Season of the Macabre: Collected Stories

by Damien Kelly

• ISBN10: 1909016101
• ISBN13: 9781909016101
• Publish Date: 30 June 2012 (first published 20 March 2012)
• Publish Status: Out of Print
• Out of Print: 18 November 2014
• Publish Country: GB
• Publisher: Clarion Publishing
• Imprint: Monico
• Format: eBook
• Pages: 92
• Language: English

Reviews

[Kim Deister]

Season of the Macabre is a compilation of three previous volumes of short stories by the author, Cold Comfort Child, A Polite Exchange, and The Rare Gift. I am a sucker for good macabre fiction, and this book delivered that. All of the stories had a holiday theme, but definitely not of the "fluffy, happy bunny" variety! One part horror, one part creepy, and one part disturbing made for a fantastic set of short stories. I don't know that I could even pick one as my favorite because they were all equally creepily, wonderfully, disturbingly great stories. What I liked is that the author stepped to the left of center with some of these stories. They had twists and turns that took the story places that isn't usual, which made them even more exciting to read. I also really enjoyed his matter-of-fact style that created some characters that were completely unapologetic for their actions. That just added to the "creepy and disturbing" factor1 Fantastic read!