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Love, Death, and Other Inconveniences: Collection of Horror Stories (Haunted Library) by [Tobias Wade, Rona Mae, David Maloney, Grant Hinton, Blair Daniels, S.H. Cooper, Hayong Bak, P. Oxford, J.P. Carver, J.D. McGregor, Jesse Clark, Kyle Alexander, J Speziale, Leo Bigio, Jake Healey, Tara A Devlin, P. F. McGrail]

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Thriller, horror, and romantic suspense stories from multiple award-winning authors.

Ever start a relationship with a guy and think he's a little too perfect?

That's probably because he's a shape-changing serial killer.

Or how about when you got stood up on that tinder date and go home disappointed, only to realize it was all a trick so he'd know where you live?

Then there's those letters your dead wife keeps writing you...

There can be no light without darkness, pleasure without pain, or love without loss. 17 authors have teamed up to collect all our favorite supernatural and psychological horror stories about love.

Jealous murders, monstrous doppelgangers, heart-rending romances, devils and angels, cannibals and virtual worlds - over 350 pages of your most desperate longings and worst nightmares all rolled into one. Shocking twists and absolute mind-fuckery will thrill and terrify you to the last page!

Great way to discover more authors in the horror genre.

Excerpt: (An account of Hell)

There are two kinds of pain which I had come to expect from the world of the living: the physical, and the emotional. Never had I experienced a physical pain so excruciating as the boils which began to swell across my body, nor a mental burden as debilitating as the taunting echoes which sneered at me from the living tissue beneath my feet. Every good memory of my life was poisoned against me, and each shame and guilt was magnified a thousand times over by the leering specters which narrated my ordeals with intimate knowledge and exaggerated effect.

Worse than either was the spiritual pain I endured however, the gnawing hopeless depression which robbed even my sense of self. I was not a person in Hell; I was Hell. I did not feel pain; I was pain-inseparable and indistinguishable. It was then, in the lowest reduction of my humanity as I crawled across the putrid ground in a trail of my own ruptured boils, that she took pity on me.

Gentle hands shed my skin from me; not as a torment, but a release. My disfigured limbs were cut away by her flashing knife, each slice bringing a pain so pure and clean that I welcomed it without question. Layer by layer she flayed me until at last there was nothing left to cut but my soul. Again it is difficult to describe her without the reliance of my mortal senses now stripped from me, but if you understood me when I told you that I was pain, you will understand again when I tell you she was beauty.

-I'm in Love with the Devil's Wife

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Editorial Reviews

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What can I say about this book other than enthralling. When I first starting reading this book I could tell that all the authors who wrote these stories are just so passionate about what they do. Every story in this book pulled on my heart-strings, in many different ways.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B079CS1TK2
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Haunted House Publishing LLC (February 6, 2018)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ February 6, 2018
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 5133 KB
Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Print length ‏ : ‎ 292 pages
Lending ‏ : ‎ Enabled

Best Sellers Rank: #438,952 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #402 in Horror Anthologies (Kindle Store)
- #597 in Occult Occultism
- #792 in Horror Short Stories

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Tara A. Devlin
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Tara A. Devlin spent the first two-thirds of her life living in Australia, the next third living in Japan, and now finally resides in Europe. When she's not procrastinating on the internet or looking after her two cats she enjoys horror and pew pew movies. You can find her collection of horror and fantasy writings at taraadevlin.com.
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David Maloney is short story writer living iin China. He began his writing career by publishing short stories online, where he quickly amassed a fanbase of several thousand people that follow his work. He believes that learning is a lifelong process, and he enjoys expanding his knowledge wherever possible. He speaks Mandarin Chinese, but not always well.
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Jody

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Reviewed in the United States on June 26, 2021

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I like the short story books and this is one of the best I've read in a long time....new material not just new twists on old tales

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Juliet M. Montes

Love,death

Reviewed in the United States on October 22, 2018

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This was a great book one of the best recommend everyone to get this book really entertainment I will be getting more from these great authors

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Kira

Buy this book!

Reviewed in the United States on May 29, 2018

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A wonderful array of stories! Mystery, murder, monsters, and more! I love the different styles of each of the authors. It’s nice to get such a large sampling in one book.

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Kenn Goodrich

Four Stars

Reviewed in the United States on March 4, 2018

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Better then I could have thought.. must read..

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David C. Wood

Dont miss this collection

Reviewed in the United States on March 27, 2018

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Every story rocked! Very literate and engaging.

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H. Grove (errantdreams)

It has a few issues!

Reviewed in the United States on April 20, 2020

Normally when I review anthologies, I end up pointing out that one reason it’s tough for a multi-author anthology to get a 5 out of 5 is because it’s difficult for every single story to appeal to any given reader, which means most anthologies get a 4 out of 5. In the case of Love, Death, and Other Inconveniences: Collection of Horror Stories, it’s the other way around. Some stories are bound to appeal to any given reader, so that kept the rating at a 3 out of 5 instead of going lower. Honestly, I’m not really sure why this is labeled as a horror anthology. Quite a few of these are really drama rather than horror. Still, there are a few good horror stories in here.

