{"product_id":"2940149071418","title":"The Shining Horrific: A Collection of Horror Stories - Volume I","description":"Author A.A. Garrison has a knack for horror, as this collection of stories attests. Not fitting comfortably in the realm of “psychological” or “intelligent” horror, his brand of the macabre falls into a subtler niche, one that might be considered “darkly radiant.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCall it “the shining horrific,” if you must have a label.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIncluded amongst these 23 tales:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDanger and ruin from a “free” gift (“The Briefcase”)\u003cbr\u003eA fearful father’s poisonous need (“Need”)\u003cbr\u003eInsomniac cat-and-mouse in the Appalachian foothills (“Insomnia”)\u003cbr\u003eA social club of the highest stakes (“War”)\u003cbr\u003eThe predatory love between a serial killer and his demon (“A Kind of Love”)\u003cbr\u003eAn accident victim and his imaginary friend, seeking vengeance (“Him”)\u003cbr\u003eA non-psychotic who finds himself the world’s last hope against “monsters” (“Monsters”)\u003cbr\u003eAn eight-year-old with a memory too keen for his own good (“Nothing Bad Has Ever Happened Here”)\u003cbr\u003eA priest led to divine murder in a heathen city (“One of Them”)\u003cbr\u003eA holiday with the darkest past (“Riottaba”)\u003cbr\u003eA man awakes to find himself hung in a strange cage in an even stranger place (“The Gibbet”)\u003cbr\u003eA downward spiral begun by an innocent beer (“Mistake”)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnd many more. Ranging from flash fiction to novelettes, from the quiet to the messy, from the everyday to the fantastic, the stories in ‘The Shining Horrific’ cover a diverse literary terrain, sure to please any audience.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNow, come explore that twilight country of the shining horrific ...","brand":"A.A. Garrison","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47169600946416,"sku":"2940149071418","price":4.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940149071418_p0.jpg?v=1763711687","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940149071418","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}