Published: Oct. 29, 2010
Words: 11,143 (approximate)
Language: English
ISBN: 9781458023483

Short description

Snippets, sonnets and stories to make you shiver. A morbid and morose collection of tales designed to scare, dismay and leave you wondering. Open the pages into worlds of horror, dark fantasy, and satire, where things creep in shadowy corners, where they like to hear you scream. Once Upon a Dark and Eerie... will show you why you should lock your doors in the dark.

Extended description

Do you like to read stories that make you think, leave you looking at the shadows in dread?
Take a short foray into a world of fantasy, sci-fi and horror and peruse small glimpses into other worlds, amble through slightly longer tales of woe and stop awhile in the heart of terror. There is murder, mayhem, aliens, serial killers, werewolves and fractured fairy tales waiting for you.
You can even take a side trip through the universe of poetry where you will find dark and depressing killers, ghosts and a zombie.

Adult-content rating: This book contains content considered unsuitable for young readers 17 and under, and which may be offensive to some readers of all ages. For more information, see the Support FAQ.

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Once upon a Dark and Eerie
The book trailer for the short fiction collection, Once Upon a Dark and Eerie... Snippets, sonnets and stories to make you shiver. Once Upon a Dark and Eerie... will show you why you should lock your doors in the dark.

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Review by: Angela Yuriko Smith on June 02, 2011 :
Here is a woman who loves words. A.F. Stewart’s dark gem of a book, Once Upon a Dark and Eerie is full of lovely word play. Stewart plays with words like a cat plays with prey, taunting the reader with delicate threats and keeping them held with the invisible, but irresistable, thread of a spider.

The variety of her tales keeps the reader’s interest piqued, each tale is a jewel giving a taste and a tease, leaving readers hungry for more and their imagination running wild.

From disturbing recounts of horror to wry retellings of classic fairy stories, Stewart will hold you entranced. My favorite stories were Invasion and Rendevouz on the Moor. Her imagery is haunting, she gives just enough to start my inner musings and I find myself lost in thought thinking of where Stewart’s words may lead me.

Her unplugged fairy tales spark with acidic wit and her darker stories are crafted with elegance and style, but it is her poetry that really moves me. Tapestries woven with gilded phrases and adorned with shimmering ideas that hang in the air, folded between your thoughts to return to you when the shadows lengthen like echos of whispers.

Once Upon a Dark and Eerie is not a book to devour in one gulp… it is a book to savor. Like wine, the scent must be inhaled and held in the lungs before letting it roll across the senses. I recommend this book as a reading experience not to be missed. Available on Smashwords in a variety of formats, it is a book you will return to whenever you have a craving for… something dark.
(reviewed within a month of purchase)

Review by: Jaleta Clegg on Feb. 01, 2011 :
If you’re expecting a full story, fleshed out and finished with everything neatly wrapped up at the end, this isn’t it. Once Upon a Dark and Eerie is a collection of snippets and teasers, short bits that hint at dark and twisted stories and characters. Some were haunting, others disturbing, a few laugh out loud funny. The book is divided into sections with an overall theme: Dark Musings, Past Echoes, Creatures & Fairy Tales, and Grim Poetry.

I haven’t been a fan of this type of work before. I refused to read it for years. I think I missed out on a lot of great reading, if this book is any indication. My only complaint is that the story snippets left me wanting more, much more. I wanted to see where the characters ended up. The very short writings caught my imagination and teased me with possibilities.

I will definitely be reading more works by A. F. Stewart. For now, go to Smashwords and download at least the free sample. Try this book. You won’t be sorry.
(reviewed long after purchase)

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