Don’t Let Them Get You Down (2022, Zagava).A Child Alone With Strangers (2022, Skyhorse).The short story "Death, My Old Friend", featured in this collection, was optioned in 2022 by Christopher Riggert for a feature film adaptation.
His 2021 collection of short stories, Beneath a Pale Sky, was nominated for the Bram Stoker Award for Best Fiction Collection. He has written multiple novels, screenplays, and short stories. Philip Fracassi is an American writer of horror, thriller, and science fiction. If you’re a fan of fast-paced ghost stories with a new twist, this book is definitely for you.American writer of horror, thriller, and science fiction There are other writers that do this very well, right now, after having read A Child Alone with Strangers and now Gothic I can say Fracassi does it better than most. There is the sense of exhilaration when you’re turning the page to see what happens and there is something even darker and more horrific on the next page. You’re right there, engrossed in the book from the first chapter and you don’t want to put it down until you’ve finished because each chapter makes you want to keep on reading. As a reader, you don’t have to read two or three chapters to get into the book. There is something happening in every chapter of Gothic. As the story goes on…not so much.Īnother thing Fracassi does as well as any writer out there is drag the reader through the story. From the very beginning I could understand and empathize with Tyson and his motivations at the beginning of the book. While I’m not yet a NY Times bestselling author with an agent receiving advances on my books, I do understand what it’s like to be a working writer day in and day out. One of the things I did like about this book was the character of Tyson. I knew next to nothing other than that there was a haunted desk. I don’t want to give too much away because I think it’s better to go into this book knowing very little about the plot. From there-as they usually do in horror novels-things devolve.
What neither Sarah nor Tyson realize is that the desk is haunted.
Tyson has been struggling to write a good novel and Sarah hopes the new deal will spark some new creativity in him. It’s that good.įor his birthday, famous writer Tyson Parks receives as a gift from his longtime girlfriend, Sarah, an antique desk. Gothic is on the list and I knew it would be there at about the halfway mark. It’s really hard for a book to get on that list. There are maybe 15 or 20 books on it out of the thousands I’ve read in my life that I consider to be all time favorites. I‘ve never written it down, but there is a list in my head of all of my favorite books on it. So while I was looking forward to his new novel Gothic, I had no idea how much I would enjoy it. I’ve enjoyed everything that I’ve read by him. I’ve always been a fan of Philip Fracassi’s work.
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