In a dark alley in St. Paul, Minnesota, a pair of boys think they’re breaking into an abandoned secondhand store, but what they’re really entering is a nightmare from which they may never escape.
Meanwhile, in a nearby city, a caped figure appears as it does every night on the sidewalk outside the house of that old woman who neighbors believe is really a witch.
And in a rural woodland, ghouls unearth the residents of an ancient graveyard and carry off the rotting remnants for sinister purposes.
All by the silvery light of the moon.
The nine tales in this collection by award-winning writer Joe Pawlowski feature a hapless real-estate agent driven to extreme measures by his love of a severely deformed woman; a trio of farmers who discover a presence from beyond lurking in the corn; a paraplegic miss who rides the supernatural into realities far from the confines of her hospital bed; the American tourist in Mexico City who discovers the deeper meaning of the Day of the Dead; and the wise guy who learns it’s not OK to shortchange a sin eater.
It’s surely looking like a bad moon is on the rise.
Pale Blades Of Moonlight is a collection of nine intriguing stories that range from horror to fantasy with a touch of sci-fi.
Black magic, strange rituals, grave robbers, alien beings, and more, made for an entertaining read.
My favorites were as follows...
Shadow Man, in which a reclusive woman who guards a dangerous object lets her defenses down.
It Came Out Of The Sky- When a strange metal capsule crashes to the earth a couple of elderly men follow the trail of its occupant. They should have run the other way!
A young woman who has survived a traumatic and devastating injury that robbed her of the life she should have had travels the globe without leaving her bed in A world Apart.
A realtor becomes obsessed with a deformed client in Iris.
A man tries to cheat a sin eater out of his fee and learns that some things are far more dear than money in Elliot's Just Dessert.
If you're in the mood for shivery thrills and startling chills you'll find them here in Pale Blades Of Moonlight.
My thanks to Joe Pawlowski.
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