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999 al sarrantonio7/2/2023 ![]() A new child in school proves to be the incarnation of Halloween nightmare in ""Pumpkin Head."" ""Bogy"" features a quartet of kids determined to prod the living incarnation of Fear into making their drab world delightfully scary again. ""Under My Bed"" is narrated by a young boy who befriends the monster under his bed and enlists him as a defense against his abusive father. Virtually all show the influence of Ray Bradbury in their child's-eye views of a world where the magical and the monstrous seep fluidly into one another. ![]() The 18 stories in this first collection are gems of weirdness that mostly sidestep the traditional themes and approaches of supernatural fiction and shape deeply personal fears of loneliness, rejection and nonconformity into haunting scenarios with an almost primal power. ![]() ![]() Although best known as a novelist (House Haunted) and anthologist (999), Sarrantonio has been writing short tales of horror and dark fantasy for nearly two decades. ![]()
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