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Alphabet Soup: Horror Stories for the Tormented Soul (Haunted Library) by [Tobias Wade, David Maloney, Mr. Michael Squid, Ryan Cook, DoverHawk, Kyle Alexander, Grant Butler, Jack T. Anderson, M Higgins, Bak Hayong, Chris Thompson, Jacob Mandeville, J. Y., Marni Sue, Kaitlynn Cooney, Kelly Childress, Mikey Knutson, Noah Rex, John Buffalo, Harrison Prince, P. F. McGrail, H.G. Gravy]

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Thriller, horror, and suspense short stories.

Multiple Award-Winning authors.

A is for Addiction...
B is for Barnacles...
C is for Clairvoyance...

Discover the rest of these original horror stories from around the world. Each author chose a letter of the alphabet and was given complete artistic freedom to make something horrible happen. Some stories will be mysterious, others creepy or even profound, but all are crafted to thrill and terrify you to the last page.

This is what happens when dozens of uncensored creative people are allowed to mine the depths of the human psyche for the most depraved, twisted, horrible things imaginable.

Special edition with intricate full-page illustrations bring the stories to life!

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What it really meant was she was rotting away in a cage of her own flesh. The weight of her own body had crushed the flesh on her backside so that it had stopped circulating blood, had started to die. It meant that, after only twenty-six days of freedom, I had to go home and take care of her again. I came back to a familiar smell of piss and sweat and mold; but that was all mixed with a new taint, the sour and yet sickeningly-sweet smell of rotting flesh. She wasn’t in her usual chair. Instead, I found her collapsed on a mattress in a bedroom she hadn’t used for as long as I could remember, the springs creaking under her weight. She was dressed in a simple blue shirt, almost like a hospital gown, and lifting up the bottom edge, my eyes came level to where she was rotting.
- N is for Necrosis

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April 1, 2018
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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B07C94TXX2
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Haunted House Publishing LLC (April 1, 2018)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ April 1, 2018
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 5640 KB
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Print length ‏ : ‎ 292 pages
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Best Sellers Rank: #223,801 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #225 in Horror Anthologies (Kindle Store)
- #245 in Occult Occultism
- #389 in Horror Short Stories

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Zachary Bower

Gimmick belies an amazing story arc with rich lore & few duds, setting it apart from typical anthology collections.

Reviewed in the United States on April 11, 2018

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Originally a compilation of r/nosleep stories, I knew I had to snatch it up when I saw it. The "soup" proved surprisingly interesting, with subsequent writers building off of old stories and evolving a continuity over time. As such, the story gets more interesting over time, as you start to piece together how things connect. Of course, the style ranges with so many different authors, but there's an element of quality throughout--evidently, it was mostly the more accomplished writers who worked on it.

Still, the collection isn't without a couple downsides. While the ending is satisfying overall, I can't help but feel it raised a few too many new questions of its own, and it's pretty much impossible to bring so many different stories and authors together without having a few that make your eyes roll. The ones that caught my eye were the K story, for failing to cover its cheesiness by lampshading it, and the "&" story, which as you might expect, feels very much out of place with almost nothing to do with the main story--it's pretty much a basic Ritual Creepypasta--despite coming between a piece of comic relief and the final stretch. But with those being my only major complaints across a 27-story compilation, I feel it more than earns its 4 stars.

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Matt C.Top Contributor: Pets

Doesn't work as a whole

Reviewed in the United States on September 29, 2020

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The book has a decent premise: it's written by a bunch of different authors; (26?) each one taking a letter of the alphabet, and writing a scary story. The PROBLEM is that this book is written by a bunch of different authors; (26?) each one taking a letter of the alphabet, and writing a scary story. You know that old adage about "too many cooks in the kitchen;" this absolutely holds true here. This book is just confusing and muddled. Some of the stories play off of each other, and intertwine. Some of the stories are completely independent of all the rest. Some are well written. Some are pure dreck. Some are edited and devoid of grammatical and typographical errors. Some are chock full of distracting mistakes. It's just not a good book. It's all over the place, and I found myself losing interest pretty early in the alphabet.

Here's an example of a spot where I was just left scratching my head. (This isn't a spoiler, even though, I don't think this book CAN be spoiled, due to it's weird nature.)

"You've let the power get to your head Olivia."
"He gestured to a Blue Shirt who emerged from the shadows, bearing that ever hateful symbol her uniform. 'This woman, Olivia, will be taking over for you kids so you can help your friends in town,' he told us in a saccharine tone. After that, Olivia would exit town with no form of weapon on her, yet our town shook from the explosions she was no doubt the cause of."

So wait....Olivia is the protagonist in this particular story, with the story being told from her first person perspective. So, is the woman who will be taking over also named Olivia? Is he saying, "Olivia, this person will be taking over?" Or is it, "Olivia, Olivia, will be taking over?"

Turns out, I think, it's the last one. So, they're both named Olivia, and you find that out in the most bafflingly confusing way possible.

