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"Without a doubt, Christi Nogle is one of my favorite new voices in horror. Her fiction is by turns devastating, horrifying, and beyond beautiful. With her collection, The Best of Our Past, the Worst of Our Future, she's created something truly remarkable, the kind of horror that's filled with grit…
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Christi Nogel is a rising star of the horror genre and The Best of Our Past, The Worst of Our Future brings together a number of her excellent, intriguing, and tantalizing short stories for the first time.
The author excels at creating tense atmospheres – fear, creeping dread (a particular favourite of mine), suspense, tension, and overall unease. Here are worlds out of synch with each other. Here are beings searching for something; anything they can make sense of. In these stories you will meet the Gothic, the haunted, and the dystopian.
There are twisted personalities – and there are…
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On locked ward 5C4, Josh, a patient with many similarities to Jesus, is hospitalized concurrently with Nick, a patient with many similarities to Santa. The two argue…
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