Absolute Black [Paperback]

Soren Narnia (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 2003

Within lies a collection of what its author calls 'soul horror'--horror fiction whose power lies in its relentless darkness and a nightmare tone from first word to last. In You're Scaring the Children, a man recounts his days as a student at an elementary school cursed by a string of freakish supernatural incidents. An Oral History of Hell relates the experiences of a suicide wandering the afterworld and trying to make sense of the mortal terrors which claimed him. In Beckoning Woods, Finishing a Play traces the mounting fear of a writer who suspects that some faint scratchings from his basement foretell a confrontation with a madman. And Adagio for Night follows a paranormal researcher into a house inhabited by ghosts who prey upon the deepest conflicts of his tortured heart.

Absolute Black is designed to terrify without distraction, to scare without the possibility of even a momentary release.

Editorial Reviews

About the Author

Soren Narnia is thirty-three years old and the author of several other works of both fiction and truth. At this moment he is standing on the rainy deck of a ferry between San Francisco and Sausalito, inconspicuously studying strangers, and looking for another story to tell.

Product Details

• Paperback: 164 pages
• Publisher: Writers Club Press (January 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0595267785
• ISBN-13: 978-0595267781
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,346,029 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4.0 out of 5 stars If you're in the mood to be really spooked, November 27, 2003

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ElectricOver (Harpers Ferry) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Absolute Black (Paperback)

The best thing about these stories is the way the author writes about grisly violence. He never describes it explicitly, just with a few choice words so you come away with a feeling of revulsion even though the details are mostly in your head. Don't look for the slightest bit of comic relief or anything about pop culture in this book. It's all totally serious. The story about the haunted school is a classic.

4.0 out of 5 stars moody, creepy stuff, August 29, 2003

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Gerry (Lancaster, PA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Absolute Black (Paperback)

Not satisfied with just freaking the reader out with the usual flat-out shocks and suspense, which this book is definitely filled with, the author tries to go deeper, and I'm still not sure if this is a good or a bad thing....there is a lot of psychological stuff going on here, not all of it entirely clear to me, but it does make you feel like you got more than just a cheap thrill...easily the best story in here is "You're Scaring the Children", it's just totally eerie, and the deepest is "Adagio For Night"....what it really means, I'm not sure, but reading it at 2 a.m. alone in my bedroom, I was basically too creeped out to care.