Creep House: Horror Stories by Andersen Prunty

Author:Andersen Prunty
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: small town horror, horror collections, comic horror, sex gore horror, horror, extreme horror, modern horror, horror short stories, surreal horror, ohio
Publisher: Grindhouse Press
Published: 2017-11-25T16:00:00+00:00

THE EXISTENTIAL DREAD OF COMPLACENCY

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It was probably the first time in his adult life Thurston Tremont would readily admit to being happy with nearly everything. His teenage son was doing well, both physically and in school, and seemed to be less depressed than he had been a couple of years ago. Thurston only usually saw Matthew on the weekends and it didn’t really feel like enough but, in reality, they probably spent more time together than many fathers and sons. After two failed marriages, Thurston was finally with a woman who had similar interests and complemented him. She felt as much like a friend as a lover and that was something he’d never really experienced before. He didn’t like to think every relationship was supposed to make you miserable at least half the time. He didn’t really know where that idea came from but figured it was probably some latent misogynist notion. The woman gave the man sex and therefore he must pay for that with his misery. It relegated all romantic relationships to prostitution, essentially. But this one didn’t feel like that. Oh, and the sex was great. She was a writer, too, and they spent much of their time together sitting beside one another and working on their own projects in their individual heads. They came together to share. It worked. And the books were selling reasonably well. The past year or so had seen some newfound interest in the work of Holger Blackwell and the manuscript Thurston completed for his goonish editor, The One Who Creeps, earned him enough in royalties to pay his rent. And the rent wasn’t as cheap as it had been this time last year. He and Kara had finally bitten the bullet and moved out of their scary, tiny, ancient, but cheap apartment in downtown Dayton to a house in the town of Twin Springs. She was from up north but had fallen in love with the town when he’d taken her there one weekend shortly after they’d first met. And he’d liked it ever since going there with his friends in high school. He and his friends had mainly gone there because of the head shop and bookstore and you could buy incense and anything else you needed to turn yourself into a goofy hippie overnight. But there was more to it than that. They went to high school in the middle of a cornfield in a conservative small town. It wasn’t the small town he had a problem with. He loved small towns. He did not enjoy gun toting, racist, conservative small mindedness. Twin Springs was home to Shrine College. While it had fallen on hard times lately, there was a legacy of equality and progressive politics that was still palpable. Living somewhere where they were surrounded by dreadlocked, barefoot, patchouli wearing hippies was highly preferable to watching people get shot in the parking lot of the clubs across the street. Plus Holger Blackwell had lived there. Plus there were good restaurants to eat in and a brewery down the street that brewed awesome beer.

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