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Monsters and ghosts, madness and murder, fear and suspense - this second volume in the 3VIL series features an all-new trilogy of original, spine-tingling horror stories which cover the entire spectrum of darkest evil:
1. A distraught mother cannot understand her young daughter’s odd behavior. Are her disturbing tales simply born from her precocious imagination, or does she speak the truth about a dark and mysterious underworld?
2. A depressed man retreats to his family’s cabin for some loneliness in the middle of nowhere. Will he enjoy the company of the odd creature which stalks him from the forest?
3. You meet a stranger at a party who warns you that his next words will curse you with a horrible nightmare. You know this odd fellow is bluffing, but do you want to hear what he has to say?
Each story is crafted with punishing intensity and merciless brutality. Few readers will survive the experience unscathed.
1. A distraught mother cannot understand her young daughter’s odd behavior. Are her disturbing tales simply born from her precocious imagination, or does she speak the truth about a dark and mysterious underworld?
2. A depressed man retreats to his family’s cabin for some loneliness in the middle of nowhere. Will he enjoy the company of the odd creature which stalks him from the forest?
3. You meet a stranger at a party who warns you that his next words will curse you with a horrible nightmare. You know this odd fellow is bluffing, but do you want to hear what he has to say?
Each story is crafted with punishing intensity and merciless brutality. Few readers will survive the experience unscathed.
132 pages, Kindle Edition
First published March 31, 2015
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About the author
Mike Miller
23 books6 followersMike Miller lives in L.A. with his daughters and is a graduate of UC Berkeley and WGU. He has written numerous short stories, comics, screenplays and novels in all genres, such as "The Yeti," "Promoted," "Garrison Rex," and the "3VIL" series. He has also overseen the subtitling and translation for hundreds of films, video games and television shows like "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy, "Seinfeld," "Madden," "Kung Fu Hustle," and "The Simpsons."
His favorite writers include Kurt Vonnegut, Philip K. Dick, David Mitchell, Matt Groening, the Coen Brothers, Ottessa Moshfegh, Billy Wilder, Dan Simmons and Stanley Kubrick.
His favorite writers include Kurt Vonnegut, Philip K. Dick, David Mitchell, Matt Groening, the Coen Brothers, Ottessa Moshfegh, Billy Wilder, Dan Simmons and Stanley Kubrick.
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October 16, 2015
OMG this book has black pages! White letters on black pages! Totally cool, never seen anything like it. The horror's just as good as volume 1, but now it has super cool black pages that totally impressed my roommate, though my cat didn't care. And great, original horror too.
April 5, 2016
There are two kinds of short stories: bad stories which can’t stretch a small idea into something bigger, or good stories where an abundance of material is finely shrunk into a nifty package. Like much of this author’s other short works, each of these three tales could have been expanded to fill a full-length novel, but instead the pacing is excitedly compacted into riveting one-sitting experiences. I especially appreciate the general style of these works of horror, which all skillfully work off creeping dread and mad macabre instead of cheap shock and excessive gore.
Story 1 - “Little Ghost” – The first story has a tender and tragic side to this story of a dysfunctional family grappling with each other’s madness. This is the least scary of the stories, but perhaps the most disturbing.
Story 2 - "What is in the Woods?" – This is the author’s take on the classic “cabin in the woods” type of story, but features some very unexpected twists in the narrative. It often purposefully plays against the reader’s expectations for this seemingly familiar setting, which results in the most scares in this trilogy.
Story 3 - "The Nightmare You Will Have" – This is my personal favorite of the bunch. Though this could arguably be classified as just a thriller and not horror, this is easily the most cerebral and different story of the batch. Without giving anything away on the plot, this story places YOU as the protagonist, brilliantly constructing a story you get to directly experience through 2nd-person narration. In that regard, this story is like this writer’s other masterpiece “Kill Thy Neighbor,” another cool, suspenseful story where the reader also plays the hero.
This author’s work may not be for all horror aficionados as the works are (relatively) free from violence and gore. While that’s not to say that those moments are not within these stories, they are far more tastefully done than the easy splatterhouse prose that can plague the genre. These stories succeed on cerebral dread and fascinating journeys over cheap tricks and stale clichés.
Story 1 - “Little Ghost” – The first story has a tender and tragic side to this story of a dysfunctional family grappling with each other’s madness. This is the least scary of the stories, but perhaps the most disturbing.
Story 2 - "What is in the Woods?" – This is the author’s take on the classic “cabin in the woods” type of story, but features some very unexpected twists in the narrative. It often purposefully plays against the reader’s expectations for this seemingly familiar setting, which results in the most scares in this trilogy.
Story 3 - "The Nightmare You Will Have" – This is my personal favorite of the bunch. Though this could arguably be classified as just a thriller and not horror, this is easily the most cerebral and different story of the batch. Without giving anything away on the plot, this story places YOU as the protagonist, brilliantly constructing a story you get to directly experience through 2nd-person narration. In that regard, this story is like this writer’s other masterpiece “Kill Thy Neighbor,” another cool, suspenseful story where the reader also plays the hero.
This author’s work may not be for all horror aficionados as the works are (relatively) free from violence and gore. While that’s not to say that those moments are not within these stories, they are far more tastefully done than the easy splatterhouse prose that can plague the genre. These stories succeed on cerebral dread and fascinating journeys over cheap tricks and stale clichés.
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