Paranormal Contact: A Quiet Horror Confessional by John Brhel

Paranormal Contact: A Quiet Horror Confessional Reviews

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  Sarah Huntington

  All great stories, all very well written. Very spooky and creepy. I had a few favorites but every story was fantastic and a good few have stayed wedged firmly in my mind, especially at night.....
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  Dale Robertson

  Alot of great stories in this collection - some stronger than others but all creepy. The fact they are told in first person makes it even more so, since it puts you in the main character's position - i always find that more scary. Good choice to have this as a prerequisite.
  
  Tense, foreboding horror this most definitely is.
  
  Give it a whirl.
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  Edward

  This was quiet good. Some stories scared the mrs. Enjoyed them all esp the first one
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  Kevin L

  I greatly enjoyed a majority of these stories - only a few were complete misses for me.
  
  The stories that I enjoyed the most were those where it felt like a friend was telling you about that ~weird~ experience they had that one time. They feel confessional or unburdening in nature and really connect with the reader.
  
  Less successful, for me, were the entries where it was clearly fiction and less understated.
  
  As long as you don’t need jump scares to enjoy a quiet horror story this is a great book.
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  Elford Alley

  A perfect quiet horror collection. Each story brings an eerie atmosphere and blurs the lines between truth and fiction. Like the best quiet horror, these stories unsettle you and stick with you long after you finish reading. Some tales in this anthology will scare you, while others will absolutely devastate you.
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  D

  This plethora of short, first-person creepy tales trades in the territory of the creepypasta, the brief (mostly) detour into the uncanny, the frisson of the thing half-glimpsed or half-heard, the blur between the reality and perception or memory of it. Many of them have superbly grabby openings ("My mother-in-law makes coffee at 1:30 every morning. She passed away three months ago, but the coffee keeps coming" from Rachel Derman's "Stay with Me") and vivid turns of phrase ("A tiny cottage with latticed windows and brittle gray bricks and ivy like dried nerves climbing the walls," from Jaqueline West's "Model Village"); some of them are blunter, and sometimes that works too: the rambling or unmusically-told anecdote that has all the more force because it's so anchored in the prosaic. Several of them interweave easily verifiable events, places, or people into their narrative; at least one asserts its non-fictionality. It's hard for me to pick standouts (most of them) and I'd feel mean-spirited calling out the ones that really didn't land for me (only a handful). A very strong collection overall.
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  Linda

  Good collection of stories, really enjoyed Rust Belt Requiescat.
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  Josiah

  Not horror unless you're a sissy
  
  Didn't even go past the 2nd story. They are weak and lacking anything that would be even close to anything related to horror