Five Strokes to Midnight

Name: Five Strokes to Midnight
Rating: 2.00 (1 reviews)

by Gary A Braunbeck

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Five Strokes to Midnight

by Gary A Braunbeck

1 rating • 1 review • 1 shelved

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ISBN10 0979502608
ISBN13 9780979502606
Publish Date 1 January 2007
Publish Status Active
Publish Country US
Imprint Haunted Pelican Press

Format Hardcover
Language English

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A hit-or-miss collection of short stories, more on the "miss" side than "hit." Each of the five contributing authors chose a theme and wrote 2-3 stories around it. The only author who had a near-perfect run was Gary Braunbeck, whose three rather touching stories were like nesting dolls, each one starring a character briefly glimpsed in the one before it. On the "miss" side, Deborah Leblanc seems to have a strange obsession with obese-women-as-villains, and I really could have lived a fulfilling life without having read Hank Schwaeble's X-rated hooker-and-embalmed-corpse scene.