There Was a Crooked Man, He Flipped a Crooked House
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David Sadzin
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"Downtrodden architect Glenn Washington and his none-too-bright sidekick Lennie help a crooked real estate baron flip houses in downtrodden Detroit. A house comes up that is too good to gut for parts. Too good to be true. Waaaay too good. Thing is, nothing leads where it should - go through the front door, step out the door on the back porch. Best library ever. And why are the cops nosing around? Non-Euclidian architectural petty-crime adventure, and all that implies." (Adrian Simmons, writing for Black Gate magazine)
"This is a very entertaining and readable story, and what makes it even better is the sheer amount of incidental detail that Nelson includes. At the end, just when I thought it was coming off the boil a little, there is a neat little twist that pulls it back up again, as well as allowing for sequels. One for the ‘Best of the Year’ collections." (Paul Fraser, writing for sfmagazines.com)
"Absorbing horror novella." (Rich Horton, Locus)
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- Norma Miles
- 03-08-18
A theory of colour.
This short story by David Erik Nelson is a tightly woven tapestry of personality and evoked mental images, well written to roll pictures through the mind, and although a tale of horror, is also one of beauty.
An old house in Detroit is bought by a developer who send his two men in to determine if it was a fixer-upper or a tearer-downer. What they find is a really old place in extremely good condition, not only the fabric of the building but also internally - exquisite furnishings, all in pristine condition, shelves loaded with books with unusual titles, nothing vandalised and, even more strange, nothing weather damaged, mildewed or invaded by leaves or rodents. It's locked, of course, and two cops seem to have a more than usual interest in it.
David Sadzin's narration is calm and steady. No histionics to invade the story. His voicings for the individual characters captures well the people as written including, especially, that of Glenn, the first person narrator, and his colleague, Lenny, who might be considered a slow learner but is a fountain of information. The whole is performed with a sensitivity which allows for the horror to seep darkly into the reader's mentality rather than come crashing down on them.
My thanks to the rights holder for freely gifting me a complimentary copy of There was a Crooked House, at my request, via Audiobook Boom. Creepy, rather than horrific, this is a book which will linger in my head.
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- Amazon Customer
- 12-08-18
Wonderful little tale
I was given this free review copy audiobook at my request and have voluntarily left this review.
I actually finished this a week ago but held off writing the review until I had time to give it thought. Honestly I can't fault this quirky, wonderful little tale. Likeable characters, an entirely unique (to my knowledge) story and spot-on narration. Top marks.
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- Victoria Elizabeth
- 05-08-18
Absorbing Horror
I loved everything about this book - the story is brilliant, with such a clever premise, the characters come to life immediately, the dialogue between characters is exceptional, at times such dry humour I laughed despite the scenario being horrific! The narration is at the absolute top end of excellent, the narrator just 'gets' the characters. When he's narrating the dialogue at the crooked house he totally brings the characters, the house and the oddities of the scenarios to life.
This is a short story that packs a big punch in 2.5 hours. It took me back to the pleasure and fascination of when I first discovered Stephen King - those wierd and often horrific situations people found themselves in, written in such a way that you're right there with them, wide eyed in fascination and trepidation of what could possibly happen next, willing it to be something you could never dream of, it pushing your imagination to new places and then yearning for more to feed the habit of expanding your mind into the impossible. Well this story is like that.
I received a foc review copy of this story from the author/narrator via Audiobook Boom. I don't personally know either and this is an unbiased review.
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