100 Jolts: Shockingly Short Stories

100 Jolts: Shockingly Short Stories

This finalist for the Bram Stoker Award is a pioneering work in the flash fiction movement, collecting 100 minimalist tales of terror -- each horror story ranging from a few shocking sentences to only a few thought-provoking pages in length.

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About the Book

Released as a paperback in 2004 this ground-breaking collection is considered by many to be a pioneering work in the flash fiction movement. It broke publishing barriers to micro-fiction, inspired many authors, has been adapted to film and audio, and was also a finalist for the Bram Stoker Award. The expanded hardcover edition contains “Aftershocks,” a battery of newly added stories, as well as bonus writing prompts in an included reader’s/teacher’s guide, and a brand new Afterword.

100 Jolts actually features one hundred short shots of fiction guaranteed to stun. Arnzen has honed his craft to deliver the highest voltage using the fewest words. According to the author “Horror is the genre of the jolt, the shock, the spark. The horror story’s conflict is always a matter of life and death, but death…almost always comes too soon—that’s why we fear it.” And now readers have a new reason to be afraid. One hundred new reasons!

From the grotesque to the hilarious these bits of micro-fiction will keep you entertained long after you put the book down.

 

CLICK HERE to see the complete, lengthy table of contents.

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Genres: collection, Horror, Short stories
Tag: Raw Dog Screaming Press
Publisher: Raw Dog Screaming Press
Publication Year: 2004
Illustrator: Matt Sesow
ASIN: B00FEMB79M
ISBN: 9781933293295
List Price: 29.95
eBook Price: 4.99
Endorsements
“With great skill, Arnzen has honed each of these stories down to its essence. You often hear writers describe the story-writing process as a great labor in which each word has so much significance and impact that it must be chosen with a jeweler’s eye. Arnzen has refined that method to the point that every word is not just important, it’s pivotal. In these stories, single words convey worlds of meaning. Arnzen could probably find a way to scare us with punctuation…Time may thaw the plot, but it doesn’t diminish the impact these tales have. Some of them will stay with you longer than many novels.”
– —Horror World Book Reviews
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