Skeletons In The Attic: More Tales From a Mortician

by Michael Gore

With fifteen dark and twisted tales, the mortician is back to terrify you once again. The author of the hit horror anthology Tales From a Mortician has masterfully woven a new collection that will turn your stomach, having you checking under your bed, locking your doors and leaving the lights on as you read. From the discovery of a body in a parents’ attic, to a peek inside the minds of serial killers, cannibals, and werewolves, to gut-wrenching Halloween tricks and even a sweet old lady who kills dozens, Skeletons is sure to terrify, disgust, and enthrall everyone who dares to read it.

274 pages, Kindle Edition

Published May 26, 2018

Reviews

[melissa r potter · Rating 5 out of 5]

Wow

I thought Tales from a Mortician was a great book! This one blew it away! I cringed more reading this book then any movie out right now!

[Brooke-Lynn Chillman · Rating 1 out of 5]

I was a big fan of Tales from a Mortician so when I discovered there was a second book released I couldn’t have been more excited. This book however was absolutely awful, I kept reading it hoping it would get better but the author is clearly perverted and sex obsessed (not in a good way). Every chapter had some sick fetish or disgusting sexual theme and it was disturbing. The book was full of grammar errors as well and spelling mistakes. I’m truly disappointed in how this book turned out, I’ve been saying for the last 2 years that Tales from a Mortician takes the cake as the best gory novel and nothing compares and I was truly hoping to experience that again with this novel, that however was not the case. I genuinely had such a dislike for the themes of this novel that I threw it out as soon as I was done with it and I’m someone who likes to keep books forever. This book was absolute garbage and I truly cannot get over the sexual themes in every single chapter. I wanted horror and gore and to have my skin crawl and be sick to my stomach from what I was reading, all things I got with his first novel. I hope if Micheal Gore releases another book it’ll be more on theme with the original and not be anything like this book.

[Madeline · Rating 5 out of 5]

I am a fan of well-written horror, not horror just to gross out readers or build fan fiction on established classics. Gore has a knack for not only creating original stories but employing real literary merit in his tales. “The Loss” is a well done allegory of a man trapped by social anxiety and the price he must pay to free himself from its chains. “Paralyzed” takes the classic morality tale— can a man who has everything in front of him persevere through tragedy—and spits in its face. And “Ripe,” my favorite, turns the traditional damsel in distress and classic romance stories and turns them on their heads. There is a definite theme to Gore’s collection, one of escaping one’s chosen or assigned life path (it appears in “Time is Everything,” “Wrong Number,” and “Waiting,” along with the ones mentioned above), and who of us HASN’T fantasized about how our lives might be different had we made different choices? Gore’s understanding of this human condition, woven expertly into his creepy and sometimes downright terrifying tales, is the reason I enjoyed this collection so much. He’s a horror writer with a gift. May his muse continue to inspire him.

[Claire · Rating 3 out of 5]

I was given this audiobook for free in exchange for an honest review

3.5. Based on the title and blurb I was expecting more horror / “jump “ and some of these were more sexual. I agree that sexual assault is terrifying but it’s a different ballgame to skeletons and not what I was after.

[Deedra · Rating 4 out of 5]

Audible:These are some twisted sicko stories.Some are pretty good,some I just couldnt finish.J Stempien was a fine narrator.I was given this book by the narrator,author or publisher free for an honest review.

[timj26 · Rating 5 out of 5]

Varying degrees of horror and gore to satisfy everybody
From finding a body in the attic to one of the best trick or treating stories I’ve come across
Well narrated and highly recommended
I received a free review audiobook and voluntarily left this review