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Careful With That Axe
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A Horror Collection by David Schembri was my first read for 2019 and an excellent start to the year with its dark selection of short stories, flash fiction, and poetry. The opening story, The Unforgiving Court, is a showstopper, a supernatural holocaust tale, at once a metaphor and also absurdly real. Highly relevant even today, the story is brutal, its desolation rendered even more poignant by a moment of connection between enemy characters. Other favourites include cautionary tale, Severed, and Atlantica, a historical creature feature so vivid that it leaps off the page-proof that Schembri has done his research well. Of the poems, the eponymous, Beneath the Ferny Trees resonated for me with its ominous twist on the Riding Hood fable. Interior art, also by Schembri, is spectacular and deserves a gallery exhibition in its own right. This is definitely a collection to savour.- Lee Murray
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
288
Release Date:
2026-01-14
Publication Date:
2026-01-14
Publisher:
North Forest Books
Languages:
Original:
English
ISBN10:
1764491904
ISBN13:
9781764491907
Weight:
349 g
Height:
127 cm
Width:
203 cm
Thickness:
17 cm
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