We Are Where the Nightmares Go and Other Stories
C Robert Cargill
Rave
Positive
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Pan
We Are Where the Nightmares Go and Other Stories
C Robert Cargill
Rave
Positive
Mixed
Pan
Rave
Positive
Mixed
Pan
In We Are Where The Nightmares Go, he has assembled 10 short horror stories that cover the territory of fear from Virginia to Iraq to Australia, that whipsaw back and forth between the classic and the very modern. He has ghost stories and supernatural thrillers, a gore-porn short-short with a surprising, gentle twist.
In the best stories, Cargill puts atypical narrators in moral dilemmas, from a veteran punishing sinners in the afterlife for a chance at redemption to a suicide bomber recruited to mark one-million people for death. The final novella, set in the world of Dreams and Shadows (2013), will please that novel’s fans with more about the origin of its character, Colby. Cargill’s rich language, excellent ear for dialogue, and gritty yet fantastical settings are on display here..
This collection...is filled with the darkest of dark fantasy. With one exception, the stories are horror with a supernatural or magic realism bent.
Not all of the tales work.