Sex, Death & Mind Control [Kindle Edition]

Robert Chazz Chute (Author)

Book Description

This is perilously close to a how-to book about your favorite things: sex, death and mind control. This collection of eight short stories twists into a deliciously dark warning of how dangerous seemingly ordinary people can be. You might even be one of the dangerous ones. Each tale of psychological horror packs a gut punch of surprise every time. (Two award-winners are included in this collection.)

You're thinking about buying this book, but you're not sure. Look behind you. Make sure you're alone. Now look again, because the truth is, you're never alone. They're watching through the keyholes and your computer. They use the pipes under your toilet for antennae. Let them know you're on to them. Make them think you're one of them. Click "BUY."

Editorial Reviews

Review

Chute's writing style is engaging and evocative, his character development so strong that you find yourself as captivated by the characters as you are by the setting and the tale, and his stories are well-paced and pack a wallop at the end. The lives, loves, losses, and lessons of Poeticule Bay will linger with you long after you've finished the book. ~ Hope Sullivan

About the Author

Robert Chazz Chute is a former journalist, publicist, columnist, book sales rep, editor and award winning writer. He's also the author of Self-help for Stoners, Bigger Than Jesus, and The Dangerous Kind & Other Stories. His next book in The Hit Man Series is Higher Than Jesus, to be released in October. 

Chazz writes and podcasts Self-help for Stoners full-time from the wilds of Canada. (No, you don't have to be high to enjoy it.) Everything Chazz writes falls under the categories of suspense, mystery or thriller.

Product Details

• File Size: 157 KB
• Print Length: 59 pages
• Simultaneous Device Usage: Unlimited
• Publisher: Ex Parte Press (October 19, 2011)
• Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
• Language: English
• ASIN: B005XQ595C
• Text-to-Speech: Enabled
• X-Ray: Not Enabled
• Lending: Enabled
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #833,372 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Sex, Death and Mind Control February 23, 2012

By johligo

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Sex, Death & Mind Control
I will keep this short and sweet :-) I absolutely love Robert Chazz Chute's style of writing: well-written (so much actually isn't these days...), taut and gripping! This collection of stories more than fills the bill from the award winning "End of the Line" (one client's turnaround on the Collections agent at the other end of the telephone line) to the second award winner, "The Clawed Bathtub" (where we learn "the difference between ...hero and villain"). Between these two strong pillars are other twisted tales, two favourites of mine being "Clean Up" and the "Fortune Teller." I thoroughly enjoyed these stories and highly recommend them!

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful

4.0 out of 5 stars Dark Page Turner February 22, 2012

By Mark Young

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Many great and gripping stories about mean people. Loved the Circe Papua stories, especially the first story, "End of the Line." She's not only a great psychiatrist, she's also a bit of a psycho. "The Express" was an awesome tete-a-tete battle of wills. Riveting. "The Fortune Teller" went in an unexpected direction at the end, but I guess I would've seen it coming if I believed in fortune telling. (Maybe.)

This collection went down smooth and easy. Lots of dark page-turners. By the time you reach the climax of "The Clawed Bathtub," you are ready to believe human beings are capable of anything. Fun!

More About the Author

Robert Chazz Chute (born 1964 - Gee, let's not speculate!) is in suspense (figuratively and literally) and loves funny, hardboiled fiction. He is a former newspaper journalist and magazine columnist who has worked in various worker drone capacities in book publishing's hive mind. The winner of seven writing awards and nominated for a Maggy, he writes surprising stories from his bunker office under a volcano somewhere in the Canadian Shield guarded by a clone army of ninja monkey assassins. He doesn't take himself too seriously, even when writing about himself in the third person. Only the suspense and heft of the literary merit should be taken seriously.

He also does a weekly podcast on iTunes and Stitcher Radio called All That Chazz. A word about titles: Please note that the ebook Sex, Death & Mind Control is neither porn nor is it gory. Jesus is in my titles, but it's pronounced "Hay-soose". Also, you don't have to be a stoner to love Self-help for Stoners. It's all twisted and twisty stories with gut punch endings to delight the reader and distract you from anything that pains you. The author is not available to help any new readers move, but he is handy with a rubber mallet if you are (a) close by, and (b) need anything or anyone malleted.