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REVIEW: The Crawlspace (Darryl Dawson)
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The Crawlspace
Darryl Dawson
ISBN: 9781449010836
AuthorHouse
Reviewed By Renee Washburn
Official Apex Reviews Rating:
A twisted ice cream man puts a certain "special ingredient" in the frozen treats that he serves to unsuspecting children...a young couple visits a "puppet show" - the featured players of which are more lifelike than they could ever imagine...a teacher finally discovers the disturbing truth of a salacious urban legend - but may not live to share it...
Included among the thirteen short stories featured in The Crawlspace, the aforementioned tales of horror will - at the very least - shock, surprise, and unnerve you. Such is the goal of author Darryl Dawson in crafting his imaginative anthology - a goal he succeeds in reaching quite well.
Part suspense, part thriller, part macabre - and all gruesome - The Crawlspace is definitely not for the squeamish. In his wide variety of vignettes, Dawson pulls no punches in putting the darker, more sinister aspects of human nature on full display, all the while framing his tales in a disturbing realism sure to force the reader to take a cautionary step back in the face of their stark realistic potential. As loath as we may be to admit it, there are legitimately psychotic individuals breathing the same air and occupying the same space as we do every day, and we have no idea of the full depths to which their disturbia goes - but The Crawlspace certainly provides invaluable insight into the nightmarish realities lying just beneath their benign façade.
Raw and gritty - yet strangely fascinating - The Crawlspace offers a peek into the dark hearts and minds of what we can only hope is a very, very small minority of the greater human population.
Darryl Dawson
ISBN: 9781449010836
AuthorHouse
Reviewed By Renee Washburn
Official Apex Reviews Rating:
A twisted ice cream man puts a certain "special ingredient" in the frozen treats that he serves to unsuspecting children...a young couple visits a "puppet show" - the featured players of which are more lifelike than they could ever imagine...a teacher finally discovers the disturbing truth of a salacious urban legend - but may not live to share it...
Included among the thirteen short stories featured in The Crawlspace, the aforementioned tales of horror will - at the very least - shock, surprise, and unnerve you. Such is the goal of author Darryl Dawson in crafting his imaginative anthology - a goal he succeeds in reaching quite well.
Part suspense, part thriller, part macabre - and all gruesome - The Crawlspace is definitely not for the squeamish. In his wide variety of vignettes, Dawson pulls no punches in putting the darker, more sinister aspects of human nature on full display, all the while framing his tales in a disturbing realism sure to force the reader to take a cautionary step back in the face of their stark realistic potential. As loath as we may be to admit it, there are legitimately psychotic individuals breathing the same air and occupying the same space as we do every day, and we have no idea of the full depths to which their disturbia goes - but The Crawlspace certainly provides invaluable insight into the nightmarish realities lying just beneath their benign façade.
Raw and gritty - yet strangely fascinating - The Crawlspace offers a peek into the dark hearts and minds of what we can only hope is a very, very small minority of the greater human population.