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Irritating Characters Doing Dumb Things Slowly Author: Thomas Tryon Ned and Beth are the usual, dissatisfied suburbanites with a living-off-the-land fantasy. When chance brings them through the quaint village of Cornwall Comb, they know they have found a new life. One ruled by harvest and the old ways. It is perfect, idyllic, and too good to be true. Enter the Widow Fortune, an agrarian symbol of wisdom. Ned and Beth both form friendships with the superstitious, oddly powerful Widow. She even saves their daughter from her life threatening asthma. Yet there is something sinister in all her knowing, her intimations, and [...]

2022-07-26T08:54:21-07:00March 19th, 2022|Tags: , , , , , |

In the House in the Dark of the Woods

A Dark, Beautiful Fairytale Author: Laird Hunt Once upon a time, long, long ago a woman goes into the dark forest to pick berries for her husband and son only to get lost. Known only by the title of an average old timey wife and mother, “Goody” seeks the road home. Along the way she encounters progressively weirder sights and finally an old woman in a small house who grants her respite, comfort, and bizarre dreams of magic and dark things in the forest.  As Goody works her way through the surreal landscape, puzzling together her quest, an ancient scream at [...]

2022-07-26T08:55:34-07:00March 19th, 2022|Tags: , , , , , , |

My Pretties

A Dark Comedy That Goes Way Too Far Author: Jeff Strand Ken’s wife thinks that he’s an alcoholic – and he lets her. It’s far better that she thinks he is at the bar at night instead of being in that other house, watching them die. Recently, several brunettes have gone missing. One of these women is Gertie’s cousin, and the police don’t seem to be making any progress. They know there is a serial kidnapper, but they don’t know why he is capturing these women or what he is doing to them. Gertie decides to find out for herself, even [...]

2022-07-26T09:00:38-07:00March 13th, 2022|Tags: , , , , , |
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