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Pray Lied Eve 3: Tales of the macabre and untoward

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A great collection of short horror stories perfect for reading late at night

Pray Lied Eve 3: Tales of the macabre and untoward is an anthology of seven short stories mostly falling into the horror category. This is the third entry into the series but it's not necessary to have read the previous books in order to enjoy this one.


Like all short story collections there are some stories that work better than others but each one here is an enjoyable read. Most of them have at least some gore in them but if you are a regular horror reader it won't be anything you are not used to reading.


One of the strongest stories comes at the beginning in Wormwoods Final Cut in which a young woman hears something strange in an old film projector. She's not the only one to hear it and it just gets more horrifying from there. Also extremely memorable is Grave Marginalia where a quiet library is disturbed when the staff finds a collection of books that contain things that definitely don't belong in books. Stake is a quite short tale but it pulls off the story very well in a short amount of time. Fading Applause in Quintland is probably the story that works least in this collection but it's still an interesting entry and worth reading.


Overall, if you are a fan of short stories, especially ones with a horror or supernatural theme of any kind you're likely to find at least one good story here.

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About the author

Lydia Peever is a horror author living in Ottawa. Her debut novel, Nightface, was published in 2011 and short stories have appeared in Postscripts To Darkness, Dark Moon Digest, For When The Veil Drops, Memento Mori, The Wicked Library, and her small collections, Pray Lied Eve 1 and Pray Lied Eve 2. view profile

Published on October 21, 2021

20000 words

Contains mild explicit content ⚠️

Genre: Horror

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