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Sweat & Blood: Short Stories (2015)

2015 · Duncan Ralston · 109 p. · United States of America

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Six short, dark tales about work (and play) from the twisted imagination of Duncan Ralston: crime, dark comedy, science-fiction, and horror. When Annie Watkins takes a job at a local New Orleans TV station, her preemptive obituaries of famous people seem to be killing them off. Inmates used to catch fire on Old Sparky at Alamosa County Prison; now they reanimate. A man comes face to face with destiny in a public restroom. A small town school bus driver takes matters into his own hands when a bully puts a kid in the hospital. Nature goes haywire in an animal sanctuary. A new delivery van causes Katie and Gavin's life to take a turn for the worse. Contains the novelettes HOW TO KILL A CELEBRITY and DEAD MEN WALKING.

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Une proposition de 2015 centrée sur dark et Horror. Réalisée par Duncan Ralston.

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Influences

  1. 1900
    Rosemary's Baby
  2. 1926
    The Call of Cthulhu
  3. 1927
    The Colour Out of Space
  4. 1933
    The Horror in the Museum: A Novel
  5. 1938
    Who Goes There?
  6. 2015
    Sweat & Blood: Short Stories

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