Insomnia: Stories to Read With the Lights Turned On

by T.L. Bodine

Reading horror stories late at night when you're home alone is never a good idea, but that hasn't stopped you before. One night, clicking through links, you find yourself on a strange site filled with spooky stories. Inspired, you even try writing one of your own. You didn't think anything bad would come of it. You were wrong. Insomnia is a short story collection and a story in its own right, incorporating 15 original short horror stories set into a broader narrative. Read it in order...and read it with the lights turned on.

Genres: Horror

64 pages, Kindle Edition

Published December 27, 2016

About the author

T.L. Bodine writes dark fantasy and horror. She's interested in uncanny, fantastic things, and the way real people with real problems interact with them.

You can also read up-and-coming stories on Wattpad, or check out her Tumblr for writing advice, creepypasta, and more.

When not writing, she can usually be found watching horror movies, playing story-heavy video games, or experimenting in the kitchen.

She lives in New Mexico with her husband, David, and two small dogs.

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Reviews

[Peter · Rating 4 out of 5]

This really is an unusual book of short stories since those stories appear as part of a framework plot. A person more and more 'vanishes' in a site where it publishes stories. You get those stories and the story of its disappearance from every day life, its obsession with that site of stories. The stories were well written, disturbing, psychologically very interesting as we all know people who get weirder and weirder day by day. Is there any way out of being sucked up by Insomnia? Not really. Interesting book with really strange material here. Fully recommended. I really liked the concept and the tales!

[Ken Wallin · Rating 5 out of 5]

There's something about this collection of flash fiction mini-tales that draws you in and holds you in its spell. In a twist on the story-within-a-story idea, the separate stories are all part of a fuller narrative, and with the second-person point of view, the reader is pulled in and becomes part of that story. An interesting and engaging format. Much of the "horror" is implied, rather than stated directly, so this is creepy in a good sort of way. Read this late at night, then make yourself a soothing mug of hot cocoa before going to sleep!

[Kym Anderson · Rating 4 out of 5]

Grabs You

Grabs You and holds you tight! Very interesting read. Your attention won't waver because its got a way to hold you and not let go.....until it's ready...

[Lindsey Simmons · Rating 2 out of 5]

Couldn't Really get i to the book. Didn't end up reading the whole way through . Not like others I've read at all in this genre