Freedom of Screech

by Craig Spector, Chet Williamson, Elizabeth Massie

Fifteen stories from living legends, rising stars, venerable masters and surprising newcomers, exploring our troubled past, our turbulent present, and frightening futures yet to come.

Freedom of Screech. It’s not for the faint of heart.

Chet Williamson
Elizabeth Massie
Matt Hayward
Jessica McHugh
Richard Christian Matheson
Jenny Orosel
Jack Ketchum
Georgia R. Buns
Tom Monteleone
Patricia Lee MacComber
David Niall Wilson
Robert Guffey
Joseph Mulak
Michael Picco
Norman Spinrad

251 pages, Kindle Edition

Published August 9, 2019

About the author

Author, screenwriter, and musician Craig Spector developed an interest in the macabre at a very early age: he was severely burned in a tragic household accident when he was only ten months old and did drawings of skeletons and severed heads when he was a little boy. Spector graduated cum laude in 1982 with a B.A. in Professional Music from the Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts and went on to attend the Atlanta College of Art in Atlanta, Georgia. He moved to New York City and published his first novel "The Light At The End" (co-authored with John Skipp) in 1986.

Reviews

[Todd Charlton · Rating 4 out of 5]

Craig Spector; author, musician, and all round good egg, has edited this collection based on surviving the scourge of Political Correctness.
He has assembled authors of past and future greatness to press freedom of speech home to those who would see it end. If writers can't go as far as anyone in their work, all is lost for the rest of us.
The highlights of the collection are; Keeping the Piece, by Elizabeth Massie; The Tree, by David Niall Wilson; Intercepting Aisle 9, by Matt Haywood; Group of Thirty, by Jack Ketchum; Farewell Frankenstein!, by Robert Guffey; Quarantine, by Norman Spinrad; and The Prime Time of Spencer Golding, by Thomas F. Monteleone.
A perfect mix of old and new; Freedom of Screech pushes boundaries, and offends just enough to watch the PC Thugs fall to their knees, the ones dispassionate enough and smart enough to see the error and horrendous trajectory of their ways; to realize that PC thuggery is the classic way to hell paved with good intentions; that it isn't the answer, only a very dangerous solution.

[Clark Young · Rating 4 out of 5]

As with many anthologies, the stories presented here are uneven: some very good, others not so good. My 2 favorites were the first and last stories. Some people may not agree, but that is what anthologies are for, to allow people to find something they like.

One thing I did learn, which saddened me, was that horror writer Jack Ketchum (not his real name but the name used for most if not all of his books) is no longer with us. May he Rest In Peace.

[Darren · Rating 5 out of 5]

TITLE: Freedom of Screech

AUTHOR: Craig Spector editor

GENRE: Horror

PAGES: 251

I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again, I love an anthology. When you get a group of authors writing about a shared idea or world, things get real interesting real fast. In the case of Freedom of Screech the idea is what happens when someone’s freedom of speech is inhibited. The result is, well to be honest, quite terrifying!

In this anthology, you have fifteen tales that range from the past to the present to the near future in which a person’s freedom of speech is in some way inhibited, whether it is actually restricted or perceived to be restricted, these tales will definitely give you something to think about.

The authors that contributed to this anthology are:

Chet Williamson

Elizabeth Massie

Matt Hayward

Jessica McHugh

Richard Christian Matheson

Jenny Orosel

Jack Ketchum

Georgia R. Buns

Tom Monteleone

Patricia Lee MacComber

David Niall Wilson

Robert Guffey

Joseph Mulak

Michael Picco

Norman Spinrad

Whether your politics lean to the left, or the right, or smack down the middle, this anthology will give you something to think about!

5 out of 5 Bookmarks