The Keys: Twisted Tales from Auntie's Attic

by Sherin Nicole, Drew Bittner, Leon Cooper

You have unlocked the world of Auntie’s Attic and a peculiar set of keys.“Well Kept Storage For Needs Big And Small”The slogan seems benign. The circumstances, not so much. You’ve received one of the keys. White as bleached bone and slick as lies, your key unlocks a storage room. Inside you’ll find an object that could lead you anywhere, but wherever you go, you cannot return.

267 pages, Kindle Edition

Published October 22, 2023

Reviews

[Cindy Pieszcynski · Rating 5 out of 5]

Reads a lot like different Twilight Zone episodes with a common thread tying the stories together … a storage facility dubbed Auntie’s Attic. The fact that the stories were written by 4 different authors is interesting but it doesn’t distract from the theme or make the book “choppy.” In fact the underlying intermittent newspaper articles about another tie to Auntie’s Attic are woven so well in between the chapters adding another layer to this mystery. I do love the stories written by Leon Cooper and Drew Bittner a bit more with their ability to build the tension and develop characters in only a few pages, but all of the individual stories draw in the reader and all 4 authors are very adept at storytelling. And for me on a personal level, the group’s tributes to Leon at the end of the book makes the read even more worthwhile (not gonna lie here, I teared up). If you love fantasy mixed with thriller this anthology is for you.