So yesterday, I posted a link to EBooks of Horror.com, where my new short story collection Nine Frights was featured. It's still there if you want to read a big chunk of the lead story, "Janey in Amber." Today I'm posting a link to Horror World.com, where there's a brand-new review of the book by TT Zuma.
Here's the takeaway paragraph... but you should really read the whole thing. And then read the stories themselves.
"The stories Jeff Mariotte presents in Nine Frights run the gambit from hard core horror to dark fantasy, and from gore laden prose to imaginative, speculative imagery. But there is a theme that unifies all of these stories and it is a poignant one; it involves the lessons of humanity. You don’t often see short horror stories that even hint of man’s virtue, how our love for others is intrinsic and how our first thoughts in a horrific situation would be for the welfare of others. Yet each and every one of the stories in Nine Frights, as upsetting and as dark as most of them are, leave the reader with a positive perception of human nature, a glimmer of hope, or at least an understanding of why choices were made."
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