Just a weird read, and not one I'd like to do again. Some of the stories can be fleshed out into their own books, but as a hodge podge of short stories, this book falls flat.

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Kyle

Great, but not perfect!

Reviewed in the United States on September 14, 2018

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The stories themselves were great in this collection! I was happy with the way the authors managed to tie seemingly unrelated stories together. I did feel the ending was a bit of a cop-out, and pretty anti-climactic, but that's not what lost it the star in my review.

The reason I gave this collection a 4/5 was simple: grammar mistakes. There were a few stories that had pretty blaring grammar mistakes, such as words missing letters, incorrect punctuation, and even misspelled words. It's not a big deal, but it took my immersion out of the story whenever I saw it, which isn't ideal.

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MaryWesker

Mind Blowing!

Reviewed in the United States on April 6, 2018

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I absolutely loved this book! Chilling, well written, and just beautifully laid out. I've been an avid consumer of horror (psychological horror in particular) for nearly all of my 28 years and this has to be the BEST example of well thought out "smart horror" I've ever had the pleasure of experiencing. (I'm a sucker for endings I can't predict and stories that make me think. Gore fests are well and good but a story, or series of stories that can keep me hooked while having to piece the grand plot together like a puzzle is where its at for me.) as an avid reader of r/nosleep, I definitely recognized the quality of writing immediately (can't say I've read any mainstream horror authors as good as some of the folks who started on nosleep). If you're into psychological horror with a sprinkle of paranormal and conspiracy theories, this is the book for you. Thank you to all the authors who lent their talents here, from this very pleased horror junkie.

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Amber K

Decent book but glad I got it for free.

Reviewed in the United States on July 6, 2020

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I liked the premise of this book, and discovering how they began to interconnect means I will probably re-read this at some point.

I’m giving 3 stars instead of 4 because several of the stories needed to be edited further. Typos and sentences that need correction because of extra words or words out of order really have no place in any written work at this point. The stories themselves could also flow better together. I was expecting 26 individual short stories so the connection was unexpected and pretty cool. But they didn’t flow very well and a little effort to smooth that out (along with the regular editing) could even make this a 5 star book.

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Katrina Hale

Not one I would read again

Reviewed in the United States on February 19, 2019

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Some stories were good, some not, some didn't make sense at all. Overall I wouldn't tell my friends to read this. I read alot and enjoy books with short stories and enjoy horror and overall weird stories. A couple left me wanting for more and some I just wanted to end. Overall not one I'll keep in my collection.

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M. Dowden

Very Disappointing

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 21, 2020

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I will admit that when I downloaded this I was expecting something that would at least be okay, but alas this doesn’t even go that far, the graphics being the best bits of this anthology. In the foreword to this it is pointed out that this is hardly original, short stories written by different authors all centring around a particular theme, and indeed Charles Dickens et al were doing this back in the 19th Century.

Titled Alphabet Soup, perhaps Alphabet Poop would have been more apt for this collection, because for a start there is overall so many typos here. There are not that many actual spelling mistakes as such, but there are others including punctuation, nonsensical sentences, where some words have been repeated or added as well as words left out, plus on one occasion it looks like a whole sentence has been missed out. On top of this there are a number of times where the wrong word has been used to convey what the author is writing about, and even tenses mixed up. To be honest most of these mistakes would have been picked up by Word or similar programs, so what sort of software people writing these tales are using is anyone’s guess, and also some of the writers need to invest in a dictionary.

Anyway, with that out of the way we have stories that link together in one way or another and take in certain elements and themes so that this sort of meshes into a longer story. I must admit that nothing here is really that original and the vast majority of these are not even that well written, giving you perhaps a list of authors to avoid in the future. A few of these tales actually left me cringing because they were so poor, and even though I persevered until the end I think that this book may have been trying to take over my soul as it sucked the will to live out of me. If you are someone who really loves the horror genre, and not one of those people who just claim they do, then you will want to give this a miss, because you may just end up in tears at how dire this actually is.

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Louise886

Good collection of stories

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 20, 2020

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This is a collection of stories from a variety of authors. They are titled according to the letters of the alphabet.

Some of the stories are intertwined or hint at the other stories. Make sure you read it in order!

Some are great, some just ok. Overall a very good horror read. It is quite graphic in places so not for the faint hearted! There are quite a few grammatical and spelling errors which spoiled it in places for me. If you can overlook those you will enjoy it more.

Louise Gregory

Short stories cleverly intertwined.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 19, 2020

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Great short stories individually but with the added extra twist of very clever links throughout. Enjoyed every one and the book as a whole.

Izzy Fulton

Creepy Tales

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 15, 2018

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These short stories were good, I liked how they were linked together, didn't expect that, each story was interesting, different and very enjoyable

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susan park

Usual short stories

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 25, 2020

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I dont usually like short stories, by the time its get interesting the story is finished and this book was no exeception. I did however like how the stories weaved together especially at the end. Would i read again ? Probably not

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