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Pareidolia Kindle Edition
- LanguageEnglish
- Publication dateSeptember 9, 2020
- File size422 KB
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- ASIN : B08HSM25TZ
- Publisher : Black Shuck Books
- Accessibility : Learn more
- Publication date : September 9, 2020
- Language : English
- File size : 422 KB
- Simultaneous device usage : Unlimited
- Screen Reader : Supported
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Not Enabled
- Word Wise : Enabled
- Print length : 131 pages
- Page Flip : Enabled
- Best Sellers Rank: #3,211,351 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #8,858 in Horror Short Stories
- #44,953 in Single Authors Short Stories
- #66,539 in Short Stories (Books)
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About the authors
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When I was a kid, I’d borrow my mum’s typewriter and type out my favourite stories, before moving on to write my own featuring the Doctor from Doctor Who, and Sherlock Holmes.
So perhaps it’s no surprise that I now write both science fiction and mystery novels! My SF books include Snakeskins and Hope Island, and the recent short story collection Great Robots of History. My mystery novels include three Sherlock Holmes novels, including The Twelve Thefts of Christmas.
Now, I’m bringing together speculative fiction and mystery stories in my series Jekyll & Hyde: Consulting Detectives. Henry Jekyll and Edward Hyde are the most unique detectives around, given that they share a body and may transform from one to the other at the most awkward moments…
Thanks again for visiting my page! I hope you enjoy the books.
Eliza Chan writes about East Asian mythology, British folklore and reclaiming the dragon lady, but preferably all three at once. She likes to collect folk tales and modernise them with a twist of lemon, pinch of pepper and a kilo of weird.
Eliza's work has been published in The Dark, Podcastle, Fantasy Magazine and The Best of British Fantasy 2019. Her #1 Sunday Times Bestselling debut fantasy novel FATHOMFOLK was published by Orbit in Feb 2024.
Andrew David Barker is an author and filmmaker. Born in Derby, England in 1975, Barker has had pretty much every job going. In his time he has worked as a window fitter, a rail track worker, a factory worker, a carpet salesman, a car cleaner, a delivery driver, a bricklayers' labourer, a shop assistant, and a care worker, among others. None of them stuck.
In the late 90s he played lead guitar in a rock band. They got signed, made a single, played London, thought they were famous, and, subsequently, imploded.
As a filmmaker he wrote and directed the little seen opus, A Reckoning – a last man on earth tale which won acclaim from many who saw it - and has made several award-winning short films, including Laura Living Backwards and Shining Tor. He is also a co-screenwriter on the forthcoming feature, The Wilding, and the writer/director of The House on Lidderman Street.
He is the author of The Electric, Dead Leaves, Winter Freits, The Winterman, and Society Place, and is an Arts Council Grant recipient for his writing.
He now lives in Warwickshire with his wife and daughters, trying to be a grown up.
Dan Howarth is a writer from the North of England. His work has been published both in print and online, most notably at The Other Stories podcast, where his stories have been downloaded over 100,000 times. In April 2021, Dan released his debut short story collection Dark Missives through Northern Republic Press. Dan was shortlisted for a British Fantasy Award in 2019 as an editor and shortlisted for a Northern Debut Award from New Writing North in 2021.
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- Reviewed in the United States on January 21, 2020The theme of this anthology is about perceiving voices or shapes that may or may not exist, and all authors involved have quite unique takes on the idea. That said, though I tend to enjoy ambiguity in my fiction, overall this book didn't completely resonate with me. This is not to say, however, that it won't necessarily resonate with you. In fact, I feel comfortable saying that all of the stories in this book are very well crafted. There aren't any "bad" stories at all. I just don't believe I'm the target reader for the majority of them. I have to be really in the mood for "quiet" horror (I use the term "horror" very loosely here), at least when an antho is full of this style.
There are a few standouts. Daniel Braum delivers a typically engaging story full of what I can confidently now refer to as "Braum-isms." If you're familiar with his work, you'll know what I'm referring to. It's not my favorite of his, but it kept me involved and there's some intriguing, creepy imagery within. Tim Major and Charlotte Bond offer up tales that stuck with me due to their strong characterizations and concepts, and Andrew David Barker's story was just the right amount of depressing.
I don't want to take away from the other authors at all. Again, all well done. I hope this book finds its way into the hands of readers who will appreciate it fully.
- Reviewed in the United States on January 2, 2020Five stars for Daniel Braum's brilliant short story alone. "How to Stay Afloat While Drowning" is a deadly twist on a classic mythology. Character-driven, this story's strong dramatic framework sets it apart from many chilling tales. It's so real because of the setting, the characterizations, the emotions. Great tone, great imagery. This one's a home run.
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- ACSReviewed in the United Kingdom on February 14, 2022
4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent collection
I was actually searching for a different book called 'Pareidolia' (an art monograph on the work of James Jean), when I saw this book and was intrigued by the cover.
I often read anthologies of short stories, generally those of the 'weird' variety — that is, stories which describe strange happenings which may or may not be of supernatural origin. I tend to focus on stories from the Victorian period up to the 1940s – these are usually laden with atmosphere and do not dwell on gory detail – so I wasn't sure if this modern collection would be for me, but I decided to give it a shot.
I wasn't disappointed by this book – the stories ooze atmospere, describing things half-seen, half-dreamt. If you like stories with a mystery and a solution, these aren't for you, but for me, this is a book that won't be going to the charity shop.
- Des LewisReviewed in the United Kingdom on February 10, 2021
4.0 out of 5 stars The shadow flits
An ominously quiet coda to this haunting and overtly pareidoliac book, a 200+ page paperback that sits neatly in the pocket. My brain above ever scries pictures through its lent lens of memory and death. The shadow flits.
The detailed review of this book posted elsewhere under my name is too long or impractical to post here.
Above is one of my observations at the time of the review.