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Bright Lights and Glass Houses
“Reality made this factual. The monsters weren’t the undead, the wolfmen or the creeping horrors. The monsters were living; they were alive. They lived among the population, waiting, watching and then, when they were content to watch no longer… they snapped.”
A shot is fired. Passengers on the Underground get too close for comfort. A stoic grandmother reaches out to her estranged granddaughter through her first computer. A familiar drive home takes an unfamiliar turn – literally. A Hollywood effects artist discovers that even heroes have a dark side.
Twenty two tales of horror and mystery unearth dark secrets and terrible truths. From serial killers to short-order cooks, disillusioned office workers to child prodigies, the members of this braying human menagerie are on a collision course with the end times – and one another. Ashton Raze’s debut short story collection weaves a series of narratives into a creepy, tangled, darkly comic whole.
A shot is fired. Passengers on the Underground get too close for comfort. A stoic grandmother reaches out to her estranged granddaughter through her first computer. A familiar drive home takes an unfamiliar turn – literally. A Hollywood effects artist discovers that even heroes have a dark side.
Twenty two tales of horror and mystery unearth dark secrets and terrible truths. From serial killers to short-order cooks, disillusioned office workers to child prodigies, the members of this braying human menagerie are on a collision course with the end times – and one another. Ashton Raze’s debut short story collection weaves a series of narratives into a creepy, tangled, darkly comic whole.
- GenresShort Stories
257 pages, Paperback
First published May 6, 2012
About the author
Ashton Raze
3 books22 followersAshton Raze is a co-founder of Owl Cave Games. Raze used to work as a journalist for The Telegraph, GameSpot and others. Now she can be found writing various adventure games for Owl Cave, as well as the hugely successful universe sandbox game, Starbound. Raze is also a novelist, with 2012's Bright Lights & Glass Houses being her first release. New books are in the works! Which is good.
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July 30, 2015
Brilliant collection of short stories
Ashton Raze has done something wonderful with her first collection of short stories. Difficult to put down, hilarious, horrifying, and interconnected, this is something I will come back to many times. There are echoes of Vonnegut here.
Ashton Raze has done something wonderful with her first collection of short stories. Difficult to put down, hilarious, horrifying, and interconnected, this is something I will come back to many times. There are echoes of Vonnegut here.
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