Saturday, March 6, 2010

A COLLECTION OF EXTREMELY CURIOUS LITTLE STORIES

by LOUISE ANN BARTON
mistress of the macabre

REVIEWS FOR THIS BOOK:
"SCARY GOOD! -  EXCELLENT! - WELL-WRITTEN BY A MASTER STORYTELLER."
"THRILLS, CHILLS, HUMOR, AND A STOP-YOUR-HEART ENDING!"
"TAKE A RIDE WITH THE QUEEN OF SCARY!"
"BARTON IS A TALENTED WORD ARTIST - A PERFECT CHRISTMAS GIFT."

These are extremely CURIOUS LITTLE STORIES,
FLASH FICTION tales of terror
small enough to fit in pocket or purse.
Ideal reading while waiting for a bus or in a doctor's office.

Each story is less than 1,000 words.
Each story is different from the rest.
Each story ends with a twist.


VOLUME  I (plot descriptions):
Contains stories of a midwestern cannibal, an over-zealous social worker about to steal a poverty-stricken couple's children,  a Russian socialite traveling in a sleigh tracked by wolves, a cloistered New York nun trying to escape a serial killer, a philandering movie star yearns for a castle in Spain, English tourists embark on a misadventure in an Egyptian tomb, a rich and beautiful CEO is threatened by cannibals and a shark, In medieval Hungary a young girl discovers something worse than the plague, a young boy tries to return his baby sister to Heaven, and a stoned rock star vacations in a haunted New Orleans mansion . 

VOLUME I (titles)
DON'T GO NEAR THE CAVES
IN FOR A PENNY, IN FOR A POUND
OVER THE MEADOW AND THROUGH THE WOOD
WHOM DO YOU TRUST
A CASTLE IN SPAIN
TO SLEEP WITH KINGS
SHARK ISLAND
THE FAMILY CREST
REFUNDABLE WITHIN SEVEN DAYS

THE VAMPIRE IN THE MIRROR


VOLUME II (plot descriptions):
Contains stories of a English family's hideously cursed inheritance, two scientists use a government project as a deadly weapon, an Egyptian mummy is displayed in a small museum with murderous results, a modern Seminole warrior meets his greatest challenge, an immigrant janitor tries to infiltrate California's vampire subculture, a cat and a talking parrot witness a murder, a jealous would-be writer puts his name on another author's works, a mugger eludes the police by hiding inside a vault in a New Orleans cemetery, Walpurgis eve in 14th century Germany  where beasties go bump in the night, and something more terrible than The Ripper haunts White Chapel Alley.
   
VOLUME II (titles)
INHERITANCE IN THE ATTIC
PROJECT ADAM
THE MUMMY MURDERS
LAND OF THE TREMBLING EARTH
THE VAMPIRE BLOG
PARROT WITH A CANDLESTICK
WEREWOLVES FOR BREAKFAST
CREEPING IN THE CRYPT
WALPURGISNACHT
THE CURIOUS CASE OF WHITECHAPEL ALLEY


VOLUME III (plot descriptions):
Contains stories of a wealthy couple who find a changeling in their baby's crib, the moonlight on Lycos has a strange affect on its inhabitants, In Scotland a grave digger is visited by the recent dead, a trophy wife plots to murder her husband with radiation, a police inspector investigates strange murders in Whitechapel Alley, a murdered woman returns to walk by night,  a 12th Century chess set is haunted, an ancient evil of Celtic tales returns to prey on tourists,  a beast dwells beneath a 12th century Scottish chapel and refuses to die,  the slaughter of everyone in an ancient Icelandic castle lingers on, and an ancestral English Hall harbors a horde of murderous ghosts.


 VOLUME III (titles)
FIRST-BORN SON
I SEE DEAD PEOPLE
HOWLING MOON
THE CREEPING DOSE
THE CURIOUS CASE OF WHITECHAPEL ALLEY
LET THE DEAD LIE STILL
RED QUEEN, WHITE QUEEN
THE SOUL EATER
THE BEAST OF OLD KIRK CHAPEL
THE HAUNTING OF GUNDHAR'S HALL


VOLUME IV (plot descriptions):
In England, during WWII, every ghost in Hastings
Hall is determined to kill the new lord;



VOLUME IV (titles)
THE GRISLY SECRET OF HASTINGS HALL


and BONUS short stories
THE WITCH'S HOUSE
THE SECRET ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY
THE RISING OF THE SUN; THE CHANGING OF THE MOON
THE OLD WAYS
THE VINTAGE VAMPIRE FLICK





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Story, Author , Writing, Writer , Louise Ann Barton is also a Pine Barrens author and a Pine Barrens poet.