Good job,Mr. Grant.
Well written horror story. Has a TZ feel to it,which was pretty clever. I never saw the ending coming!! Good job,Mr. Grant.
May 14, 2018
The more I think about it, the more I like it. *3.5 stars *
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