- Paperback: 228 pages
- Publisher: Booksurge Llc (Jan 20 2005)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1419600915
- ISBN-13: 978-1419600913
- Product Dimensions: 20.3 x 13.3 x 1.3 cm
- Shipping Weight: 327 g
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Diverse Tales is the long-awaited collection of the lost works of the celebrated master of offbeat and macabre fiction, Nicholas Grabowsky.
About the Author
Nicholas Grabowsky’s novels of horror/fantasy, both as himself and as Nicholas Randers, have been acclaimed throughout the world by genre fans for over two decades and praised by such horror gurus as Clive Barker, Wes Craven, Stephen King, and a multitude of today's top authors and media. His body of work includes the macabre aliens-among-us epic The Everborn, The Rag Man, Pray Serpent’s Prey, Halloween IV (and its special edition), Diverse Tales and The Wicked Haze, with a body of work extending to screenplays and a wide variety of nonfiction. His independent film projects include the slasher creature feature Cutting Edges. Aside from his writing career, he has been in the limelight as a radical gospel preacher and rock vocalist, teacher, lecturer and activist. Currently, Mr. Grabowsky is a resident of the Sacramento, California area, where he is at work on new and exciting novels and projects including RED AFTERWORLD, a two-part graphic novel for AMERICAN CARNEVIL, The Sirens of Knowland, The Downwardens, an Everborn sequel and comic books, and has developed the small publishing firm of Diverse Media.
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When Clive Barker says "Nicholas, I salute you!" the rest of us need to take notice, Dec 16 2007
By Norman Applegate - Published on Amazon.com
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This review is from: Diverse Tales (Paperback)
Creativity is a force we think we have, or at least some of us wish we had, well, Nicholas Grabowsky owns it. Consider this, author, actor, singer, songwriter, and tutor, which includes novels, screenplays, poetry and songs...WOW.His journey of writing the short story goes as far back as elementary school and years later went by the pen names of Nicholas Randers (and occasionally Marsena Shane) but in the mid-nineties, the horror writer we know as Nick Grabowsky emerged.
His list of titles include Halloween IV, Sweet Dreams Lady Moon, The Rag Man, Nancy, Diverse Tales, Tale of the Makeshift Faire, Shocker II (for Wes Craven, though never produced), The Wicked Haze, Diverse Arcanum, a series of self-help books, scripts, poetry and short stories.
In 1995, he moved from Southern California to Sacramento, and in 2003, founded a publishing/promotions organization Diverse Media.
A couple of noteworthy points, his novel "The Everborn," was awarded the 2005 Predators & editors top 10 finisher, and with the Halloween novels he is helping to establish Mike Myers as an American horror icon.
His novel "Diverse Tales," published in 2004 with 13 short stories is an honor to review. Did I say 13 stories, oh yeah; I failed to mention there is more, as an added bonus a collection of poems and thoughts. His writing style is colorful, alarming and is guaranteed to leave you with scary thoughts that will come back and haunt you in your dreams.
If you are allowed to have a favorite story among so many I do, "The Newspaper Rack." I don't know where it comes from but out of nowhere Nick surprises you. Here is a story of a young hotel employee who works the night shift and out of boredom develops a personal challenge to help himself to whatever he finds and can loot, but gets so much more. In the tradition of the Grabowsky horror, layers are added to this tale until we realize we're in the middle of a chain reaction of events that end with a nightmarish finale.
With titles like The Wanting Seed, The Falling, and Mental this collection of macabre stories will remind you why Nicholas is a major voice in horror.
Norm Applegate
Author, "Into the Spell"
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A superior collection from a remarkable writer!, May 10 2005
By Joseph Newton - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Diverse Tales (Paperback)
This collection of stories by horror author Grabowsky blew me away, and books rarely do that for me. Its stories are utterly original, with unpredictable formulas and unique vision, and the writing works so well it was like watching a series of movies in my head."The Wanting Seed" and "Bring Back Eden" were so frightening I could barely sleep for the next couple of nights after reading, but the collection isn't entirely comprised of Grabowsky's brand of horror. I was very touched by "Trancer's Time", a real twist on a son's quest to see his father, blending sci-fi and fantasy elements in a bizarre chemistry that is reminiscent of Roald Dahl. "Granny Geraldine" left images in my head I still can't escape. A real treat is the "extras" section at the back of the book, loaded with twisted and surreal poetry and old stories that were written early on, according to their accompanying dates, short writings the author wrote when he was very young.
I highly recommend this book to anyone who loves to read fantastic tales, for this is truly a fantastic book. I give the author tremendous praise and hope for more, much much more!
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