175437269WHAT REALLY HAPPENS AT LAST LIGHT ? Last Light will give you just enough illumination to see into the wonders and horrors that dwell deep within the darkest shadows. These tales will both entrance and terrify. Scared of the dark? Let Last Light guide you safely through these stories of the paranormal and terror that surrounds us all.

Source Format Pages Publisher Genre Publication Date
author ebook 260 Granthorpe Millner Horror September 26th, 2023

I do love me a short story collection. I think there’s a certain skill to writing a good short story. It has to have enough substance on the very limited amount of pages to feel like you’ve read a whole novel. This means, all the info that the author decides to include has to be relevant, well presented (e.g. succinct and yet not leave you wanting) and the characters have to be fleshed out creatively. It can’t be easy writing a short story, it simply cannot. And yet, I have read so many good short story collections and my mind is blown how much some authors can do with limited word count. It’s unreal.

Last Light sits right up there with my favorite short story collections. What a variety of horror/thriller stories, each one so different when it came to characters, the themes and the focus points. It felt like I was able to read multiple super interesting books in a really short amount of time and I felt really excited!

I won’t go into each story in detail and it’s really difficult for me to pick out one or two, they all left me with a wow-effect as I read the last sentence of each story. I will simply highlight the final story of the collection which I felt was a terrific choice for a last story because it leaves the reader with a lasting effect. Simply brilliant. But, yes, each story has soul in it. Each story has a different aspect of humanity that it focuses on, be it fear, love, guilt, greed… Via smooth writing style and a very focused conflict for each of the stories, a multitude of entertaining resolutions and unexpected twists were delivered. Chris Coppel is very creative and without having to resort to outright gore and detailed graphic scenes, he deliver effective and clever conclusions. I would recommend readers to check out this collection for sure.

CCoppelHi Readers,

I was raised the son of a writer. My father wrote plays, films and novels. He was successful and suffered constant wanderlust. I was born in America when he was there writing Vertigo for Alfred Hitchcock.

I give that familial insight so that you can understand that I had the genes, I just needed to find my footing and get up the nerve to put pen to paper (or to be more accurate…open my laptop). Many would say that having a successful parent should make it easier to follow their path under the protective shadow of their parent’s success. Not so!

Writing is difficult. Writing in the hopes that you will be read and your works appreciated is terrifying. In my case, the fear of failure kept my ideas and stories buried in a back closet within my brain.

It is only now as I enter the latter part of my existence that I have been able to calm the fear and share my stories with those who may wish to read them.

I would like to think that it was my choice to write about things that go bump in the night, but it wasn’t. I had no idea that I would one day write tales of horror, but that is now what I do. With each new book, I feel drawn further into the dark void that we feel but rarely see.

I hope you will join me.

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