Sometimes no matter how vigilant you are, you can't keep loved ones save. --- Dana McCluskey and her father know very well that there can be dangers around every corner. They wanted to keep Emmy safe. --- But it is impossible to see some dangers coming. And there are those corners that you'd never see, out-of-the-way places just beyond our grasp where loved ones can get very lost — and the danger there is very real indeed.
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- "'For Emmy' will leave its mark on you long after you put it down. Mary has this uncanny ability to draw you into her stories with life like characters and haunting prose.... She is one of the best in the business and 'For Emmy' is one of the best stories I've read this year." - Peter Schwotzer, Literary Mayhem/Famous Monsters of Filmland
- FOR EMMY "easily one of the best of 2011" and containing "more food for thought and downright eeriness than in just about all of the 60+ books I've read so far this year" - Nick Cato, author
- FOR EMMY "chilling, heartbreaking, and quietly terrifying" - Kevin Lucia, SHROUD magazine
- FOR EMMY "brilliant and terrifying...SanGiovanni's masterpiece" - Column McKnight, Dreadful Tales
- FOR EMMY "poignant and creepy as hell" - Hunter Shea, author
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Sometimes no matter how vigilant you are, you can't keep loved ones save. Dana McCluskey and her father know very well that there can be dangers around every corner. They wanted to keep Emmy safe. But it is impossible to see some dangers coming. And there are those corners that you'd never see, out-of-the-way places just beyond our grasp where loved ones can get very lost -- and the danger there is very real indeed.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
By Nick Cato
Format:Kindle Edition
Dana is Emmy's older sister, and they spend their after-school hours helping their father around his small book store. One day Emmy goes missing from right under their noses. With this simple premise the author takes us on a crash course of missing persons cases that branches into issues many may have never considered. Within these short 107 pages I found more food for thought and downright eeriness than in just about all of the 93 horror novels/novellas I've read in 2011.
SanGiovanni's novella dealing with a missing five year-old girl did something few horror stories do (even of its ilk): it actually scared me. And after all, isn't that what horror fiction is supposed to do? Try reading this one alone late at night and you just might agree. I can't recommend this one highly enough.
SanGiovanni's novella dealing with a missing five year-old girl did something few horror stories do (even of its ilk): it actually scared me. And after all, isn't that what horror fiction is supposed to do? Try reading this one alone late at night and you just might agree. I can't recommend this one highly enough.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Kindle Edition
For Emmy is a poison pen letter to all those artificial fairy tale endings that never quite ring true.
For Emmy is a treat for travelers in dark places, a glimpse and a taste of a true talent swimming in dark waters.
This is not for the faint of heart. Mary SanGiovanni does not wear rose tinted glasses, but peers unflinchingly at the things that slither in the night behind black velvet curtains.
She'll take you with her if you let her and show you what she sees. If you go with her you'll be glad you did and rejoice in the shadowy corners of your soul that there is plenty more where this came from.
For Emmy is a treat for travelers in dark places, a glimpse and a taste of a true talent swimming in dark waters.
This is not for the faint of heart. Mary SanGiovanni does not wear rose tinted glasses, but peers unflinchingly at the things that slither in the night behind black velvet curtains.
She'll take you with her if you let her and show you what she sees. If you go with her you'll be glad you did and rejoice in the shadowy corners of your soul that there is plenty more where this came from.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars
smacks ever so slightly of Stephen King's From a Buick Eight, and I mean that in a good way
February 24, 2012
For Emmy is a short novella that tells the story of a young girl's disappearance and, more importantly, what happens when she comes back. This story smacks ever so slightly of Stephen King's From a Buick Eight, and I mean that in a good way. SanGiovanni once again puts her flair for the otherworldly on display and even throws a tiny tidbit out there for fans of her Hollower novels.
More About the Author
Mary SanGiovanni is the author of a number of novels including THE HOLLOWER TRIOLOGY (the first book of which was nominated for the Bram Stoker Award), THRALL, and CHAOS, and the novellas FOR EMMY, THE FADING PLACE, and POSSESSING AMY. Her short fiction has appeared in periodicals and anthologies for the last decade. She has a Masters degree in Writing Popular Fiction from Seton Hill University, Pittsburgh. She is currently a member of The Authors Guild, The International Thriller Writers, and Penn Writers, and was previously an Active member in the Horror Writers Association and the Garden State Horror Writers. She lives in New Jersey with her son and her cat.
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