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Incubus: A Very Short Horror Story (eBook)
| Incubus: A Very Short Horror Story | |
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 Incubus: A Very Short Horror Story eBook Cover, written by Gretchen Grimm | |
| Author(s) | Gretchen Grimm |
| Publisher | Amazon Digital Services |
| Publication date | January 4, 2018 |
| Media type | eBook |
| Length | 9 Pages |
| ASIN | B078VJ5LCN |
For other uses of the word Incubus, see Incubus (disambiguation).
Incubus: A Very Short Horror Story is an eBook written by Gretchen Grimm. In this work some of the characters can be described as Incubi.
Overview
- Title: Incubus: A Very Short Horror Story
- Author: Gretchen Grimm
- Published By: Amazon Digital Services
- Length: 9 Pages
- Format: eBook
- ASIN: B078VJ5LCN
- Publishing Date: January 4, 2018
Plot Summary
Incubus is a story of damnation.
Book Review
The following review was originally published by Tera on her Blog, A Succubi's Tale on January 5, 2018
A woman finds herself elsewhere and elsewhen, telling of what is happening around and to her. Understanding of why, who and what is open to interpretation, but then so is the question of self and what that means.
The book summary is, I feel, tragically short and while the work itself is short as well, some more time in creating a summary is warranted I think. Given that following the main summary, the additional note of: This is a violent, X-Rated, short horror story with explicit erotic elements. Not for the faint of heart or mind tells more of what to expect. But this isn’t enough I think and this sets expectations to be quite different than they otherwise might be.
The work is very short, but packs quite a lot of story into the telling nonetheless. The work isn’t a narrative or a story which has a lot of time spent in setting up the moment, revealing the main character or for that matter, delving into why things are happening as they are. The main character’s name isn’t said, there’s nothing told about what can be seen, because there’s nothing to see. The story is entirely experienced from the perspective of feeling, of what is happening to the main character and as such there’s a focus which is quite different.
The work is described as a horror story, and while I can see that, I didn’t really get a sense that it was so much one as it was a story of understanding that becomes coopted by events. Perhaps much of that comes from not really having the emotional connection I’d have liked wth the main character. Certainly not having a reason for why things are happening doesn’t help as well.
The writing is very good, the descriptions paint a vivid picture and beyond. There’s no question there is an incubus, what they do isn’t shrouded or held aside. It isn’t erotic, far from it, and that’s the point of the work. This isn’t meant to be something with heat, it’s a tragically blunt entwinement of a soul into darkness and that is told well.
I think the telling of the story as a stream of consciousness worked, but I feel like there’s too much left unsaid and unexplored. It’s a story of feel alone with little else to drive an attachment to the character themselves. It’s well done, the writing is very good, but I found myself asking questions and not really experiencing the story as much as I think I should have.
Three out of five pitchforks.
Too short for my tastes, there’s something missing along the way. Again, this isn’t erotica, but it isn’t quite horror either. The work falls into the space in-between and in being so that makes what happens odd and lost at times. Perhaps something more of a connection to the main character, to know what came before would have helped in doing so.