The opening story, Blair Daniels’s “Let Me In,” is one of my two favorite stories in this collection (yeah, it’s not a good sign when I can only label two stories as favorites). It’s a beautiful little nugget of horror surrounding a mysterious break-in at a house. My other favorite is P. Oxford’s “Some Smells Shouldn’t Be Ignored,” in which an artist who just moved in with her boyfriend hears rats in the walls, and then starts to smell something horrid. A short, chilling read. Both stories go just far enough for maximum chills, and leave all the right questions unanswered.

The editor of this anthology must really love stories about men whose girlfriends (or wives) die and then have to help them move on from beyond the grave, because there are a lot of variations on that theme in here (two of them are even by the same author, and there are three of them in a row). The women in most of these stories serve as nothing more than agents of change for the men they leave behind. Another theme is that women who are sexually aggressive often turn out to be monsters. We’re really racking up the bad female tropes here. There’s also a story in which a female scientist seemingly randomly decides to give her scientific subject the best sex ever because… why, exactly? There’s a story about “The Devil’s Wife” that has an intriguing setup, but again, it’s another story of female-solely-as-agent-of-male-change.

At least “Letters From My Dead Wife” handles the dead loved one in a very different and much more original manner than most of the other stories do. “A House of Only Memories” by J.P. Carver is another dead wife story that has a little more of interest to it than some of the earlier ones. Tara A. Devlin’s “Last Room of the Cave” is yet another dead-woman-as-agent-of-male-change, but at least it has a monster in it and a really interesting secret.

Many of these authors have two, three, or even four stories in here, and I don’t think that was a great idea. In many cases it seemed pretty obvious that one of an author’s stories was noticeably better than the other(s). I really liked J.D. McGregor’s “Mile High Club,” for instance, but his other two stories didn’t really do it for me. (I felt like one was mostly just weird, and the other elided over some details that were necessary to the story.) However, two stories that I thought were quite good were both by Hayong Bak, “My First Relationship Was My Craziest” and “My Wife and Her Baby Doll.” Both went in fascinating directions.

Note one major formatting error: there’s a long duplicated passage in the middle of Grant Hinton’s “The Desert Stars.” I definitely saw this story as more of a thriller than a horror story. Hinton’s “Looking for Love” (involving some Tinder dating) definitely fit the horror milieu.

A couple of otherwise-good stories gave us too-confusing endings. I don’t mind some ambiguity or unanswered questions, but it’s possible to take that too far. P. Oxford’s “My Boyfriend And I Were Taken” falls into this category, which is a shame, because otherwise it was a good story.

I’d say the anthology as a whole was just okay. Luckily it has a few individual stories that make me glad I read it anyway.

Content note: sex, mild gore, sex with produce, reference to off-screen rape, and one incidence of animal harm.

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This book is filled with beautifully written yet haunting short stories from a variety of ...

Reviewed in the United States on February 8, 2018

This book is filled with beautifully written yet haunting short stories from a variety of lesser known authors. I have followed several of these authors for years via online forums (mostly reddits /r/nosleep) and their own blogs, and am thrilled to see this collaboration published. It was fun for me to go through the stories and be able to recognize so many of my favorite writers by each unique style/voice without even needing to look at the Authors.

The stories span many sub-genres, from vivid otherworldly horror, to stories that are beautifully human and almost too close to home. There is something for everyone in here.

Each story is bite sized, yet packed with flavor. This would be a fabulous book to pick up to distract yourself one story at a time if you're the kind of person who has trouble finding the time or attention span to devote to a full length book. For those like me, it's a delight to read front to back in a sitting :)

I give it 4 stars instead of 5 simply because there are a handful of typos and misspellings peppered throughout the stories that should have been caught in editing. These minor imperfections are certainly not bad enough to distract from the stories themselves.

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Robert E. Nichols

Despite the title, this collection is anything but an inconvenience

Reviewed in the United States on February 14, 2018

This collection of horror stories offers a diverse enough collection that all fans of the genre will be able to find some gems within its pages.

I loved the previous collection of short stories from wade, though that one was a collection of stories entirely written by him. This collection, and many of the ones coming from him in the future, features a number of talented horror writers with their own unique voices. I've enjoyed the stories to varying levels, but I haven't disliked any of them, which speaks volumes for Wade's ability to compile a themed collection of quality stories. Though some may be considered cliche and treading familiar territory, I'm always much more concerned with the way an idea is presented, and all of the disturbing, macabre, and even hopeful (depending on how deep you are willing to dig into the stories) ideas in this collection are presented in an enjoyable way.

If I have one main criticism of the collection it's that there are a number of spelling and grammar errors I have come across that didn't seem to get caught in my copy. Overall, however, these are minimal. Considering the sheer amount of work that went into this compilation, I don't fault those errors, as I know that most will be found and fixed before too long.

I suggest this book to any fan of the horror genre, especially those who want a quality collection of stories from lesser known writers, but lack the time to dig through the plethora of stories on various forums and websites to find a good number of them.

Tobias Wade...with Love, Death and other Inconveniences...has done the work for you.

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Adam

Superb and varied collection from a generation of fresh new horror authors.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 2, 2018

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A great and varied collection of stories from a bunch of talented and fresh horror authors.

Personal favourites for me were the wonderfully unsettling 'Arranged marriage' the simple but hugely effective ' Let me in, the sad and chilling 'My wife's baby doll' and the extremely well written 'the desert stars' who would have though it was possible to combine my 2 favourite genres of Horror and Gangster?!

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