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Skeletons in the Closet & Other Creepy Stories Kindle Edition

by Cheryl Kaye Tardif (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
3.6 3.6 out of 5 stars 23 ratings
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Thirteen stories take you from one hold-your-breath chapter to the next.

Stories include:

A Grave Error
The Death of an Old Cow
Maid of Dishonor
Atrophy
Picture Perfect
Sweet Dreams
Separation Anxiety
The Car
Deadly Reunion
Remote Control
Ouija
Caller Unknown
Skeletons in the Closet

If you are a fan of Stephen King's short story collections, you'll enjoy this creepy collection by bestselling suspense author Cheryl Kaye Tardif.

BOOKLIST calls Cheryl Kaye Tardif "a name to reckon with south of the border."
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About the Author

Cheryl Kaye Tardif is an award-winning, international bestselling Canadian suspense author. Her novels include Submerged, Divine Justice, Children of the Fog, The River, Divine Intervention, and Whale Song, which New York Times bestselling author Luanne Rice calls "a compelling story of love and family and the mysteries of the human heart...a beautiful, haunting novel."
 
She is now working on her next thriller.
 
Cheryl also enjoys writing short stories inspired mainly by her author idol Stephen King, and this has resulted in Skeletons in the Closet & Other Creepy Stories (collection of shorts) and Remote Control (novelette eBook).
 
In 2010 Cheryl detoured into the romance genre with her contemporary romantic suspense debut, Lancelot's Lady, written under the pen name of Cherish D'Angelo.
 
Booklist raves, "Tardif, already a big hit in Canada...a name to reckon with south of the border."
 
Cheryl's website: cherylktardif.com
Official blog: cherylktardif.blogspot.com
Twitter: twitter.com/cherylktardif
 
You can also find Cheryl Kaye Tardif on Facebook, Goodreads, Shelfari and LibraryThing, plus other social networks.
 

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B003XKNG3W
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Imajin Books (November 19, 2013)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ November 19, 2013
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 997 KB
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  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 192 pages
  • Customer Reviews:
    3.6 3.6 out of 5 stars 23 ratings

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"ONE DOESN'T SIMPLY READ A TARDIF STORY, ONE EXPERIENCES IT!"

Dear reader:

I'm an international bestselling Canadian author who loves to say, "I kill people off for a living!" You can imagine the looks I get from people. Sometimes I'll tell them, "Fictitiously, of course. I'm an author." Sometimes I won't say anything; I'll let them wonder...

Booklist calls me "a big hit in Canada...a name to reckon with south of the border."

Born in Vancouver, BC, I was a "military brat" and a "military wife" who has lived all across Canada and in Bermuda. I now reside in West Kelowna, BC, with my husband Marc and our Pomeranian Princess, Chai.

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K. A. Smith
4.0 out of 5 stars Entertaining and a little macabre
Reviewed in the United States on July 14, 2011
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These short stories have been written over the last two decades and for a variety of purposes. Some have won awards while Caller Unknown, Deadly Reunion and Skeletons in the Closet are shorts that have never before been published or online.

In her introduction to the anthology Cheryl says

My greatest desire is to get your heart pounding, to make you jump when you hear a strange sound, and to give you at least one sleepless night. If I accomplish any of these, then I've done my job.

It is hard to say which of the stories I liked best. They were all very readable and many of them had great "hooks". Here are some examples:

A Grave Error

Myrtle Murphy had everything she wanted out of life: a dead husband, a grown son who'd moved to the opposite coast and neighbors who minded their own business. But what she didn't have was money. She needed a job. At sixty-one and living off a pittance of an early retirement pension, she had no skills to fall back on. Unless you could call slipping your husband small doses of rat poison in his evening tea for over a month a skill.

The Death of an Old Cow (Myrtle Murphy Mystery #2)

Myrtle Murphy had everything she wanted out of life: except her damned mother-in-law was still breathing. And that wasn't part of the plan. The bitch should have keeled over after drinking the three cups of tea laced with arsenic. Instead, she was passed out on the couch - snoring, of all things. And alive. Myrtle scowled. The nerve of her!

Deadly Reunion

I was just sitting down at my desk with a mug of nuked coffee and a week-old whole wheat bagel when the email arrived'the one that changed my life forever.

Caller

So now I'm an assassin. It's a job I'm good at. Hell, in this crappy economy, it's a job- period. Whenever I meet a potential client, there are no names exchanged. As far as they know, I have no name. I hand out silver-edged business cards that read: Pest Extermination Services of Toronto. P.E.S.T. for short. You won't find me in any phone book and the phone number on the card belongs to a throw-away cell phone.

