Seven tales of dread, of wicked individuals, sinister entities, and strange happenings.Tales unsuitable for children, the fainthearted, and oversensitive, emotional types.Tales to make you scared and depressed.“THE MAGIC OF MR. AND MRS. CRUFF” While little Lucy’s mommy and daddy fight and throw stuff at each other, she hides in her room and talks to friendly shadow people, who give her all the junk food she wants.“DUWENDE” In exchange for booze and smokes, the mystical, tiny man grants Santiago a wish. When it comes, Santiago isn’t thrilled. He’s disgusted.“SOUL BURN” The powerful new drug is only sold to “special individuals” and Dominic is one of them. He soon experiences the mind-blowing trip, but it totally isn’t rad.“THE ME” Kurt receives terrifying text messages…From himself?“ASLEEP FOR SERENA” The girl of his dreams. The girl he only knows in his dreams. The girl he truly loves. Rob will finally meet her.“NO WAY, MAN” Janet’s daughter is distressed and won’t stop crying. “No way, man,” the three-year-old keeps saying, “no way, man.” What does it mean?“THE GUMMY WORM GIRL” She’s a horridly deformed enigma and she loves gummy worms. She’s about to change a candy store employee’s life.Pulp Dummy Dreadful.Some bastards won’t go to hell soon enough.
What a fab collection of short stories - each one of them as good as the next. I will be looking for more by Mr Gabagat - I want to hear more about the shady character with the top hat. Nice one
This was a good read. This was my first book by this author and I really enjoyed it. I enjoy reading short horror stories and hope he does another collection.
The short stories in this collection were creative, but rather abrupt. If the author would have taken just a little more time to develop them - not necessarily to lengthen them - they would have had more of an impact. They were pretty good, and the mysterious top-hatted figure connecting the stories was a nice touch, even though his/its presence could have been tweaked a bit more as well.