It’s incredible how much a single book can change your life.
True crime can be a gateway to the horror genre. My parents weren’t excited about their child reading up on serial killers, but I think they hoped I might grow up to be a cop.
Then I stumbled across John Douglas (a pioneer in criminal profiling) and everything changed.
The books I had read before were like slasher flicks in written form: Here’s this monster. Here’s what he did. Isn’t it creepy?
John Douglas, however, made the victims human. He made the monsters human, too.
Reality swaggered into my childhood that day. I now know that everyone and anyone could be a killer. (And maybe that nice old librarian got away with it.)
In Volume.19, we present three stories of books wreaking destruction. A woman can’t resist a mysterious tome in Ron Ripley’s Bound with Love. In Bring Me Secrets by Bronson Carey, the promise of knowledge comes at a high price. And David Longhorn’s By the Book weaves a tale of fictional murders becoming horrifically real.
It only takes a little bit of knowledge to shatter our sense of safety. And you can find a whole lot of knowledge between the pages of a book.
Careful reading, everyone.
Other volumes in the series:
- Short Horror Stories Volume 1
- Short Horror Stories Volume 2
- Short Horror Stories Volume 3
- Short Horror Stories Volume 4
- Short Horror Stories Volume 5
- Short Horror Stories Volume 6
- Short Horror Stories Volume 7
- Short Horror Stories Volume 8
- Short Horror Stories Volume 9
- Short Horror Stories Volume 10
- Short Horror Stories Volume 11
- Short Horror Stories Volume 12
- Short Horror Stories Volume 13
- Short Horror Stories Volume 14
- Short Horror Stories Volume 15
- Short Horror Stories Volume 16
- Short Horror Stories Volume 17
- Short Horror Stories Volume 18
See you in the shadows,
Sara Clancy