{"id":6872,"date":"2011-11-12T05:03:09","date_gmt":"2011-11-12T13:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/?p=6872"},"modified":"2011-11-12T05:03:09","modified_gmt":"2011-11-12T13:03:09","slug":"haunted-dark-delicacies-iii-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/2011\/11\/12\/haunted-dark-delicacies-iii-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Haunted: Dark Delicacies III (review)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content_div-6872\">\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Title:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Haunted-Dark-Delicacies-Del-Howison\/dp\/0441020194%3FSubscriptionId%3DAKIAJ575TFCTD2TUN5TQ%26tag%3Dalnathnuse-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3D0441020194\">Haunted: Dark Delicacies III<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Author:<\/strong> <a id=\"contributorNameTriggerB003VN1HD2\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Del-Howison\/e\/B003VN1HD2\/ref=ntt_athr_dp_pel_1\">Del Howison<\/a> (Editor), <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/s\/ref=ntt_athr_dp_sr_2?_encoding=UTF8&amp;sort=relevancerank&amp;search-alias=books&amp;field-author=Jeff%20Gelb\">Jeff Gelb<\/a> (Editor)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Paperback:<\/strong> 320 pages<\/li>\n<li><strong>Publisher:<\/strong> Ace (March 29, 2011)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Language:<\/strong> English<\/li>\n<li><strong>ISBN-10:<\/strong> 0441020194<\/li>\n<li><strong>ISBN-13:<\/strong> 978-0441020195<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This is the third (and currently last) anthology from Dark Delicacies&#8217;s owner Del Howison; you can read my reviews of the other two books <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/2011\/08\/21\/dark-delicacies-book-review\/\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/2011\/11\/11\/dark-delicacies-ii-fear-more-original-tales-of-terror-and-the-macabre-review\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I loved this volume the most of the three; the theme this time is haunted, and all the stories have a creepy edge to them. The last story, &#8220;The Architecture of Snow,&#8221; is amazing for it&#8217;s character development and plot shifts in such a relatively short span. &#8220;Tyler&#8217;s Third Act&#8221; is sick in a really good way; to what lengths would you go if you reached your limit? And the first story, &#8220;Children of the Vortex,&#8221; will remind you of a bizarre, deeper, scarier &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1467304\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Human Centipede<\/a>&#8221; with some very chilling results.<\/p>\n<p>If you like horror or just a good read, you should pick up all three of these anthologies &#8211; I hope more will come along, these are excellent collections!<\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img colorbox-6872\" style=\"float: right;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.zemanta.com\/zemified_e.png\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"translate_block\" style=\"display: none;\">\n<hr class=\"translate_hr\" \/>\n<a class=\"translate_translate\" id=\"translate_button_post-6872\" lang=\"en\" xml:lang=\"en\" href=\"javascript:show_translate_popup('en', 'post', 6872);\"><span>Translate<\/span><\/a><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/google-ajax-translation\/transparent.gif?resize=16%2C16&#038;ssl=1\" id=\"translate_loading_post-6872\" class=\"translate_loading colorbox-6872\" style=\"display: none;\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" alt=\"\" \/>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Title: Haunted: Dark Delicacies III Author: Del Howison (Editor), Jeff Gelb (Editor) Paperback: 320 pages Publisher: Ace (March 29, 2011) Language: English ISBN-10: 0441020194 ISBN-13: 978-0441020195 This is the third (and currently last) anthology from Dark Delicacies&#8217;s owner Del Howison; you can read my reviews of the other two books here and here. 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