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Know Your Enemy
J. Ellington Ashton Press is proud to present this highly charged anthology.
Follow our authors as they eavesdrop into things they maybe shouldn't have heard.
Have you ever overheard a conversation and felt frustrated it had been cut short before hearing its outcome? These stories take the bones of unfinished conversations and give them a life of their own. No ordinary conclusions come from these re-imagined events....
MURDER ON ROSEHILL LANE – ASHLEY ELISE DAVIS, THE QUESTION – ALISON ARMSTRONG,
THE BLEEDIN' HOUSE – GARVAN GILTINAN, DEMONS OF THE NIGHT – NATALIE CARROLL ,
“PLAYTIME"/“302” , MY OTHER HALF – JEFF PREBIS, THE PAPERBOY – NICK ROBERTS,
HAUNT – REBECCA ROWLAND, THE EYES HAVE IT – FREDERICK PANGBOURNE
Follow our authors as they eavesdrop into things they maybe shouldn't have heard.
Have you ever overheard a conversation and felt frustrated it had been cut short before hearing its outcome? These stories take the bones of unfinished conversations and give them a life of their own. No ordinary conclusions come from these re-imagined events....
MURDER ON ROSEHILL LANE – ASHLEY ELISE DAVIS, THE QUESTION – ALISON ARMSTRONG,
THE BLEEDIN' HOUSE – GARVAN GILTINAN, DEMONS OF THE NIGHT – NATALIE CARROLL ,
“PLAYTIME"/“302” , MY OTHER HALF – JEFF PREBIS, THE PAPERBOY – NICK ROBERTS,
HAUNT – REBECCA ROWLAND, THE EYES HAVE IT – FREDERICK PANGBOURNE
190 pages, Paperback
Published May 26, 2021
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April 30, 2021
his is another collection put out by J Ellington Ashton Press and edited by J L Lane and Andrew Bell. I was asked to review both honestly so I figured I’d compare them within this review a little bit too.
Whilst I have enjoyed both collections from this press (the other being Book of Bones which I reviewed earlier in the month) I am tempted to say I am leaning towards liking the first book more. They are both brilliant collections with some fantastic authors but I did find the stories in the other book gripped me more.
Nevertheless I do have some favourites in here and again I did enjoy all the stories, there are none that I skipped or got bored with. I just found these ones more striking;
Qiqirn by Simon Kurt Unsworth is the second book in the collection and something that I found really interesting. I like anything that draws in mythical beings and this didn’t let me down. The imagery in this story is fantastic and it pulls you closer and closer until the author decides you can go.
Froggy Goes A-Courting by Joe X Young was an interesting story to say the least. It’s very surreal in places but what really struck me was the Aspie main character. You don’t often get that so it’s always quite striking to me when it happens. I very much enjoyed the way this story ended.
Mother Moth by J L Lane this one I really liked, it’s a nicely paced story with a very strange ending and it uses phobia to get where it needs to go. I liked the way this one was built up and the imagery it used. It’s easy to imagine yourself being a fly on the wall and the horror of the ending imagery is brilliant.
And finally Watery Grave by Janine Pipe, this story uses very real horror, horror that could happen to anybody on any normal day. I like that. This kind of horror has a habit of creeping up your spine as you pass an area with similar imagery to in the book. The Author also adds an extra closeness by using her own name for the main character. Not afraid to “go there” and place Children into the danger zone this short story has the sort of horror that bites.
I would recommend this collection just as I did the other, but for me, I’d revisit Book of Bones sooner.
Whilst I have enjoyed both collections from this press (the other being Book of Bones which I reviewed earlier in the month) I am tempted to say I am leaning towards liking the first book more. They are both brilliant collections with some fantastic authors but I did find the stories in the other book gripped me more.
Nevertheless I do have some favourites in here and again I did enjoy all the stories, there are none that I skipped or got bored with. I just found these ones more striking;
Qiqirn by Simon Kurt Unsworth is the second book in the collection and something that I found really interesting. I like anything that draws in mythical beings and this didn’t let me down. The imagery in this story is fantastic and it pulls you closer and closer until the author decides you can go.
Froggy Goes A-Courting by Joe X Young was an interesting story to say the least. It’s very surreal in places but what really struck me was the Aspie main character. You don’t often get that so it’s always quite striking to me when it happens. I very much enjoyed the way this story ended.
Mother Moth by J L Lane this one I really liked, it’s a nicely paced story with a very strange ending and it uses phobia to get where it needs to go. I liked the way this one was built up and the imagery it used. It’s easy to imagine yourself being a fly on the wall and the horror of the ending imagery is brilliant.
And finally Watery Grave by Janine Pipe, this story uses very real horror, horror that could happen to anybody on any normal day. I like that. This kind of horror has a habit of creeping up your spine as you pass an area with similar imagery to in the book. The Author also adds an extra closeness by using her own name for the main character. Not afraid to “go there” and place Children into the danger zone this short story has the sort of horror that bites.
I would recommend this collection just as I did the other, but for me, I’d revisit Book of Bones sooner.
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