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Sunday, September 21, 2014

Short Story Review: The Death Catcher by Robert S. Wilson

The Death Catcher
Free sample from my upcoming debut collection WHERE ALL LIGHT IS LEFT TO DIE. Ladies and gentlemen, my story THE DEATH CATCHER, first published in a fantastically dark anthology called FEAR THE REAPER edited by Joe Mynhardt and published by Crystal Lake Publishing
3 parts / 6 pages, updated Sep 08, 2014
When those with a special gift can catch your soul in that dark realm between here and hereafter and bring you back to life, who will save us all from the jealous void?


Great short story with a unique look what happens when we die and what are the consequences of interfering with the natural order of things. I really enjoyed the writing style and the dark edge to the story. I've read Robert Wilson's Shinning in Crimson (review) and he is a talented horror writer. But don't let the word 'horror' scare you off of this story. There is no gore. Horror is so much more than that.

4.5 "Catching" Sheep




SharonStogner

only $2.99
releases: Sept 23, 2014
With six short stories, four flash tales, two novellas, and one novelette, it will clock in right around 80k. The current TOC (which could very well change between now and release) is as such:

The Death Catcher (originally published in Fear the Reaper from Crystal Lake Publishing)
Playing with Fire (exclusive to this collection)
The Singularity (exclusive to this collection)
The Last Time I Saw my Brother Nathan (originally published in A Quick Bite of Flesh from Hazardous Press)
Self-Aware (originally self-published as a stand alone short story)
The Boy in the Elevator (originally published in The Best of The Horror Society 2013)
Forcipules (originally self-published as a stand alone short story)
Calling Me Home (originally published here on my blog)
The Northern Continent (exclusive to this collection)
Reduction (exclusive to this collection)
The Quiet (revised and expanded version, will also be re-released soon as a stand-alone novella)
Through the Mindhole (originally self-published as a stand alone novelette)
The Nesting Place (new, but will also be released as a stand-alone novella)
When those with a special gift can catch your soul in that dark realm between here and hereafter and bring you back to life, who will save us all from the jealous void?

Lurking between the crowds of men and women, there are those among us who feed on something other than plants and animals. Predators with a unique kind of prey. Predators of those who prey on women and children... Predators with a taste for justice.

James Benton might be the last man on earth. Racing to get to work, he finds random abandoned cars, smoldering pile-ups, and something even stranger. Everywhere he goes there's no grass, no people, not even a bird in the sky. Alone in a barren world, James travels west in search of someone, anyone who might have survived The Quiet.

When Art Gibson's collie, Ginger, goes out of control, barking and digging at Dead Man's Hill, Art makes a chilling discovery: someone is trapped inside. Alive. Once rescued, the man himself is even stranger. Naked and unable to speak, he is taken to the hospital. As he recovers from an unknown shock, the fate of an entire universe is at stake.

Thirteen tales in all. Awakened from the mind of Robert S. Wilson. Ripped from their slumber and stretched across the fabric of space and time, silently screaming into the farthest reaches of the cold dead void... where all light is left to die.


About the Author:
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Robert S. Wilson is the author of SHINING IN CRIMSON and FADING IN DARKNESS, books one and two of his dystopian vampire series: EMPIRE OF BLOOD. He is the Bram Stoker Award-nominated editor of BLOOD TYPE: AN ANTHOLOGY OF VAMPIRE SF ON THE CUTTING EDGE, a co-editor of HORROR FOR GOOD: A CHARITABLE ANTHOLOGY and NIGHTSCAPES: VOLUME 1, and lives in Middle Tennessee with his family and a silly obnoxious dog. His short stories have appeared in numerous anthologies, online, and paper publications, and his cyberpunk/horror novella EXIT REALITY was chosen as one of e-thriller.com’s Thrillers of the Month in July 2013. His debut fiction collection WHERE ALL LIGHT IS LEFT TO DIE is scheduled to release on September 23rd, 2014. He is currently working hard to finish a number of novels and novellas all at once like a blind juggler given knives and led into oncoming traffic.

1 comment:

  1. Kudos on your new story collection, Robert! I've pre-ordered my copy and am really looking forward to it.

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