Geek Poems

by Charlee Jacob

An all new collection from the reigning queen of disturbing, beautifully brutal, literary horror. Multiple Bram Stoker Award finalist, Charlee Jacob, delivers a book packed with some of her finiest short story and novella work:

• FRIGID: Frost lovers needed and fulfilled the needs of frost people. But what were those needs?

• YEAH, YEAH, DOG GONE SOUTH: The old Gods were returning, down from the sky or out of the mud?

• TALES FROM A GRAY WOMB: The otherworld crone wanted the adoption agency to return her baby---and she wouldn't accept substitutions.

• ROOM: The woman who came to see the room-to-rent needed to move NOW!

• 13 HOURS SPENT STALKING EURYDICE: Orpheus went to Hell itself to save his lost bride...couldn't she move a little faster?

• LOCKED INSIDE THE BUZZWORD BOX: Her body had always been a prison within a prison, yet her mind freed itself to wander the madness.

• AND WHERE THY FOOTSTEP GLEAMS: He couldn't think or speak clearly, yet the shadow women knew why they wanted him.

• GEEK POEMS: Lovers reunite to discover their connection with the flavor of cherries.

264 pages, Kindle Edition

First published July 1, 2006

About the author

Charlee Jacob has been a digger for dinosaur bones, a seller of designer rags, and a cook - to mention only a few things. With more than 950 publishing credits, Charlee has been writing dark poetry and prose for more than 25 years. Some of her recent publishing events include the novel STILL (Necro), the poetry collection HERESY (Necro), and the novel DARK MOODS. She is a three-time Bram Stoker Award winner, two of those awards for her novel DREAD IN THE BEAST and the poetry collection SINEATER; the third award for collaborative poetry collection, VECTORS, with Marge Simon. Permanently disabled, she has begun to paint as one of her forms of phsycial therapy. She lives in Irving, Texas with her husband Jim and a plethora of felines.

Courtesy: http://www.williamcookwriter.com

Reviews

[Brian Mcclain · Rating 4 out of 5]

Dense and literary and brutal. Some stories went on a little long for me though. Title story was pretty great at the end.

[BeerDiablo · Rating 3 out of 5]

A collection of short stories that is a bit more suspensful than horror compared to the author's usual work.

I found some of the stories to be experiments with style, bizarro for one.

The best story, Geek Poems, has Jacob's fine touches of prose and depth of research coupled with a deviant imagination that somehow ties in cherries...