So if you are looking for some entertaining quick reads, with macabre settings and endings, look no further.
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nightreader
5.0 out of 5 stars Creepy, quirky, a closet full of shivers and fun
Reviewed in the United States on April 27, 2012
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A variety of spooky short stories hanging in this closet. Some are intense, the stuff nightmares are made of, and some are much simpler, playing on the psyche. In reading these short stories, the first being a trilogy of terror, I felt that they increased in horror with each addition to the anthology. Cheryl Kaye Tardif wields her plots with a dexterity that creeps into our souls and lives on in our minds.

Ouija, one of the later stories, so touches home as to be both horrifying and comical in the same breath. So many have had disconcerting moments with Ouija boards and this is quite typical of some of the legends surrounding it. I think I enjoyed Ouija and Remote Control best of this little crop of horrors with their quirky touches of humour, but the final story will chill you to the bone in its delivery! A wonderful crop of terrifying nightmares come to life, emphasizing how we so often enjoy being scared that we go out of our way to have campfire ghost stories. Well, these should give you a enough to keep you going for some time. Enjoy the shivers and always look over your shoulder...you never know who or what is lurking around you!
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Meganne
3.0 out of 5 stars Okay
Reviewed in the United States on December 21, 2012
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I purchased this as I have read and enjoyed the author before. Also I quite like short stories as you can read an entire story while in a waiting room, on a short plane trip etc. Some stories were more enjoyable than others but it served its purpose. Not up to the usual standard of this author though.
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Abigail
1.0 out of 5 stars Unimpressed
Reviewed in the United States on August 4, 2012
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unimpressive. I love horror books and stories and in the introduction it said "My author idol, Stephen King, gave...etc" i was excited that the inspiration behind the stories was an amazing author. However the stories were predicable and uninteresting.
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Robin Kill
4.0 out of 5 stars It was fun~
Reviewed in the United States on December 17, 2013
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Not the BEST Tardif book I have read! I LOVE the book called "Children of the Fog" by Cheryl Tardif...BUT it is nice sometimes to be able to read a short story in one sitting and just have fun with it.... Not to have to invest a lot of time and thought in the reading so to speak. I did not pay much for this! So at this time of year (Christmas) it was worth having a little something to read whenever in the mood to read...it was just nice to sit down...get one whole story done...and then get back to my kind of "Christmas chores!" So I did have fun with it. Easy reading. Doesn't need a lot of time invested.....and on stories that got one hooked, one could finish the story quickly. Not bad. Just kind of for fun.
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James S. Hoch
5.0 out of 5 stars Move over King and Barker
Reviewed in the United States on April 9, 2012
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Ms. Tardif knows how to scare you and she does it very well in her collection of short stories. I've always thought that the horror genre does extremely well in the short story form as evidenced by Poe, King and Barker. In this collection, you will find some crafty, original stories that keep you turning the pages. There are also some stories that are reminiscent of Twilight Zone and Rod Serling who I believe was one of the great creepy short story writers. I look forward to future "Skeleton's in the Closet" from Ms. Tardif.
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mescha loy
4.0 out of 5 stars Four Stars
Reviewed in the United States on September 17, 2015
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Started out a little slow and then bam your in.
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Robert MacLean
5.0 out of 5 stars Thrillers with a Comic Touch
Reviewed in the United States on October 2, 2011
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When I started reading these stories I thought they were supposed to be tense thrillers--and they are!--but why was I laughing? In some of them there's a laugh on every page. It has to do with the dash of of sadism in the brew. But then Hitchcock said that his own thrillers were close to comedies. Cheryl Kaye Tardif's writing is as insolent and direct as Bukowski's. Ladies and gentlemen, a very sarcastic lady!
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caz
4.0 out of 5 stars some pretty good short stories for Halloween
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 25, 2014
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These don't take long to read so ideal if you want to just give yourself a quick scare coming up to Halloween. Well written with some good twists too.
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kaffeekenner
5.0 out of 5 stars Tolle neue Autorin, aber nur 121 Seiten Stories
Reviewed in Germany on July 25, 2013
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Durch Anthologien auf Chery Kaye Tardif aufmerksam geworden, habe ich mir ihre Kurzgeschichtensammlung gekauft. Die 13 (kurzen) Stories sind wirklich gut, aber der Käufer muss sich damit abfinden, dass auf Seite 121 (!!!!) bereits die Geschichten enden. Die restlichen 50 Seiten sind mit einem Auszug aus ihrem ebenfalls bei Amazon erhältlichen Taschenbuch "Children of the fog" gefüllt. Das ist dann für den Preis von ca. 7 EUR schon eine Frechheit vom Verlag!
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Rebecca
3.0 out of 5 stars Good
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 3, 2013
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This book is good, I would recommend other people to read it and see for them selfs if you like the book
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