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This World Belongs to Us: An Anthology of Horror Stories about Bugs Kindle Edition

by Cynthia Pelayo (Author), Kealan Patrick Burke (Author), Paula D. Ashe (Author), Format: Kindle Edition
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THIS WORLD BELONGS TO US is an anthology of horror stories about bugs, writ large—we’re not scientists, so spiders and slugs and scorpions (oh my!) are in here too. A child pays for a thoughtless action for the rest of her life. A lothario mistreats the wrong woman. A hunter tracks a horrifying monster to the edge of reality. Space larvae learn to be human. An influencer hawks this year’s most popular accessory. A prisoner in solitary makes a new friend. And more, and more. This collection will terrify you with nineteen stories about the creepy-crawlies that were here before us and will be here long after we’re gone.

Featuring stories by Bram Stoker Award winner Kealan Patrick Burke, Bram Stoker Award nominees Paula D. Ashe, Laurel Hightower, Cynthia Pelayo, and V. Castro, plus Octavia Cade, Felix I.D. Dimaro, Jaclyn Youhana Garver, Rowan Hill, C.B. Jones, Bitter Karella, Gwen Katz, R.M. Kidd, J.A. Prentice, Bert SG, David Simmons, Yvette Tan, and Kay Vaindal as well as a major rediscovery—John B.L. Goodwin’s 1946 story “The Cocoon,” one of the creepiest stories ever written but out of print for more than 40 years.

Edited by Michael W. Phillips Jr.
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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0BZ2MW4ZG
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ From Beyond Press (May 23, 2023)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ May 23, 2023
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 10693 KB
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  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 275 pages
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  1. Bert SG

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    Bert SG grew up in a trailer park, escaped to the wild, and survived several decades as a painter, musician, and troublemaker. He currently spends his days herding cats and hoarding VHS tapes in the greater Kansas City area.

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    Hailed by BOOKLIST as “one of the most clever and original talents in contemporary horror,” Kealan Patrick Burke was born and raised in Ireland and emigrated to the United States a few weeks before 9/11. Since then, he has written five novels, among them the popular southern gothic slasher KIN, and over two hundred short stories and novellas, including PEEKERS, SOUR CANDY and THE HOUSE ON ABIGAIL LANE, all of which have been optioned for film.

    A five-time Bram Stoker Award-nominee, Burke won the award in 2005 for his coming-of-age novella THE TURTLE BOY, the first book in the acclaimed Timmy Quinn series.

    As editor, he helmed the anthologies NIGHT VISIONS 12, TAVERNS OF THE DEAD, and QUIETLY NOW, a tribute anthology to one of Burke’s influences, the late Charles L. Grant.

    Most recently, he adapted his work to comic book format for four volumes of John Carpenter’s TALES FOR A HALLOWEEN NIGHT series of anthologies and contributed a short story to Mike Mignola and Christopher Golden’s HELLBOY: AN ASSORTMENT OF HORRORS. He is currently at work on a new novel, MR. STITCH.

    Kealan is represented by Merrilee Heifetz at Writers House.

    He lives in an unhaunted house in Ohio with a Scooby Doo lookalike rescue pup named Red.

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wytwave
5.0 out of 5 stars A Fantastically Varied Horror Anthology Full of Talent and Entertainment
Reviewed in the United States on November 27, 2023
The best horror anthology I've read for a while, This World Belongs to Us is packed with unique stories that celebrate the incredible variety which horror can offer, and doing so while working hard (in the best way possible) to make readers' skins crawl. From the opening story on, I was superbly aware that I shouldn't be reading this book at night--or even outside in the Florida fall where the simplest of bugs could relate to the book and set off my imagination.

What makes this anthology so strong, though, isn't just the writing, which is superb. The variety of approaches these authors took to their subject matter, and the way each story added another layer of horror and bugginess, made me anxious to turn forward to each new story. Too often, anthologies have so many stories of the same tone or with similar themes, so that after a while things become repetitive even if the stories themselves would have shined on their own. Here, there's so much fun to be had in exploring the various bugs, themes, tones, and approaches, I absolutely adored the book, and I'm going to look forward to reading more anthologies from From Beyond Press. Additionally, although I enjoyed this whole work far too much to name favorite stories, this little anthology has given me quite a few new authors to look out for!

Absolutely recommended to horror lovers.
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David Simmons
5.0 out of 5 stars Bugs
Reviewed in the United States on December 21, 2023
There is a story in here called The Seventh Instar by Kay Vaindal about a rich dude with an alien bug in his ear that prefers green house gasses and Venus-like environments so it control the dude into drilling for oil and fracking and messing up the environment so earth can be more comfortable. Coolest idea ever.
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Milt Theo
5.0 out of 5 stars A high-profile anthology, superbly edited, morbidly fascinating, with bugs galore!
Reviewed in the United States on May 23, 2023
I was sold the moment I saw 'bugs' in the title! However, I have to admit straightaway that I expected gore, body horror, gross insects and other such niceties found in the bug horror genre. I found almost nothing of the sort: the emphasis is elsewhere - yes, the authors are obsessed with moths, butterflies, spiders, leeches, but insects are there to tell a story; the stories are seldom about bugs per se. This elevates the anthology into a work addressed to everyone, not just bug lovers.

The sheer diversity of the stories -horror, dark fantasy, sci fi, romance- is astounding. All the tales are brimming with originality (ok, perhaps not all; V. Castro's contribution I found a bit too familiar, though with great imagery), atmosphere, suspense, and full of creepy situations. Some of my pleasure is biased; how can you not enjoy a Kealan Patrick Burke story, or a tale by Laurel Hightower or Cynthia Pelayo? All three contributions held my interest from start to finish, horror fiction at its best. But the stories I loved and immensely enjoyed were some of the ones opening and some of the ones closing the anthology: C.B. Jones' "In This House, Spiders Are Our Friends" combined a child's mentality with arachnid loving, and turned both on their head; "Blue-Eyed Pearls" by Gwen C. Katz, a found-footage type of story, was absolutely brilliant, as videos, articles, and parts of TEDx talks are used to tell a disturbingly creepy tale of ancient bugs taking over the world; "Glock Dookie" by David Simmons employs prison slang and shocking imagery to offer a unique story, unlike anything of its ilk; and, of course, John B.L. Goodwin’s 1946 story “The Cocoon,” out of print for more than 40 years, was neither predictable nor repetitive, with great attention to detail; being about a negligent parent and his bug loving son, it manages to create a sinister atmosphere in great style, offering entomological horror with the best of them!

In sum, this is a high-profile anthology, superbly edited, morbidly fascinating, with bugs galore... with enough insect doom for everyone!
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luna13darke
4.0 out of 5 stars Bugs...
Reviewed in Canada on November 23, 2023
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I really enjoyed this anthology because I love bugs. The stories are imaginative, creepy, and the following 3 are brilliant.
~A Confession Of Earwigs by Paula D Ashe
~Attaboy by Kealan Patrick Burke
~The Butterfly Catcher by Jaclyn Youhana Garver
Glorious!
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