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Death and Candy: 40 Tales of Terror
What if you could talk to the monster beneath your bed?If the devil offered you a job, would you take it?What would you do if you suspected your neighbor was a vampire?The answers to these questions, and many others, await between the covers of this spine-chilling collection of horror stories. Good luck, and remember--don't look behind you.
Monsters, Demons, Vampires and Killers--Even the Grim Reaper herself
You'll find a veritable menagerie of evil creatures within this anthology, of both the supernatural and disturbingly human varieties.
Monsters, Demons, Vampires and Killers--Even the Grim Reaper herself
You'll find a veritable menagerie of evil creatures within this anthology, of both the supernatural and disturbingly human varieties.
200 pages, Kindle Edition
Published December 1, 2019
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December 21, 2019
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I fought my reading slump one short story from this book at a time. The good thing about this is, it's short and quick read you'll crave for more.
My top favorites are:
1. How the Scarecrow Died
2. She Says the Smell of Death Turns Her On
3. God is a Waitress in Vegas
4. Parasitic
5. The Tokyo Subway Demon
6. My Neighbor was a Vampire
“You’re God?” I said. “What are you doing working at a Vegas diner?”
“I’m a people person, I guess,” she said. “Feels like Vegas is the perfect place to see people at their worst.”
“Why do you want to see people at their worst?” I asked.
God conjured a cup of black tea and a couple of sugar cubes of thin air. She stirred the cubes into her drink with my spoon.
“Flaws are what define humanity,” she said. “Well, that and free will, both of which the angels lack. That’s what makes humans so interesting, and angels so god-damned boring.”
“If people are so flawed, why did you make us that way?” I asked.
God stared wistfully down into her tea for a moment before she raised her eyes back up to mine.
“I didn’t mean to,” she said. “You just sort of turned out that way. Side-effect of too much free will.”
“But that’s what I’ve never understood about your kind,” she said. “Why hide at all?”
“What?”
“Most people spend their lives trying to hide from pain,” she said. “They hide from it with alcohol, materialism, relationships… Why not just accept it? To be human is to suffer. You can’t hide from something that’s a part of you; you can’t run from something that is always with you.”
“What… just accept it, and let it swallow you whole?”
“There’s a difference between accepting something as fact and letting it swallow you without a fight. You were never a loser because you were hurting; you were just a human.”
“That’s okay,” said the demon. “Sometimes it’s better to see what isn’t there instead of what is.”
“if there’s one thing I’ve learned in life, it’s that living in fear is like standing under an avalanche. If you don’t move out of the way, the snow just keeps piling higher and higher, and eventually you get so deep that you can never dig your way out.”
The book title Death and Candy suits the short stories compiled in this book, I love how it gave me a whole new outlook to this "Tales of Terror" thing.
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I fought my reading slump one short story from this book at a time. The good thing about this is, it's short and quick read you'll crave for more.
My top favorites are:
1. How the Scarecrow Died
2. She Says the Smell of Death Turns Her On
3. God is a Waitress in Vegas
4. Parasitic
5. The Tokyo Subway Demon
6. My Neighbor was a Vampire
“You’re God?” I said. “What are you doing working at a Vegas diner?”
“I’m a people person, I guess,” she said. “Feels like Vegas is the perfect place to see people at their worst.”
“Why do you want to see people at their worst?” I asked.
God conjured a cup of black tea and a couple of sugar cubes of thin air. She stirred the cubes into her drink with my spoon.
“Flaws are what define humanity,” she said. “Well, that and free will, both of which the angels lack. That’s what makes humans so interesting, and angels so god-damned boring.”
“If people are so flawed, why did you make us that way?” I asked.
God stared wistfully down into her tea for a moment before she raised her eyes back up to mine.
“I didn’t mean to,” she said. “You just sort of turned out that way. Side-effect of too much free will.”
“But that’s what I’ve never understood about your kind,” she said. “Why hide at all?”
“What?”
“Most people spend their lives trying to hide from pain,” she said. “They hide from it with alcohol, materialism, relationships… Why not just accept it? To be human is to suffer. You can’t hide from something that’s a part of you; you can’t run from something that is always with you.”
“What… just accept it, and let it swallow you whole?”
“There’s a difference between accepting something as fact and letting it swallow you without a fight. You were never a loser because you were hurting; you were just a human.”
“That’s okay,” said the demon. “Sometimes it’s better to see what isn’t there instead of what is.”
“if there’s one thing I’ve learned in life, it’s that living in fear is like standing under an avalanche. If you don’t move out of the way, the snow just keeps piling higher and higher, and eventually you get so deep that you can never dig your way out.”
The book title Death and Candy suits the short stories compiled in this book, I love how it gave me a whole new outlook to this "Tales of Terror" thing.
June 25, 2024
This is a 3.5 🌟 read rounded ⬆️ to 4 🌟.
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