Dive into the terrifying worlds of L. Marie Wood. These stories range from quiet horror, hinting at the things buried there in your psyche - the thing that will come out to play after dark, and visceral horror that leaves no doubt what lies in a bloody heap in the middle of the floor.
The Unholy Trinity combines L. Marie Wood's horror collections, Caliginy, Phantasma, and Anathema into one frightening volume of quiet, extreme, and dark horror, psychological thrillers, and rousing suspense that will keep you teetering on the edge of your seat.
L. Marie Wood is an award-winning author and screenwriter. She is the recipient of the Golden Stake Award for her novel The Promise Keeper, as well as the Harold L. Brown Award for her screenplay Home Party. Her short story, "The Ever After" is part of the Bram Stoker Award Finalist anthology Sycorax's Daughters. Wood was recognized in The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror, Vol. 15 and as one of the 100+ Black Women in Horror Fiction. Wood holds an MFA in Speculative Fiction from Southern New Hampshire University and serves as the Director of Curricula for the Diverse Writers and Artists of Speculative Fiction (DWASF.org). She is also the Director of the horror track for MultiverseCon.
Marie Wood’s Horror Anthology, The Unholy Trinity: A Collection of 99 Stories is practically Tales From The Crypt in book form. So much so that I expected a wisecracking skeleton puppet to pop up from the pages and start quoting ghoulish puns. Well that didn't happen but The Unholy Trinity carries many of the same great qualities that Crypt does: easy digestible stories of fears brought to life with spine tingling plots, graphic images, and engaging twists. These stories are written to raise that slight chill in the back of the mind, the one that tells you that despite knowing that you are alone in the house while you read this book that maybe you should give that window, or that closet, or the door locks a second look. They remind us that watching horror is a fun and interesting pastime but reading horror lets your imagination fly off into dark and forbidden dimensions that turns your sleep into an unpleasant one.
As Woods says in her afterword, she writes stories that “linger with you long after you’ve put the book down,” and she’s right. I’ll still be thinking about some of these stories a while from now, and glancing periodically over my shoulder...