Author A.A. Garrison has a knack for horror, as this collection of stories attests. Not fitting comfortably in the realm of �psychological� or �intelligent� horror, his brand of the macabre falls into a subtler niche, one that might be considered �darkly radiant.�
Call it �the shining horrific,� if you must have a label.
Included amongst these 23 tales:
Danger and ruin from a �free� gift (�The Briefcase�)
A fearful father�s poisonous need (�Need�)
Insomniac cat-and-mouse in the Appalachian foothills (�Insomnia�)
A social club of the highest stakes (�War�)
The predatory love between a serial killer and his demon (�A Kind of Love�)
An accident victim and his imaginary friend, seeking vengeance (�Him�)
A non-psychotic who finds himself the world�s last hope against �monsters� (�Monsters�)
An eight-year-old with a memory too keen for his own good (�Nothing Bad Has Ever Happened Here�)
A priest led to divine murder in a heathen city (�One of Them�)
A holiday with the darkest past (�Riottaba�)
A man awakes to find himself hung in a strange cage in an even stranger place (�The Gibbet�)
A downward spiral begun by an innocent beer (�Mistake�)
And many more. Ranging from flash fiction to novelettes, from the quiet to the messy, from the everyday to the fantastic, the stories in �The Shining Horrific� cover a diverse literary terrain, sure to please any audience.
Now, come explore that twilight country of the shining horrific ...
