Reality Check: An Anthology of Horror

by Nickolaus Pacione

Cheaply produced and easy on the eyes, The 'Reality TV' craze began in the late '80's and currently makes up over half of all network television slots. The popularity of such programs has led to a glut of such programming whose popularity continues to rise, mostly with the younger generations who've been weaned on such frivolous fare. Inevitably, a dark, sinister side emerges from such a sweeping phenomenon like an evil twin; a 'Fractured Reality', if you will. Witness the horrific future of such programs in the following terror tales: It was once stated that 'reality is one man's perception of the truth'.in the enclosed cases, however, it can be better defined as 'one man's perception of horrors personified.' Contributing authors include William I. Lengeman III; William C. Bates; Joni Latham; Terry Lloyd Vinson; Kim Vinson; Steven L. Shrewsbury; Nickolaus A. Pacione; Nicholas Mounts; and Hasan Abood.

144 pages, Paperback

First published September 30, 2004

About the author

Nickolaus Pacione is the author of five books and the editor of nine anthologies, then 13 issues of a magazine called The Ethereal Gazette. He’s been published across the board for his short stories in Gothic Horror and some of his Science Fiction. The work he’s done in science fiction he can count on his fingers but the horror stories are numerous within the genres of Gothic Horror and other styles of horror.

He will not touch erotic horror with a ten foot pole – nor will he publish that sort of thing either. Because of his Christian background he stays away from homoerotic content in horror and believes there is no room for that in the horror genre especially in the kind of horror fiction he writes. His influences in horror are H.P. Lovecraft, Richard Matheson, Edgar Allan Poe and Stephen King – he’s been compared to any of them as well at any time.

His work had been recently had found its way into the Edgar Allan Poe Museum because of the anthology he’s edited called Nickolaus Albert Pacione Delivers: A Library of Unknown Horrors which is published in a website he’s got a working relationship with. Pacione proved he is more than being self-published as an author but also got published with Tales of the Talisman twice, and with Withersin Magazine. He appears as the closing writer twice on anthologies New Writers of The Purple Page and Darkened Horizons: Issue 3.

Reviews

[Nickless Candeggiante Della Bevanda · Rating 1 out of 5]

Poorly written, poorly edited, poorly packaged. Terribly obvious why this was self-published. Not worth the effort in anyway. Go bang your head against the wall for a few minutes, the effects will be the same.

[Nicholas Mounts · Rating 2 out of 5]

Am I embarrassed to be a part of this anthology? Sort of. If the editing were better, the book wouldn't be a complete waste if time. There are a few almost redeeming stories here and there. My story seriously sucks though.