25 Gates of Hell Is Here For December Dark-Night Reading

Now, dear reader, you seem to have stumbled upon it.

And you have opened it.

You must reap what you have sown.

So proclaims the book’s Amazon blurb and, as I come into the home stretch with my current read, AFTER THE KOOL-AID IS GONE (see just below, December 4), what should appear on my front porch this afternoon but 25 GATES OF HELL (cf. October 30, et al.), with more horror stories to keep me awake for for more than a few long winter nights to come. Though I have, of course, read one tale already, “The Re-Possessed” — or “The Repossessed” (no hyphen) as this new manifestation would have it — originally published in 2016 in CEMETERY RIOTS, of Victorian funerals and shady practices, and not all of them performed by Haitian sailors.

Dare I open it, then, especially in view of the warning above? You bet I do, and in fact I have already to see that it is a hefty book at somewhat over 300 pages with, as the title (sort of) implies, 24 stories plus a closing poem, this last by Editor R.L. Burwick. To again quote the blurb: Come, step into the pages. See firsthand what hell is capable of. And what, indeed?

To find out oneself, or for more information as well as to order (possibly even in time for Christmas? But hurry! Hurry!), one need but press here.