Genre - Horror/Anthology Collection
Year Published - 2017
Published by ShadowWork Publishing
Length - 330 (digital) pages
Written by Multiple Authors
Rating: 4 Skulls
Plot Summary:
Twilight Zone. The Outer Limits. Fringe.
Science without limits. Madness without end.
All proceeds from the purchase of this ebook will be donated to Doctors Without Borders.
This is a warning. What you are about to read violates the boundaries of imagination, in a world where science breeds and breathes without restraint. A world very much like our own.
Within these shadowy corridors you will discover characters seeking retribution, understanding, power, a second chance at life—human stories of undiscovered species, government secrets, the horrors of parenthood, adolescence and bullying, envisioned through a warped lens of megalomania, suffering, and blind hubris. Curious inventors dabble with portals to alternate worlds, overzealous scientists and precocious children toy with living beings, offer medical marvels, and pick away at the thin veil of reality.
You can run. You can look away. But don’t say we didn’t warn you.
Witness our Dark Designs.
Review:
As stated in the summary, this is a "Charity Anthology" - with all of the proceeds going to Doctors Without Borders. This is a good book with a great cause, so purchase your copy now (currently only $4).
This book is edited by both Thomas S Flowers and Duncan Ralston, both of whom not only contribute their own stories, they also both offer their personal thoughts on the "mad science" genre.
This book was immediately a must-read for me, not only because of the genre, but also because it includes stories from Thomas S Flowers, Chad Lutzke, and Ken Preston (three authors who I totally enjoy!).
Rather than break down every individual story (of which there are 16 total), I am just going to tell you my favorites:
The stand-out story, for me, in this collection is, without a doubt, T. N. Kaylor's Death Ray Potato Bake. This story is worth the $4 alone! (I definitely plan on reading more of Kaylor's work!
Other superb stories were Jeffery X Martin's Underneath the Foam, Chad Lutzke's Discerning the Adversary (which is the shortest story in this collection), Ken Preston's Looking After the Parents, and Thomas S Flowers' The Ascension of Henry Porter.
Other enjoyable stories were Daniel Marc Chant's How They Met Themselves, Chad Clark's Through the Slip, G. H. Finn's The Hidden War on Terror, and Duncan Ralston's The Burden.
The other stories are good as well - there isn't a bad one in the bunch - the above we're just my favorites.
Jason
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