Flash O' Lantern: 13+ Stories
Flash O' Lantern contains 13 strange, eerie flash fiction stories about spiders, snakes and shoes, haunted houses, trick-or-treating costumes gone bad, vampires, ghosts, zombies, aliens + more!
13 historical October horror events are also reviewed + author notes. More
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- Category: Fiction » Young adult or teen » Horror
- Published: Oct. 23, 2011
- Words: 13,840
- Language: English
- ISBN: 9781465788092
Todd Russell loves reading and writing atmospheric, scary, thrilling stories. He lives in the small city of Orting, Washington overlooking beautiful, active and deadly, Mount Rainier. Mental Shrillness, a collection of horror twist ending short stories, is his first book.
His debut novel, a psychological thriller / horror story entitled Fresh Flesh was published September 29, 2011. He is working on several other books.
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If you loved sitting around a campfire, as a kid, and spinning quick yarns to scare the 'bejeezus' out of your friends, then you'll really enjoy "Flash O'Lantern: 13+ Stories," a collection of flash fiction tales by horror writer/novelist Todd Russell.
"Flash O'Lantern" presents 13 Flash horror stories interspersed with Russell's own thematically-related commentaries about memorable October events and trivia. The stories deliver quick, light, entertaining reads, and the commentaries provide plenty of great water-cooler conversational grist. Together they make Flash O'Lantern particularly good reading for people on the go. Here are my four favorite flash fiction offerings from the book:
"Brush" is the creepy story of a homeless guy who, let's say, bites off more than he can chew, when he hijacks a kid's Halloween goody bag. ( I think the National Dental Association should purchase reprint rights to this one and distribute them in dental offices nationwide.)
"Graveyard Crazies" offers a fun, yet spooky, take on working the midnight (graveyard) shift in a supermarket. (Great atmospherics, and some well-done tension-relieving humor.)
"Remdee Gate" won me over immediately with the imaginative concept of the gate itself - an altogether new idea that I've never come across before in sci-fi/horror fantasy writing.
And finally, I found "Rachel's Number" to be a quick, but haunting, story.