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Bleedthrough and Other Small Horrors Kindle Edition

by Scarlett R. Algee (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

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EVERYTHING BEGINS WITH BLOOD.

A virtual-reality getaway stirs up latent malice. A lingering illness hides a truly monstrous malady. A young girl realizes her new stepmother is something other than human, while a dying man’s last wish bestows his ghoulish lover with the most intimate of gifts. A solitary occultist wakes to find his summoning ritual gone horribly awry, a mother’s grief leads her into a resort’s troubled past, and a teenage girl’s growing pains mark the beginning of an otherworldly change.

These and other stories await in Bleedthrough and Other Small Horrors, the debut collection of dark short fiction from Scarlett R. Algee.

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May 26, 2020
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"A startlingly beautiful debut collection from a major rising talent in the horror genre. In these pages, you'll find gore, pain, love, and the weird, all tied up in perfectly creepy little packages. Keep an eye on Scarlett R. Algee; she's only getting started." --Gwendolyn Kiste, Bram Stoker Award (R) -winning author of The Rust Maidens

"It's tempting to read these exquisite story morsels quickly, but don't let their length fool you. They pack a full-sized punch, with enough world and character to make you fall in love before they break your heart. These tales are as smooth, dark, and small as a poisoned lozenge." --Sarah Read, author of The Bone Weaver's Orchard and Out of Water

"Scarlett R. Algee's Bleedthrough and Other Small Horrors is a thoroughly enjoyable read, a glittering display case of flawless prose gems, easily one of the most readable and purely enjoyable collections of the year." --William Holloway, author of "Ammonia" (The Abyssal Plain: The R'lyeh Cycle) and The Immortal Body

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Scarlett R. Algee's fiction has been published by Body Parts Magazine, Bards and Sages Quarterly, Pen of the Damned, and The Wicked Library, among other places. Her short story Dark Music, written for the podcast The Lift, was a 2016 Parsec Awards finalist, and her flash-fiction piece Bone Deep is a 2020 Pushcart Prize nominee. She lives in rural Tennessee with a beagle cleverly disguised as a Hound of Tindalos, skulks on Twitter at @scarlettralgee, and blogs occasionally at scarlettralgee.com.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B088KTXTBQ
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Cold War Radio Press; 1st edition (May 26, 2020)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ May 26, 2020
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 1866 KB
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Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
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Best Sellers Rank: #2,342,107 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #5,468 in Horror Short Stories
- #11,467 in Occult Horror
- #21,045 in Occult Fiction

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Scarlett R. Algee writes, edits, crafts, and has certain ceremonial duties as a devotee of Nyarlathotep. She lives in the wilds of Tennessee with a beagle and an uncertain number of cats.

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Bruce

Quick, dangerous, delightful stories

Reviewed in the United States on June 24, 2021

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I loved this collection very much.

A lot of it was written as flash fiction, so they're stories just a tiny handful of pages long. I, as regular readers know, am wordy as all get out, and I am consumed with envious admiration for just how much Algee can accomplish in a dozen paragraphs. These pieces are so rich in evocative atmosphere, but also in sharply, clearly delineated action and character. I want to grow up to write like that sometime.

There's a whole cluster of stories about ghouls in the Lovecraftian mode, once-human creatures who eat the dead and lead often mannered, cultured lives in their sanctuaries beneath cemeteries. They live and love with heavy doses of irony, and longevity complicates their relationships with regular living human beings. I haven't had this much fun with ghouls since the late Brian McNaughton's marvelous collection Throne of Bones; this is more of the same in the best way.

As usual with horror, this won't be for everyone. There are would-be murderous parents and equally dangerous children; there's abuse, emotional and physical, and torture, intentional and otherwise. None of this is gory in presentation nor laid out for shock value, but it's there, and you know better than me whether you should be reading such things. If you like horror and they're not perils for you right now, I very highly recommend this collection. I zipped through it with delight.

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Nelson

Fantastic Collection From Brilliant Voice in the Spooky

Reviewed in the United States on October 1, 2022

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This is a collection with much more teeth than it needs and that is my favorite thing about the work of Algee. The work always resonates long after putting it down as though the decision to bring a gun to a knife fight is anything but putting the odds in in your corner. That what Algee does; the bets are already hedged in their favor and once you are solidly invested in the stories, boom. These are smart dangerous tales. Stories like "A Kiss of Flesh" and "Incision" offer expedient trips to dread. Favorites like "Gravechild" and the anchor tale "Bleedthrough" follow you out of the book to stay with you. There is a fantastic resonance in Algee's work that makes it worth seeking out and more importantly, rereading time and time again. I look forward to much more down the road.

Reviewed in the United States on November 5, 2023

Didn’t enjoy this and got tired of uninspired stories and less-than interesting plots. Save your money and pick something else. Wish I had money back.

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Alan Sessler

Ghouls, body horror, sci-fi and more

Reviewed in the United States on January 8, 2021

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Algee has quite the way with words, especially evident in the case of Bleedthrough and Other Small Horrors, where she has fewer of them to use. Most often she tells complete stories in two pages. Many are nightmarish in their abrupt or ambiguous endings, and others a bit more fleshed out. The collection really captured me with a story 47 pages in, Little Reaper. The stories get stronger, more impactful, but always her writing is excellent. I am absolutely in love with Delphine and Lavinia, her less fleshy characters (literally) and hungrily wait for more of their exploits. Algee handles multiple genres and eras with ease, whether killer, creature or body horror, sci-fi, turn-of-the-20th century or futures near and far. Pick up a copy and look up some of her audio dramatizations as well, you won’t be disappointed.

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Movie Lover

Like a Shiv to the Ribs

Reviewed in the United States on July 14, 2020

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These short stories, sometimes called flash fiction, draw blood in ways that longer, more involved stories can't--they cut you quickly and are gone before you realized what's happened. They seem to gather a cumulative, almost novelistic power as they go on, and you realize there's been a wonderfully subtle world-building taking place, a sensibility that snowballs onto itself and bowls you over in before you have a chance to react. Monsters become sympathetic, people are revealed to be monsters, and the whole effect is one of a masterful new sensibility at work. This is what good horror is all about. I can't wait to see where Algee goes next. Highly recommended.

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S. P. Miskowski

Horror with teeth

Reviewed in the United States on October 6, 2020

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Often I read (and write) stories containing horror elements, stories I wouldn't quite classify as horror but rather as ghost stories or eerie fiction. The stories in this collection qualify unapologetically as horror. Horror with teeth. Horror that grabs readers from the first paragraph and thrusts them into action already in progress. Horror written in blood, under a night sky glittering with menace. Highly recommended.

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