Staring Into Darkness C L Clark 9781534670143 Books
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Dark and instantly compelling tales you won’t be able to put down. What are you afraid of? You might just find it here in this book. Come, take a walk with me. This won't be an easy journey and it might even hurt, but you need to see what's at the end. Take my hand, I'll lead you, but be warned, the path is dark and these stories have teeth. On this dark and eerie trip through a forest of nightmare fears, you can't stop the delightfully diabolical stories that transform the everyday into the horrific. 13 items for your reading pleasure that take things as simple and banal as a yard sale find, two brothers enjoying a beer together, and even a family dinner on Thanksgiving and drag them straight through hell. Hold on tight, keep your eyes open, and try not to scream . . . it makes them more hungry. From the award winning author of Macabre Menagerie comes another group of disturbing stories you won't be able to put down!
Staring Into Darkness C L Clark 9781534670143 Books
I am a big fan of short stories, especially the ones that are well written but weird with little twists thrown in occasionally. This is the second short collection I have read from C. L. Clark.and I have to say every single story has covered all the bases. Staring Into Darkness was really good but I thought Macabre Menagerie was a little better so I guess this would be the second best collection I have read in a while. The Story Told in Parts was interestingly odd, not that there is anything wrong with that.So, in my humble opinion, this book is not going to make you run screaming into the streets or hide under the bed but these are good, fun, stories written by someone who seems to care about what they are doing instead of just trying to make a quick buck.
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Staring Into Darkness C L Clark 9781534670143 Books Reviews
This is divided into six parts and all of the short stories are dark in nature. 'She and He and What Must Be' are the categories.
From a collector of baseball cards at a yard sale to a Thanksgiving dinner, the reader is transported to some dark places. They are well written and all have a definite 'end' to them.
The one that grabbed my attention the most was Andrew with the spider. Lots of imagination in this one and I thought Andrew's naming the spider had a nice ring to it! LOL! I kept imagining being in Andrew's place.
Highly recommended. Remember that what goes around, comes back around and has the propensity to hit one in the head - or somewhere!
Please note that I obtained this through the Unlimited Program.
When it comes to books, a three-star rating is not critical. Rather, it is a book I find okay; nothing bad noted, but also nothing that really grabbed my attention. This is a compilation of shorts and I found many to be pretty obvious. I was neither scared nor intrigued. Many of them would make fun scenes in a larger story.
I did find the actual writing style pretty darn good. I didn't notice any glaring editing errors. I have read a full story, Opening the Veil, by this author previously. Her style was exactly why I opted to check out this compilation. Note - I'm not big on shorts. You may find this book quite fun.
Author provided ARC download. 3.3/5 Stars
NOTE The author graciously gave me a copy of this book and asked me to write a review.
I firmly believe that the shorter a piece of fiction is, the more difficult it is to write successfully. Longer works allow the author more time to develop character, establish mood, and create plot complexities, and, if the author has a weak chapter here or there, there's plenty of time to recover. The short story, and especially the types of shorter stories that C.L. Clark has written in her new collection, "Staring into Darkness," don't allow much room for error, as I discovered. It's not a bad collection, but a few of the stories miss the mark, and the overall result is somewhat of a mixed bag.
Fittingly for a collection of horror tales, "Staring Into Darkness" contains 13 stories, although one of them is actually split into seven sections, each a page or two long, in separate locations in the book, forming a sort of serial. Most of the stories are under ten pages long, and a few qualify as short short, or flash fiction. The storylines vary considerably, although they all could more or less be classified as horror fiction. Some have supernatural elements, while others involve horribly depraved individuals, and a couple just involve some rather shocking things that happen to rather ordinary people.
The best story in the collection fits into that latter category. In “The Visitor,” one of the longest stories in “Staring Into Darkness,” a hospitalized man wearing a full body cast stares helplessly as a very large and nasty looking spider keeps making its way closer to him. It’s a simple story, but Clark is able to get inside the poor victim’s head and let the reader experience his growing panic. A similar story, at least in terms of structure, is “Side Effects,” a deliciously gruesome tale about what happens when a woman ignores a warning label about mixing her new medication with alcohol. Another good story is “Some Things You Keep,” which seems like it could have come from a 50’s pulp mystery anthology. A young boy whose mother will be moving away with him in a few days decides to go looking in the basement among all the carefully boxed up items for possible birthday presents. Naturally, he doesn’t find any presents, but what he does find is quite a surprise. This story features perhaps the best ending in the entire book.
Almost all the stories in the collection share certain strengths. Author Clark is quite good at establishing mood and character with some very descriptive and imaginative writing, and when the story is long enough to allow her to do so, as in “The Visitor,” the results are genuinely creepy. Unfortunately, some of the stories are just too short to be fully effective. As a result, attempts at twist endings don’t always work. A couple of the stories simply don’t work at all, like one about twin brothers with a supposedly shocking secret, a story that, instead of scaring winds up being both incredibly silly and internally illogical. One of the weaker efforts in the collection is the multi-part story. While it represents a novel concept in this type of collection to split a story in this fashion, the eventual payoff isn’t worth the wait, and the effect is like listening to a stand-up comic spend five minutes setting up a joke with a very weak punch line. Further, it proves to be one of three stories in the collection that are all essentially variations on the same them, one that becomes less effective with each repetition.
Overall, “Staring into Darkness” is an entertaining collection of stories that horror fans who don’t mind some rather gruesome content will enjoy. However, about one-third of the stories are duds or disappointments in one way or another. Fortunately, there are enough good stories in the collection to allow readers to move on quickly to something else that could well be genuinely unsettling. And, after reading one of the better stories, you won’t want to be doing any staring into darkness of your own, because something just might be staring back.
These stories are not graphic per se (that is not too bloody), rather on the restrained and cunning side as if such (often depraved) activities are at least reasonably normal -- not every day normal, of course, but not so abnormal either or so they are meant to appear. Still, they more than sniff of the dark. Your horror need will be fulfilled.
These are chilling, creepy, engrossing tales with a touch of surprise and humor, humor at least to my (twisted) mind. The people who inhabit these stories are almost recognizable. (Perhaps I have been associating with the wrong folks.) You may not be a fan of horror, but I'll bet you will like these strange, ghoulish, grisly stories. To some, they may even satisfy their lust for the macabre.
Oh, if you are out late at night after reading these tales don't look back. You never know what may be lurking in the darkness. However, to get their full impact read them on a dark night in a cemetery by flashlight. If there is an owl mournfully hooting, the effect is even better. (Can owls hoot mournfully?)
In their dark way, very enjoyable, well-written stories. Reviewed by the author of The Children's Story, About Good and Evil.
PS There is a picture of the author on the book's page. One wonders how the woman with the genteel look could uncork these stories. Hmm.
I am a big fan of short stories, especially the ones that are well written but weird with little twists thrown in occasionally. This is the second short collection I have read from C. L. Clark.and I have to say every single story has covered all the bases. Staring Into Darkness was really good but I thought Macabre Menagerie was a little better so I guess this would be the second best collection I have read in a while. The Story Told in Parts was interestingly odd, not that there is anything wrong with that.
So, in my humble opinion, this book is not going to make you run screaming into the streets or hide under the bed but these are good, fun, stories written by someone who seems to care about what they are doing instead of just trying to make a quick buck.
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