![]() ![]() He'll set you up for powerful or disturbing themes and fantasy and switch to brutal realism. You think he's going for a gross out and he'll level you with emotional weight. Even when I knew what was going to happen next, Fracassi 's stories had a way of slipping past the defences and nailing me in the chest. And that's the biggest compliment I can give to a piece of strange or horror fiction. I was pulling away from some of these stories touching my lip and counting stars. When his stories hit, they hit really hard and they draw blood. Mamma mia.įracassi reminds me of Harlan Ellison. ![]() Scrub that unicorn from my fevered, NyQuil drenched brain. It goes from a wedding caught in the eye of an emotional (and literal) storm, to the worst (or best) timed marriage proposal in history, alien invaders looking to change us for the better, Lovecraftian Soda served whether you like it or not and the most disturbing unicorn, ever. This collection has a ton of impressive works. Last night I finished Beneath a Pale Sky in 2 hours. I picked up Behold the Void on a recommendation, finished it in a single sitting. I'm sick as a dog, so I don't got the energy to write a long critique, but I gotta give credit where it's due. Philip Fracassi's short fiction is some of the best I've ever read and I've read a lot. It goes from a wedding caught in the eye of an emotional (and literal) storm, Head's up. The supernatural intrudes upon a wedding a pier becomes the site of tragedy a collapsed building is only the start of the nightmare for those trapped in the ruins a scientist who makes the discovery of a lifetime, only to find out that what he's unearthed has dire consequences not only for himself, but for all of mankind.more ![]() These stories will bury you in the rubble of an earthquake, pull back the veil on a soul's journey into the afterlife, and turn a small Midwestern town into the secret domain of cross-dimensional gods.Ĭombining old-school horror with the modern weird, Philip Fracassi will take you places you've never been before, and show you sights you won't soon forget. These stories will bury you in the rubble of an earthquake, pull back the veil on a soul's journey into the afterlife, and turn a small Midwestern town into the secret doma Beneath a Pale Sky collects eight stories of horror, including two original novelettes, that will take you from the high-security ward of a mental hospital to the top of a Ferris Wheel on an ocean pier. Beneath a Pale Sky collects eight stories of horror, including two original novelettes, that will take you from the high-security ward of a mental hospital to the top of a Ferris Wheel on an ocean pier. ![]()
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