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Weird Tales of Horror

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21 Tales and Poems of Weird Horror spanning centuries and continents, but always disturbing closeWhat stirs from yonder gloomy crypt?What really happened during the Cold War’s Space Race?Can a king’s spirit be trapped in a violin?A lost chapter of Hemingway’s Paris years relates to what strange creature of the night?How do you kill a Tengu Lord?What horror did U.S. service men see during the first gulf war while in the deep desert of Arabia that was NOT man made? Does hazing happen at Area 51?And gunfighter Porter Rockwell tangles with supernatural surprises throughout the Old West."With these tales of many lands and many peoples, David J. West combines an excellent prose style with a brilliant imagination to give us a solid collection of wonderful stories. This is a refreshingly original gathering of weird fiction." --W. H. Pugmire"David J. West, author of 'Heroes of the Fallen', is a strong voice in the field of Sword & Sorcery. His work is evocative, featuring deftly drawn characters, exotic locales and energetic tale spinning." Anthologies Anthologies & Short Stories Horror
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Excellent! This writer is a real talent ! There was an amazing writer who was in H. P . Lovecraft’s literary circle of writers who sent their stories to pulp magazines in the 20’s & 30’s, his name was Robert E. Howard. You might know him better as the man who invented CONAN. Robert created the “swords & sorcery” genre mixing barbaric action with supernatural characters, places, and creatures. Like Howard, David West writes S&S supremely as in the last tale of this book. Plus he can change over to Western genres with the supernatural just as Robert E. Howard did. All that has to happen now is for David West to keep writing and getting better with each look. I can’t wait! Excellent book!

The new Robert E. Howard !

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Stories were good but the AI reading I greatly dislike , I need the warm and emotion a real voice lends to the story

The AI reading is terrible

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I personally couldn't get past the virtual voice to enjoy the story. Due to the dull placement of words which show know true reflection of human feelings its hard become connected with characters that lack emotion so virtual voice narration is not for me.

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I loved that so many of these stories took elements from cultures, whose horror stories I don’t get to hear as much. 

Fun Collection of Tales

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The virtual voice takes away from each and every story. You need inflection you need emotions. Without it you get a 30 something reading the Bible like a 5 year old out loud while watching cartoons. Now, there is one decent actors voice used for AIVV, but it’s not this one or the girl. They are just just horrible. Don’t get me wrong, this actors voice is nice but he’s a damn robot. The girl…ugh! Just horrendous. Sounds like she gasped helium right before every non emotional supposed emotional part and then decided to just say “screw it” and completely give up on life itself. It’s like we just fell back to 2000 virtual voice. The stories aren’t too bad well, some of them are very bad but most are good. The Garden story is “gag me with a spoon!” I hope the story wasn’t that poorly written. I can see this site messing up the editing like other stories that past authors and listeners have complained about. But hey, I’m splitting hairs, some of the stories are good on their own. So yeah, enjoy if you can. That is if you can get through AIVV3000 vocal prowess.

AI bad. No more AI Voice PLEASE!

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