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The Unraveling: A Collection of Short Horror Stories
It starts with a single thread. Something strange you catch in the corner of your eye. Something following you in the shadows. Things that once slept are awakening. No one else sees them. No one believes. But once it all unravels, everyone will know. This trip down the trails of madness features short horror suspense stories by Alexander Gordon Smith, Maxwell Alexander Drake, Eric Bishop, McKel Jensen, Tim Keller, Mike Nelson, TJ Tarbet, Gabriel Taylor, Isaac Timm, Chadd VanZanten, and E.B. Wheeler.
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206 pages, Kindle Edition
Published October 20, 2020
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November 10, 2020
Great collection of stories
This was a fun, quick read with some talented writers. You won't be disappointed! For brevity, I'll highlight two of my favorite stories. TJ Target's story "Lurker" was the longest story, but never a boring point. It was intense, start to finish. One of favorite lines in his story was, "He couldn't breathe, as if the tenacious shadows had replaced the very air with their essence."
The other story, "The Last Man" by Gabriel Taylor was an apocalyptic story about a character and their inner thoughts. My favorite lone was, "In war, lots of people pull the trigger, but only a few have blood on their hands."
It still gives me shivers!
This was a fun, quick read with some talented writers. You won't be disappointed! For brevity, I'll highlight two of my favorite stories. TJ Target's story "Lurker" was the longest story, but never a boring point. It was intense, start to finish. One of favorite lines in his story was, "He couldn't breathe, as if the tenacious shadows had replaced the very air with their essence."
The other story, "The Last Man" by Gabriel Taylor was an apocalyptic story about a character and their inner thoughts. My favorite lone was, "In war, lots of people pull the trigger, but only a few have blood on their hands."
It still gives me shivers!
November 17, 2025
Phenomenal cover art but not interesting.
I had my hopes for this, but it wasn't as good as I expected it to be, most are single short stories that aren't even scary, some people are just ill or mentally insane experiencing random phenomenal, but this book got me extremely bored. Few moments were interesting but majority made me fall asleep and I couldn't call it Horror because it wasn't scary. I bought this book because I saw my favorite author being credited for participating in one story that being Alexander Gordon Smith who wrote Three Dead Things, which was honestly the only time I actually got scared reading this book and he did it so well. But unfortunately I couldn't say it for the rest of the stories.
If you enjoyed these stories I'm happy for you and I'm glad you enjoyed them but I couldn't and they were not within my interest. I see some other people enjoyed it and I'm happy that they found joy in this but unfortunately this wasn't for me. I still hope people will read it and give themselves a try since its worth testing. Not bad but after the 2nd story it got extremely down the hill fast.
I had my hopes for this, but it wasn't as good as I expected it to be, most are single short stories that aren't even scary, some people are just ill or mentally insane experiencing random phenomenal, but this book got me extremely bored. Few moments were interesting but majority made me fall asleep and I couldn't call it Horror because it wasn't scary. I bought this book because I saw my favorite author being credited for participating in one story that being Alexander Gordon Smith who wrote Three Dead Things, which was honestly the only time I actually got scared reading this book and he did it so well. But unfortunately I couldn't say it for the rest of the stories.
If you enjoyed these stories I'm happy for you and I'm glad you enjoyed them but I couldn't and they were not within my interest. I see some other people enjoyed it and I'm happy that they found joy in this but unfortunately this wasn't for me. I still hope people will read it and give themselves a try since its worth testing. Not bad but after the 2nd story it got extremely down the hill fast.
October 22, 2020
A range of monster horror/suspense stories from mildly spooky to pretty intense. Some stories would probably be PG, while the most intense ones would be a hard PG-13 for language, violence, and horror-ness.
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