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A loving mother returned from the grave. A vampire fallen prey to her own kind. A young girl who can set the night aflame. These are the whispered stories of the night’s darkest creatures.

A collection of eleven short stories ranging from speculative to paranormal to horror, Whispers combines terrifying monsters with narrative introspection, digging to the roots of your darkest dreams. Told from the perspective of every variety of monster, these stories look for the humanity – or lack there of – in all our favourite creatures.

Zombies, werewolves, ghosts, and other things that never found a name; Whispers finds the creatures hiding in the dark, and drags them into the light.

Contents

A Mother’s Love

Max only came home for the funeral; she never expected to stay. But when her mother returns from the grave to find the daughters she left behind, Max has no other choice. She must keep her family safe.

The Fever

A newborn werewolf’s first transformation can be ecstasy, or it can be agony. For this newborn, tormented by the loss of her creator while still swimming in her memory, it just might be both.

The Motel Room

Since his death, this ghost has been trapped in a motel room. Only when a maid enters the room, and the two lock eyes, does he begin to discover the true power behind his ghostly form.

King of the Forest

A little girl sleeps in the forest, growing dark fruit from her night time thoughts as the tree’s roots twist deeper into her heart. Only the King of the Forest can tear the two apart.

Fall From Glory

An alpha predator in her own mind, this vampire stalks through her city, taking any prey she chooses. When her guard slips, caution replaced by confidence, she will find herself on the opposite end of the chase.

The Drawer

Lost somewhere between real life and a nightmare, a little girl grows up in an old, crumbling bedroom. Although she has always longed for silence, when she is finally left alone in the quiet house, she discovers how horrifying solitude can be.

Pyromaniac

Tristan lives for the nightlife. When a dangerous man attempts to shatter her reverie, she’s forced to teach him a lesson. Not your typical teenager, this girl will set the night on fire.

Whispering Peak

Martha and her brother were born in the Outlands. They have never seen the grand capital, Invictus City. But when their general is taken hostage, Martha and Asher have no choice but to make their way through the monumental steel gates that enclose the city, and bring him home.

Night Terrors

As a child, she dreamt of wolves. Growing into a woman, she left her wolf pack behind, forgetting the dreams that had shaped her so long. Tonight, the wolves will come to take their sister home.

Beggars

Shelley has always been little afraid of commitment; in almost a century of being a vampire, she has never longed for a companion. When she meets a young homeless boy with a sweet tooth, though, she begins to change her mind.

The Walkers

The walkers roam a desert of endless silver sand, under a sky that shines with the light of twin moons. When the smallest walker wanders away from her tribe and finds the first human ever seen in their desert, all of their lives will change forever.

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"A set of excellent short stories, from horror to supernatural, that are all worth reading."

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Whispers is a set of eleven short stories of horror and the supernatural, with each a standalone tale covering a wide range of themes and situations.

The quality of the stories ranges from the average to the excellent and they can all be considered worth reading, with some of them deserving multiple re-reads. Each of the tales has a little something that might spark with the reader and while some of the stories are abstract or set in unfamiliar places, the majority of them are contemporary set in cities and towns and have a very real feeling to them.

Standout stories for me include: “A Mother’s Love” when a mother returns to her two daughters after her death, “The Motel Room” of a ghost trapped by the room who is watching the passage of time, “Beggars” the tale of vampire who suddenly finds herself caring and “Walkers” an interesting tale of strange creatures who walk an endless desert and come across a human.

The horror stories never devolve to outright terror, but manage to hit that feeling of awkward uneasiness with what has just been read. The supernatural stories can be considered more obvious in terms of plot, but even here they still have something good for the reader. Within each, the characters are believable in their actions and each story holds the attention with at least some of the endings being a good surprise.

I would certainly recommend this to someone who enjoys the genres, and for those who like their horror unsettling rather than gory. This is an excellent selection of the author's works and range, and I will be looking out for more in the future.

Rating: 4



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Glass Skin (17 March 2017)
An excellent collection of chilling, and sometimes morbid, paranormal short stories. I would highly recommend this little anthology to anyone who is a fan of horror or supernatural stories. Some of the stories are slightly predictable, but all are very well written and interesting.

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