A Tale of Hell and Other Works of Horror (The Gillett Edition)

Summary

In this collection of published and previously unpublished stories of horror, Phil Slattery offers a look into the minds of people who perpetrate horrors, from acts of stupidity with unintended results to cold-hearted revenge to pure enjoyment to complete indifference. Settings range from 17th-century France in the heart of the werewolf trials to the Old West to the present and on to alien worlds in the distant future. The short stories contained include: A Tale of Hell: A man with anger issues has a nightmare of being in Hell. Dream Warrior: A young man intent on avenging his girlfriend's death learns the ancient ways of Aztec sorcery from his grandfather. Devil Star's Revenge: A cowboy suffers a horrendous fate after raping the daughter of a powerful Apache medicine man. Shapeshifter: An innocent, starving wolf believed to be a lycanthrope is pursued through a seventeenth-century French town in this black comedy of errors. Wolfsheim: A graduate student in 1970's West Germany researches his thesis on Hitler's Nazi Werewolves post-war resistance program in a remote Bavarian village. Hitchhikers: A newly married couple encounter two mysterious girls late one night while driving through a remote part of the Navajo reservation. Ivan: A young geek bullied by classmates dreams of being a serial killer. Sorcerer: A retired sorcerer named Jack Thurston in New Mexico revives his black arts to avenge the death of his daughter and grandchild in childbirth in horrific fashion. Under the Willow: Jack Thurston returns to New Mexico from living a dissolute life in Central America to help defend his simple, lovable brother against a neighborhood menace. Alien Embrace: An astronaut on a distant planet finds himself trapped in a horror-filled world trapped between dream, nightmare, and reality. This collection also includes three works of flash horror and two of horror microfiction.