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If You're Human Don't Open the Door
What creatures go bump in the night? With an affinity toward horror and a knack for dreaming up scary monsters, the authors of this eBook want to take readers on several journeys through nightmarish beasts and devilish demons.This collection of short horror stories is the first such collection from author, poet, and publisher Jennifer-Crystal Johnson and N. Jones, a contributing author.Charles' a screenplay prequel to the second story, The Day the Demons Danced, featuring alien creatures who have come to our planet to steal the life essence of humanity and drive people mad.The In a beautiful neighborhood, entire families have abandoned their homes for fear of a creature who feeds on humans to maintain her youth.Mirror Nothing is ever what it seems as daily normalcy mingles with nightmares when a baby is snatched from his mother by a demonic creature who wants to possess his mind.
57 pages, Kindle Edition
First published April 12, 2012
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About the author
Jennifer-Crystal Johnson
42 books125 followersJennifer-Crystal Johnson is originally from Germany, but was raised all over. She has published one novella under her former last name, The Outside Girl: Perception is Reality (Publish America, 2005) and, more recently, a poetry book, Napkin Poetry (Broken Publications, 2010). One of her short stories, The Clinic, has recently been featured on Jack Meets Jill (dot net) and her poetry has appeared in various anthologies including The Lightness of Being (International Library of Poetry, 2000), Theatre of the Mind (Noble House, 2003), Invoking the Muse (Noble House, 2004), and Our 100 Most Famous Poets (Famous Poets Press, 2004). She currently works as a freelance writer and editor for Phati'tude Literary Magazine published by the IAAS. She lives in the Pacific Northwest. Her author web site can be found at www.soulvomit.com and her publishing company is Broken Publications: www.brokenpublications.com.
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January 26, 2013
This was my first read by Jennifer-Crystal Johnson and I am happy to say I really enjoyed it. The book consists of short horror stories featuring monsters most people only see in nightmares. Around the creatures story lines develop with well-written characters and plots that kept me interested. If you love horror and creatures that invade your sleep then this book is for you. I look forward to reading more of her work.
July 15, 2014
"If you're human don't open the door," is a collection of amazing short stories with great narration. The events, characters, the stage, and emotions're showcased with great descriptions. The narrative style adopted by the author in this book is the cutting edge, simple without any usage of difficult adjectives, faster, absorbs the reader into the events' going on.
"If you're human don't open the door"
"If you're a person who seeks good narration please open this book"
"If you're human don't open the door"
"If you're a person who seeks good narration please open this book"
May 17, 2019
If You're Human Don't Open the Door is a collection of 4 stories of well crafted Terror and Horror.
Jennifer-Crystal Johnson (together with N.Jones) has written several chilling tales with a variety of female protagonists who have to quickly run the gamut from terror to horror to terror again. And Jennifer does it well. And, in keeping with the genre, things don't always work out for the hero. The tempo of each story is different as she takes us through;
Frozen moments of horror:
"I found that I, too, was frozen as I watched the creature seem to pulse and shake on top of him." -Emily The Day the Demons Danced
To moments of active Terror:
"I shut the door slowly and locked it. My knees grew weak and it was getting harder to breathe but I had to push onward. I felt faint. I looked to my left to see the washer and dryer there and rested a hand on the washer. My pulse began to increase. I had to move now before it was too late- too late. Wasn't it already too late?"-Emily The Day the Demons Danced
The final story is full of interesting imagery.
"I could feel millions of cuts on my body as I crashed through this curiously contradicting wall of the world, beautiful and painful, brilliance originating from a painful source, and an animal scream permeated the air and resonated throughout my bones, each laceration in my skin humming as if electrified."-Jennifer-Crystal Johnson Mirror Demon
In the short span that these stories allow, Jennifer finds a way to make the reader empathize with each of the main characters so that they find them selves mentally shouting don't open the door. In some cases the reader is taken on a sustained chain of thrill a minute gut wrenching terror. It's a good thing they were short stories.
On the other hand there were only four. I could have managed a few more. Maybe next time.
J.L. Dobias Author of Cripple-Mode: Hot Electric
Jennifer-Crystal Johnson (together with N.Jones) has written several chilling tales with a variety of female protagonists who have to quickly run the gamut from terror to horror to terror again. And Jennifer does it well. And, in keeping with the genre, things don't always work out for the hero. The tempo of each story is different as she takes us through;
Frozen moments of horror:
"I found that I, too, was frozen as I watched the creature seem to pulse and shake on top of him." -Emily The Day the Demons Danced
To moments of active Terror:
"I shut the door slowly and locked it. My knees grew weak and it was getting harder to breathe but I had to push onward. I felt faint. I looked to my left to see the washer and dryer there and rested a hand on the washer. My pulse began to increase. I had to move now before it was too late- too late. Wasn't it already too late?"-Emily The Day the Demons Danced
The final story is full of interesting imagery.
"I could feel millions of cuts on my body as I crashed through this curiously contradicting wall of the world, beautiful and painful, brilliance originating from a painful source, and an animal scream permeated the air and resonated throughout my bones, each laceration in my skin humming as if electrified."-Jennifer-Crystal Johnson Mirror Demon
In the short span that these stories allow, Jennifer finds a way to make the reader empathize with each of the main characters so that they find them selves mentally shouting don't open the door. In some cases the reader is taken on a sustained chain of thrill a minute gut wrenching terror. It's a good thing they were short stories.
On the other hand there were only four. I could have managed a few more. Maybe next time.
J.L. Dobias Author of Cripple-Mode: Hot Electric
March 12, 2018
Genre: adult fiction, short story
The book is a disappointing collection of four short stories. The book was presented as horror, but I did not find them scary. The stories include the usual aliens and demons. A couple of stories were a little creepy. I understand these are short stories, however, this collection seemed to start in the middle of the story line and most ended abruptly.
ARC courtesy of the author and publisher via Reading Deals in exchange for an honest review.
The book is a disappointing collection of four short stories. The book was presented as horror, but I did not find them scary. The stories include the usual aliens and demons. A couple of stories were a little creepy. I understand these are short stories, however, this collection seemed to start in the middle of the story line and most ended abruptly.
ARC courtesy of the author and publisher via Reading Deals in exchange for an honest review.
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