Troll

Product Description


A friend in need... A bizarre house... A terrible secret... Who will survive the Troll?
An urgent message sends Steve rushing to the home of his old friend Tom Howard. He expects to find Tom relapsed into drug addiction, but instead finds something even more sinister.
The condition of the house is grotesquely, unnaturally strange. And Tom is living in the basement, almost starved to death and totally fixated upon the internet. Tom tells a story so incredible that Steve doubts his sanity – until he sees the truth for himself...
The Troll is coming, to feast on misery, pain... and human flesh.
'Troll' is the ninth in the series of Short Horror Tales - quick reads written to captivate the reader with thrills, chills and unexpected twists.


Review


From Reader Reviews for Short Horror Tales:

 

"This story has a beginning introduction that is a superb insight into the character and endearing him to us. The action comes swiftly and just as you think it's over the author, Ian Thompson, gives us a fresh and exciting twist. The end is satisfying and brings the story back around to where it begun, in terms of the theme and focus of the character. This is thoroughly spooky, enticing and well written from start to finish." - Katie Lewington

 

"Damn scary 5-Star story"

 

"Great short story..."

 

"I could feel the fear..."

 

 (see full reviews on my website)

 


From the Author


So what's special about Short Horror Tales?

 

The vision for each Short Horror Tale is to create a short movie in the reader's mind - usually around sixty minutes long, fast-paced, with vivid characters, disturbing threats and desperate action. The exact type of story will vary - perhaps it will be a supernatural mystery, a deadly hunt, a battle or a very personal drama. Always, there will be something sinister lurking in the darkness.

 

These are tales I hope you will want to enjoy again and again.

 

Do all these stories take place in the same creative world?

 

Most of them do, and readers will see references in stories to events, people and places from other tales. Mr Slowly, a lethal assassin, is the leading character in a number of the stories so far. Think of the world of these Short Horror Tales as our own modern-day world... with a much darker side.

 

Occasionally, some stories will play out in their own private 'sandbox' - tales, for instance, with catastrophic or apocalyptic themes.