Terrica single work   novella   horror  
Issue Details: First known date: 2015... 2015 Terrica
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    y separately published work icon Slander Hall Matthew Tait , Austin : HodgePodge Press , 2015 20565010 2015 selected work novella short story horror

    'Fifteen years ago the affluent gated-community of Slander Hall was the setting of the largest mass suicide in U.S. history; dozens of men and women committing the ultimate sacrifice and embracing the covenant of their leader to shed their bodies for a life in outer space. Now a modern ghost town, it boasts only the decaying and derelict phantoms of a withered populace. Cedar Jarrell, sole survivor of the holocaust that claimed so many, returns to the dark heart of Slander Hall on a final pilgrimage where not all who take the journey will survive…

    'Also included in this second edition are two more tales – stories that put the reader into a disturbing world of lunacy and paranoia that could be just around the corner for any of us. In Doll Steak, an average man is trapped within a room of sinister dolls and quickly learns that staring into the abyss only amplifies his worst fears. With Terrica, Matthew Tait invites you to a small town where vehicular manslaughter is a way of life ... and highways are a preying ground for monsters.'

    Source: Publisher's blurb.

    Austin : HodgePodge Press , 2015
    pg. 95-130
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