Marisa's Recurring Nightmares

Name: Marisa's Recurring Nightmares
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ISBN: 9798686380226

✍️ J M Van Horn

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🏛 Independently Published 📅 2020 🌐 English 📔 Paperback ISBN: 9798686380226

📝 Description: Marisa's Recurring Nightmares

Welcome to the sixth edition of Recurring Nightmares where eleven horror writers are gifted the names of a real person and told to do whatever they wanted - as long as those unspeakable acts contained a garden statue! In the resulting stories, "Marisa" is troubled, tortured, and terrified. The owner of this name won the right from the Special Raffle Prize of the annual Monster Mash for Literacy Bash, hosted by the Great Lakes Association of Horror Writers. She had the exquisite privilege to experience this unique madness, and the following writers were happy to oblige. Treat yourself to the work of Peggy Christie, R D Doan, Max Carrey, Clark Roberts, Radar DeBoard, David Allen Voyles, Elias Baum, Zachary Finn, Jen Sexton-Riley, Aaron Grierson, and Neil Willoughby. Our Annual Halloween Party benefits the Dominican Literacy Center in Detroit.

💎 Our verdict on Marisa's Recurring Nightmares

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Horror Reads editorial team

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This anthology succeeds by leveraging diversity of voice rather than narrative cohesion. Eleven distinct authors explore the figure of Marisa through varying shades of horror, ensuring that the recurring motif of the garden statue remains fresh and unsettling across different interpretations. The collection caters best to readers who appreciate short-form psychological terror and gothic atmospheres over plot-driven continuity. While the thematic link is strong, the disjointed nature of independent contributions may appeal more to those seeking a varied tasting menu of fear. It effectively utilizes its charitable origin to create a sense of shared, albeit macabre, purpose among its contributors.

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Horror Reads editorial team

This anthology succeeds by leveraging diversity of voice rather than narrative cohesion. Eleven distinct authors explore the figure of Marisa through varying shades of horror, ensuring that the recurring motif of the garden statue remains fresh and unsettling across different interpretations. The collection caters best to readers who appreciate short-form psychological terror and gothic atmospheres over plot-driven continuity. While the thematic link is strong, the disjointed nature of independent contributions may appeal more to those seeking a varied tasting menu of fear. It effectively utilizes its charitable origin to create a sense of shared, albeit macabre, purpose among its contributors.