Odd Playthings

by Patrick Winters (Editor), Axel Kohagen, Danielle Davis

It’s playtime!Open up Black Ink Fiction’s toy-chest of terror and see what oddities lay inside. We have dolls, action figures, puzzles, teddy bears and so much more. But these toys don’t play well with others...Featuring sixteen stories of peculiar plastic, supernatural stuffing, and truly killer collections, including works by the following KohagenDanielle DavisDawn DeBraalIan SputnikLamont A. TurnerLynne PhillipsNat WhistonPatrick WintersRadar DeboardRenata PavreyScott McGregorTim Mendees

180 pages, Kindle Edition

Published June 14, 2022

Reviews

[Grace · Rating 2 out of 5]

Overall Rating: 2.1

Intone & Inscribe- Tim Mendes (5 stars)
Monkey On His Back- Lamont A. Turner (DNF) - Used the R Word, my most hated word, so I immediately DNF’d.
Guarded- Patrick Winters (5 stars) - This was actually really sweet and definitely my fav in the whole collection.
Bommai Blues- Renata Pavrey (3 stars)
The Puzzle Box- Lynne Phillips (2 stars) - The Idea was 5 stars, the execution was not.
The Ball- Lamont A. Turner (1 stars) - If I knew this was the same author as the one that used the R word I wouldn’t have read it, It sucked anyway.
Stuffing- Axel Kohagen (1 stars)
Beating Dolls- Radar Deboard (2 stars)
Star man The Invincible- Scott McGregor (2 stars)
Giselle- Lynne Phillips (2 stars)
Prophet- Danielle Davis (DNF) - Too Religious, not my thing.
Sunshine- Nat Whiston (2 stars)
Giuseppe, The Toy Maker- Lynne Phillips (2 stars)
To Fight Another Day- Dawn DeBraal (1 stars)
Parturition- Ian Sputnik (3 stars)
Strange Customs- Patrick Winters (4 stars)

[Renata · Rating 5 out of 5]

A unique collection of horror stories that pays homage to the playfulness and innocence of childhood hobbies, while instilling fear in adult readers and collectors. Odd Playthings is a tribute to toys of all kinds – stuffed toys, action figures, plastic and terracotta figurines. From toys believed to be prophets, to curses carried through generations, toys that will protect their owners at any cost, to ones that go out of their way to destroy, quirky puzzles boxes and haunted bobble dolls, dolls that solve murder mysteries and dolls that commit murder – the reader is transported into a land of endearing childhood activities, with a horrific twist that makes us ponder on what would happen if our beloved toys turned rogue.

Carnival prizes, alien toys, wood and clay toy makers, footballs that curse their players, superheroes fighting plastic dinosaurs, serial killers who collect toys and toys who are serial killers – we read about a range of odd playthings from different cultures and customs around the world. The stories are so different from each other, and yet come together beautifully in this distinctive collection from a variety of international writers.