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Prayers to Broken Stones


A Horror Short Story Collection


Subgenres:

  • Short Stories,
  • Supernatural
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This book is for you if you're into...

  • Horror short stories with wildly inventive, unsettling premises
  • Psychological chills that blur reality and nightmare
  • Twisted takes on war, family, and the supernatural
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From a ghostly Civil War battlefield to a combat theme park in Vietnam, from the omnipotent brain of an autistic boy to a shocking story of psychic vampires, journey into a world of fear and mystery, a chilling twilight zone of the mind.

A woman returns from the dead with disastrous results for the family who loves her.

An old-fashioned barbershop is the site of a medieval ritual of bloody terror.

During a post-apocalyptic Christmas celebration, a messenger from the South brings tidings of great horror.

Includes the following stories: “The River Styx Runs Upstream”, “Eyes I Dare Not Meet in Dreams”, “Vanni Fucci Is Alive and Well and Living in Hell”, “Vexed to Nightmare by a Rocking Cradle”, “Remembering Siri”, “Metastasis”, “The Offering”, “E-Ticket to 'Namland”, “Iverson's Pits”, “Shave and a Haircut, Two Bites”, “The Death of the Centaur”, “Two Minutes and Forty-Five Seconds”, “Carrion Comfort”.

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