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Asylum - 13 Tales of Terror

af Matt Drabble

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From the author of the UK Amazon Horror Chart #4 hit "Gated" comes the Amazon UK & US Horror/Anthology Chart #1 bestseller & also voted #5 on The Horror Novel Review's Top 10 Books of 2013"Matt Drabble, has created thirteen haunting short stories that leave you with a chill..." SAGE ADDERLEY"Matt Drabble is nothing short of a genius when it comes to painting a picture of his characters and the scenes of his stories...I am usually not a big reader, but this novel was sensational! I started reading and couldn't stop..." LITTLE BLOG OF HORROR"Consistently very, very strong and it's got one of the finer wraparound tales you'll spot in recent release... Like Stephen King, or Clive Barker, there's simply no telling what the man will deliver in a package of this nature..." HORROR NOVEL REVIEWS"This was one freaky ride...The stories are surprisingly creative and I would often find myself wishing to read faster to get to the twist at the end of each story..."THE AMBER DIARIES"Matt does it again with these mind blowing shorts about Blackwater Heights. Allow him to stand the hair on the back of your neck on end and keep it that way until the very end of the book..." EKINDLE REVIEWS.COM"Turn down the lights, turn off the TV and cuddle up with these stories tonight - talk about being afraid of the dark!" BOOK FIDELITY"It takes skill to make the short story format work and Matt Drabble has mastered it as he is able to establish both character and story in a matter of pages while conveying a sense of horror and terror" REELYBORED.COMBlackwater Heights is a building with a long dark history, some of it is well known but more is shrouded in myth and legend. None more so than that of its founding father Horace Whisker.Martin Parcell is an ex-journalist with shattered dreams of an author's career. Sidelined through a car crash's injuries, he finds himself forced through governmental austerity measures having to take a custodians position at a private mental health hospital. A writer with undoubted talent, but an author without a story.He begins his new job deep in depression and drowning under waves of his lost dreams. On his first night he meets Jimmy, his elderly supervisor who has spent most of his life within the hospital walls. Jimmy is nearing retirement age and desperate to rest his weary bones. Jimmy offers Martin a way out for both of them, access to the background histories and stories of the hospital's patients. A collection of 13 tales from the darkly disturbed minds of the residents of Blackwater Heights.As the long night unwinds, Martin finds himself deeply troubled as the tales unfold before him and threaten to drag him down into their insanity.… (mere)
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A rarity: a free Kindle book that's not only readable, but entertaining.

Keep an eye on this fella. ( )
  djryan | Oct 7, 2015 |
I’ve read numerous other horror short story books but this one is different than the others I have read. What makes this one different? I actually liked EVERY SINGLE SHORT STORY in this book. Thanks Matt Drabble! ( )
  Rich_Cunningham | Jul 25, 2014 |
Definitely a good read. I loved all the different stories and how it meshed together with the main plot. One of the best collections of short stories I have read. ( )
  mistybattle | Nov 27, 2013 |
Good but average, a night of 13 scary or weird stories and a predictable ending. Liked Gated better than this book but will check out the next one because the writing wasn't bad, it just wasn't that interesting or original. ( )
  Hana.Dooren.Richter | Sep 22, 2013 |
As the name suggests this is a collection of 13 horror short stories. There is also a meta story that ties the different tales together. As with many short story collections the stories are of uneven quality, although all are good, a few really stand out. For me the story about the old actor was simply brilliant. A simple idea that worked very well.

The meta story was a little predicatable, but effective enough as a wrapper for the disparate tales.

The author's writing is good and he manages to to tell each individual story with its own style. I enjoyed reading the collection and would recommend it for horror fans. ( )
  MichaelBrookes | Jul 18, 2013 |
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From the author of the UK Amazon Horror Chart #4 hit "Gated" comes the Amazon UK & US Horror/Anthology Chart #1 bestseller & also voted #5 on The Horror Novel Review's Top 10 Books of 2013"Matt Drabble, has created thirteen haunting short stories that leave you with a chill..." SAGE ADDERLEY"Matt Drabble is nothing short of a genius when it comes to painting a picture of his characters and the scenes of his stories...I am usually not a big reader, but this novel was sensational! I started reading and couldn't stop..." LITTLE BLOG OF HORROR"Consistently very, very strong and it's got one of the finer wraparound tales you'll spot in recent release... Like Stephen King, or Clive Barker, there's simply no telling what the man will deliver in a package of this nature..." HORROR NOVEL REVIEWS"This was one freaky ride...The stories are surprisingly creative and I would often find myself wishing to read faster to get to the twist at the end of each story..."THE AMBER DIARIES"Matt does it again with these mind blowing shorts about Blackwater Heights. Allow him to stand the hair on the back of your neck on end and keep it that way until the very end of the book..." EKINDLE REVIEWS.COM"Turn down the lights, turn off the TV and cuddle up with these stories tonight - talk about being afraid of the dark!" BOOK FIDELITY"It takes skill to make the short story format work and Matt Drabble has mastered it as he is able to establish both character and story in a matter of pages while conveying a sense of horror and terror" REELYBORED.COMBlackwater Heights is a building with a long dark history, some of it is well known but more is shrouded in myth and legend. None more so than that of its founding father Horace Whisker.Martin Parcell is an ex-journalist with shattered dreams of an author's career. Sidelined through a car crash's injuries, he finds himself forced through governmental austerity measures having to take a custodians position at a private mental health hospital. A writer with undoubted talent, but an author without a story.He begins his new job deep in depression and drowning under waves of his lost dreams. On his first night he meets Jimmy, his elderly supervisor who has spent most of his life within the hospital walls. Jimmy is nearing retirement age and desperate to rest his weary bones. Jimmy offers Martin a way out for both of them, access to the background histories and stories of the hospital's patients. A collection of 13 tales from the darkly disturbed minds of the residents of Blackwater Heights.As the long night unwinds, Martin finds himself deeply troubled as the tales unfold before him and threaten to drag him down into their insanity.

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