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Tesseracts Thirteen invites you to delve into literature's shadowy side!
This, the newest and most unusual of the popular and award-winning Tesseracts anthologies, utilizes the mysterious and bewitching number 'thirteen' to explore a new realm of innovative, thought-provoking and disturbing fiction. Award-winning authors and editors Nancy Kilpatrick and David Morrell have unearthed twenty-three stories of horror and dark fantasy that reflect a mA(c)lange of Canada's most exciting known and about-to-be known writers. These eerie-genre tales range from the unsettling to the sinister. Inside you will find stories featuring:
The young, but not always innocent - ghosts; multiple births; comic book characters come to life
Romance gone terribly wrong - curses; mournful spirits; bringing back the dead
Creepy and twisted realities - mummies; windigos; post apocalyptic Canada
The authors in "Tesseracts 13" span the country, from east to west coast, applying a particularly Canadian stamp to a classic and revered genre. Contributors include: Kelley Armstrong; Alison Baird; Rebecca Bradley; Mary E. Choo; Suzanne Church; Kevin Cockle; Ivan Dorin; Katie Harse; Kevin Kvas; Michael Kelly; Jill Snider Lum; Catherine MacLeod; Matthew Moore; Silvia Moreno-Garcia; David Nickle; Jason Ridler; Gord Rollo; Andrea Schlecht; Daniel Sernine; Stephanie Short; Jean-Louis Trudel; Edo van Belkom; Bev Vincent
Expert-in-the-field Robert Knowlton provides a fascinating and detailed overview of the history of horror and dark fantasy writing and publishing in Canada.
About the Author
David Morrell is the award-winning author of First Blood, the novel in which Rambo was created. He was born in 1943 in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada. In 1960, at the age of seventeen, he became a fan of the classic television series, Route 66, about two young men in a Corvette traveling the United States in search of America and themselves. The scripts by Stirling Silliphant so impressed Morrell that he decided to become a writer.
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4.0 out of 5 stars
Canadian Horror at its best!,
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This review is from: Tesseracts Thirteen: Chilling Tales of the Great White North (Paperback)
It has been far too long to be waiting for an anthology of Canadian horror. This anthology from Edge Science Fiction/Fantasy Publishing does far more than I had anticipated. The stories are creepy, frightening, and in some cases, deeply unsettling. The stories involving children raises the hair on the back of your neck. This long-awaited anthology will be a welcome addition to any horror-lover's bookshelf...and more! From a brilliant take on the Pied Piper of Hamelin to a heart-wrenching and disturbing story of a teen suicide, "Tesseracts Thirteen" offers journeys you might not want to - but will be unwilling not to - take.
Editors Nancy Kirkpatrick and David Morrell have selected the best of the best - some stories from well-established writers (some genre writers; others not so much) and from emerging writers. With several nods to authors who've published in ChiZine Publications (a well-respected and fabulous publication in its own right), "Tesseracts Thirteen" will give you stories you won't be able to forget...and some you won't want to remember. Reading this book was like the voyeuristic experience of watching paranormal programmes and ghost hunting stories. You'll be checking behind the doors and under the bed. Only buy this book if you promise - PROMISE - not to read it at bedtime. Kudos to the publishers and to the editors for presenting this anthology of Canadian horror and dark genre writing. Once you've read this collection, you'll want more. And more. And more!
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3.5 out of 5 stars (2 customer reviews) 1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Weird and spooky without going overboard,
By Paul Lappen - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Tesseracts Thirteen: Chilling Tales of the Great White North (Paperback)
Here is another group of imaginative tales from the Great White North. Because of the number of this volume, 13, this book focuses on horror and dark fantasy stories.
The world has been ravaged by a very contagious disease that destroys undeveloped frontal lobes of the brain, thereby turning all children, whose brains are not yet fully developed, into brainless automatons. In one family, the father is ready to commit suicide out of despair; at this point, the parents are expected to take their affected children with them. The wife refuses to give up hope that someone, somewhere is working on a cure. A former stockbroker suffers from a debilitating disease which looks like ALS on the outside, but it isn't. It is as if his body is slowing down, almost to the point of stopping, and he is always cold, even in the middle of summer. A group of children are held prisoner by a man who, by playing his flute, can make them do anything, even throw themselves off a cliff. A woman has to deal with her dead ex-husband living in her house, eating pizza and using the shower. An elderly man, living alone in the woods, is asked about the disappearance of a member of another family also living in the woods. A woman is in the process of giving birth to quintuplets, at home. The doctor is old enough to remember the Dionne quintuplets, who grew up as media darlings and were not allowed to live regular lives. He has a very difficult decision to make when two of the babies develop severe breathing problems. Having just returned from her husband's funeral, a woman does battle with a bluejay that got into her house, and will not leave her alone. These are all first-rate stories. They are weird and spooky without going overboard. They will keep the reader entertained, and they are well worth reading. 0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
it's okay.,
By Chelsea Bell - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Tesseracts Thirteen: Chilling Tales of the Great White North (Paperback)
I bought this for one story by my favorite author. I read some of the other stories also but overall wasn't very impressed.
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