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A Long December

By: Richard Chizmar
Narrated by: David Stifel
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In 1996, Richard Chizmar's debut short story collection, Midnight Promises, was a finalist for the World Fantasy Award. Publishers Weekly called it "a sterling collection" while singling out "The Silence of Sorrow" as "an understated masterpiece".

Two years later, Subterranean Press published a mini-collection from Chizmar entitled Monsters and Other Stories. In his introduction, acclaimed genre critic Edward Bryant said, "When all is said and done, this book should leave you in utter silence, giving you time and opportunity to contemplate what you just read. Tough storytelling from a tough writer; but a writer who is not calloused. Chizmar possesses a finely honed gift of empathy. With utter grace and loving kindness, he'll put you right inside the life (and soul) of the monster."

Now, nearly two decades later, Chizmar assembles 35 stories, including a previously unpublished novella, and presents us with A Long December. This massive new collection features more than 150,000 words of Chizmar's very best short fiction and includes 8,000 words of autobiographical story notes.

Eerie, suspenseful, poignant, the stories in A Long December range from horror to suspense, crime to dark fantasy, mainstream to mystery.

©2016 Richard Chizmar (P)2017 Journalstone Publishing Anthologies Anthologies & Short Stories Horror Scary Thriller & Suspense Fiction Short Story Fantasy Exciting

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Great bunch short stories, finished off with a bang.
Looking forward to a whole book.

I may have found myself a new author.

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I decided to try out a Chizmar book after reading the collaboration a he's done with Stephen King, and I'm glad I did. I like the short story format, and this book contained some really good ones. All of them are more or less disturbing, and most of them lean into horror. Chizmar really has the knack of writing good characters, and that is what really makes the stories great.

Great collection of disturbing short stories

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