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Do-Overs and Detours
- Eighteen Eerie Tales
- Narrated by: Richard Peterson
- Length: 6 hrs and 26 mins
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Summary
Detours are amazing creatures. A detour can cut your existence short or it can lead you down a long road that will linger far into the distant reaches of eternity. These unexpected tangents, which people stumble across nearly every day, will haunt you in a frighteningly familiar fashion.
Wander into a laundromat and find a kind of a time machine. Indulge yourself in a particularly nasty game of baseball. Hitch a ride on a freight train with the piggyback man, entomb yourself in a trailer walled with books, take a ride on a bus that is going nowhere fast, or just lean over an empty ocean and wait for the first mermaid you see. Detour around an overturned trailer of chickens and find a chance to do it all over again. Take a taxi ride with a very hungry passenger, or just walk in the park and watch a juggler balancing severed heads.
Reality will take you only so far. After that, there is nothing to rely on but faith and fear. I offer you 18 eerie tales of fantasy, horror, science fiction, and all around strangeness that will take you to the edge of the map and then nudge you just a little bit further.
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- Amazon Customer
- 15-10-18
A no holds barred collection of terror and gore
I requested a promo code from the author for this book as part of my October Halloween reads, and boy was that a good decision!
This collection of 18 tales is one of the best I've read. Not one of theses stories disappointed me, they weren't all great but they were at least all good which is not a common thing among this kind of collections.
My only gripe with it is that in a couple stories Vernon seems to use crude and vulgar language only for the sake of using it. Now I'm not prissy, this did not disgust me, disturb me or in any way offend me. My problem with it is that, to me, it just serves to cheapen the story. I think it was in the story with the Red Nun that the character made a simile involving a baby that just felt too out there and took me out of a story that otherwise engrossed me. It could have been in another story, I don't really remember, it was a small thing but the only negative criticism I can give this collection.
Now I want more of the Piggyback Man and The Red Nun! Hopefully they'll appear in other stories by Vernon that I'll definitely be reading in the near future.
Richard Peterson did a top notch job narrating this, he did a good job bringing each character to life and in the stories with several characters did a good job separating each of them with unique and believably voices.
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