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    A Quiet Place

    By J.W. Schnarr

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    About this ebook

    A Quiet Place, marks a distinct development in Schnarr's very aggressive style, yet demonstrates a growing subtlety into the psychological over the physical. We journey with him through the hazardous discovery of adolescent female sexuality, the imperatives of affordable labour, watch myth become reality, environments launching attacks, and the dark landscapes of minds battered into breaking. Eleven short stories make up this new collection, and will leave you anything but comfortable.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherFive Rivers Publishing
    Release dateNov 1, 2013
    ISBN9781927400425
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    A Quiet Place
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    J.W. Schnarr

    JW Schnarr is an award-winning journalist originally from Calgary, Alberta. He is the author of the novel Alice & Dorothy and the former publisher of Canadian indie press Northern Frights Publishing. He is the editor/contributor of three anthologies, Shadows of the Emerald City, War of the Worlds: Frontlines, and Timelines: Stories Inspired by H.G. Wells' The Time Machine. A member of the HWA and SF Canada, he can be seen lurking in places such as Best New Zombie Tales Volume II (Books of the Dead Press) where Rue Morgue magazine dubbed his story "Freshest Tale" of the anthology. He's also been spotted in Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine and will be found in Slices of Flesh (Dark Moon Books) alongside the likes of Ramsey Campbell and Jack Ketchum. In 2012 he appeared alongside horror legend Clive Barker in Torn Realities (Post Mortem Press). By day he works as a reporter and photographer for the Claresholm Local Press in Claresholm, Alberta where he makes his home with his awesome teenage daughter. The two of them often argue about who is going to do the dishes.

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    • 2/5
      11 short stories of somewhat bleak psychological nature. I did not really enjoy apart from.... "Green Hills" where a pilot of a small piper cherokee takes a cargo to an unusual destination and "Blue Suede Blues" Clyde no 1 Elvis fan enjoys a short holiday and finally resolves the problem of his nagging wife Shelly....
    • 4/5
      It's impressive to find an author that knows exactly when to end a short story. Far too often, stories drag on past a natural conclusion or end abruptly, leaving me unsatisfied. The supernatural nature of these shorts appeals to me, and the plots are fun and inventive. All-in-all, definitely worth a read.
    • 2/5
      I must admit I'm not the biggest fan of short-stories at the best of times but I felt very much let down by this collection. I found most of these stories lack-lustre and many seemed way too slow from the beginning. The one exception and my favourtite story from the collection was "Green Hills". I also enjoyed "Emily" however I felt it's ending was somewhat predictable.
    • 2/5
      This was an odd collection of short stories. I love the short story format and I think this author did a great job of creating short stories and keeping them short, with good details. That said, I really only was drawn to a couple of them. Sometimes the stories seemed to be "out there" for no other reason than just being "out there." A short story doesn't need gore or shock value to be good.
    • 3/5
      A Quiet PlaceJ.W. SchnarrThis is a collection of horror fiction from Canadian author J.W. Schnarr. I went looking for an overall theme to the collection, and while many of the stories were rooted in Biblical traditions of hell, demons, and not pissing off God, there was a good bit of diversity to the plots. The opening piece, Love Disappears, is the quietest story in the bunch. First love is fleeting, but this beachside tale stayed with me for days. There are werewolves, demons, Elvis impersonators and zombies.Yes this is a book of horror. You’d certainly expect pools of blood and flies and some gruesome imagery, but often the author goes into a level of detail that may be disturbing to some. I was disappointed that some stories used of blood and gore in a way that seemed added for shock value and nothing else. It stuck out. It didn’t fit. I didn’t finish one story because my eyes were rolling so hard I couldn't read. I think nearly every collection of shorts has a dud, and I found mine. But there were gems I couldn't ignore. Two tales were gorged on imagery that fed from the deepest pits of hell into something I had to think hard about to visualize completely. I was disturbed by what I read, and delighted that it raised the hairs on the back of my neck. Gory? Yes, but it was perfectly appropriate and necessary and gorgeous.The last piece of the collection was my favorite and the most disturbing. Opt-in. In the near future, advertising is crafted just for you by the people who know you best. They just want to help you. They want you to be a better person, a better friend, a better human being. The mad men are on the phone and It’s for you.