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Asylum - 13 Tales of Terror Kindle Edition

by Matt Drabble (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

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"Matt Drabble is a name that will one day be as widely recognized as Stephen King & Dean Koontz" - READERS FAVORITE

Asylum 13 Tales of Terror is an Amazon US Horror Chart #5 best seller, voted 5th on The Horror Novel Review's Top 10 Books of 2013 & a 2014 Readers Favorite Gold Medal Winner for Anthology Fiction

Blackwater Heights is a building with a long dark history, some of it is well known but more is shrouded in myth and legend. None more so than that of its founding father Horace Whisker.

Martin Parcell is an ex-journalist with shattered dreams of an author's career. Sidelined through a car crash's injuries, he finds himself forced through governmental austerity measures having to take a custodians position at a private mental health hospital. A writer with undoubted talent, but an author without a story.

He begins his new job deep in depression and drowning under waves of his lost dreams. On his first night he meets Jimmy, his elderly supervisor who has spent most of his life within the hospital walls. Jimmy is nearing retirement age and desperate to rest his weary bones. Jimmy offers Martin a way out for both of them, access to the background histories and stories of the hospital's patients.

A collection of 13 tales from the darkly disturbed minds of the residents of Blackwater Heights.

As the long night unwinds, Martin finds himself deeply troubled as the tales unfold before him and threaten to drag him down into their insanity.

Selected other works of Matt Drabble:

ABRA-CADAVER - The 2017 Readers Favorite Silver Medal Winner for Horror Fiction. Winner of a prestigious Indie Book of the Day Award, a 2015 Kindle Book Review Award Finalist and is the 2016 Book Excellence Awards winner for Horror Fiction. (FREE KINDLE version available)

THE ASYLUM TRILOGY - an Amazon US Horror Chart #5 best seller, voted #5 on The Horror Novel Review's Top 10 Books of 2013 and is a 2014 Readers Favorite Gold Medal winner, a 2016 Readers Favorite Silver Medal winner for Anthology Fiction.

THE LAST RESORT - The 2019 Readers Favorite Silver Medal Winner for Horror Fiction & The 2019 Kindle Book Review's Winner for Horror/Suspense.

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Career Highlights

The Gated Trilogy

2015 Readers Favorite Gold Medal for Horror Fiction & 2014 Full Moon Awards Horror Book of the Year.

The Asylum Trilogy

5th on The Horror Novel Review's Top 10 of 2013 & 2014 Readers Favorite Gold Medal for Anthology Fiction.

Abra-Cadaver

2017 Readers Favorite Silver Medal for Horror Fiction & 2016 Book Excellence Award Winner.

The Last Resort

2019 Readers Favorite Silver Medal for Horror Fiction & 2019 Kindle Book Review's Winner for Horror/Suspense.

Multi Award Winning Author of Dark Fiction

Born Bath, England in 1974, a self-professed "funny onion", equal parts Metal-Head Sport Loving Jock and Gaming Comic Book Geek. An A.S sufferer who took to writing full time after being forced to give up work.

A prolific multi award winning author of dark fiction. These are stories with a horrifying beating black heart & a vicious twist in the tale. A firm believer in three dimensional character driven tales and the fact that every character, no matter how small, must always live and breathe.

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"Matt Drabble is nothing short of a genius when it comes to painting a picture of his characters. This novel was sensational! I started reading and couldn't stop" LITTLE BLOG OF HORROR

"Consistently very, very strong like Stephen King, or Clive Barker, there's simply no telling what the man will deliver in a package of this nature" HORROR NOVEL REVIEWS

"It takes skill to make the short story format work and Matt Drabble has mastered it as he is able to establish both character and story in a matter of pages while conveying a sense of horror and terror" REELYBORED.COM

"Turn down the lights, turn off the TV and cuddle up with these stories tonight - talk about being afraid of the dark!" BOOK FIDELITY

About the Author

Born in Bath, England in 1974, a self-professed "funny onion", equal parts sport loving jock and comic book geek. I am a lover of horror and character driven stories. I am also an A.S sufferer who took to writing full time two years ago after being forced to give up the day job.

I have a career high position of 5th on Amazon's Horror Author Rank of which I am immensely proud.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00BPSS4XG
Publisher ‏ : ‎ DarkScore Publishing (December 25, 2013)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ December 25, 2013
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 4241 KB
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
Print length ‏ : ‎ 310 pages

Best Sellers Rank: #555,234 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #401 in Horror Anthologies (Kindle Store)
- #464 in Vampire Mysteries
- #566 in British Horror Fiction

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Born in Bath, England in 1974, a self-professed "funny onion", equal parts Metal-Head Sport Loving Jock and Gaming Comic Book Geek. I am an author of Horror/Dark Thrillers usually with a twist in the tale and always character driven stories. I am also an A.S sufferer who took to writing full time after being forced to give work.

Some of my career highlights to date include:

GATED TRILOGY a 2015 Readers Favorite Gold Medal Winner, a UK & US Horror Chart Top Ten Best Seller & winner of the Full Moon Awards 2014 Horror Book of the Year.

ASYLUM - 13 TALES OF TERROR TRILOGY a US Horror Chart Top 10 Best Seller, voted 5th on The Horror Novel Review's Top 10 Books of 2013 & the Readers Favorite 2014 Gold Medal Winner for Anthology Fiction.

ABRA-CADAVER the 2017 Readers Favorite Silver Medal Winner for Horror Fiction. It is also an Indie Book of the Day winner and the 2016 Book Excellence Award Winner for Horror Fiction.

THE LAST RESORT is the 2019 Readers Favorite Silver Medal Winner for Horror Fiction & The 2019 Kindle Book Review's Winner for Horror/Suspense

Website: mattdrabble.co.uk

Twitter: MattDrabble01

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Ami

Awesome! Well Done!

Reviewed in the United States on March 11, 2013

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After having just negatively reviewed two other books, this was a breath of fresh but dark, grim air.

The story follows a down on his luck writer who end up working maintenance at an asylum. There he meets an eccentric worker who takes him on a tour of the building and it's must dangerous inhabitants.

What follows is a collection of anecdotes about the residents. These stories are all original, easy to follow, and quite interesting. It's like reading several great episodes of The Twilight Zone.

Each story is unique, and all is not always what it seems. I was surprised many times by the outcomes of the stories. You start trying to predict the endings to the stories, only to find that oftentimes your guess was dead wrong.

The best part of this book is how easy it is to pick it up. The details in the setting are vivid and clear. The characterization is excellently done; each resident is well fleshed out even in their limited time on the page. You really begin to feel a sense of unease and foreboding as you continue.

There were some grammatical errors and one or two misspelled words. This author has a horrible problem with comma splices! Yikes! I suggest to you, my good man, that you go research comma splices with haste!

Notice however that I still gave five stars. This is a great book, especially if you have time to kill. This is a wonderful book. I'm a new fan!

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Georgiagyrl

Absolutely Loved It, Until The Door Slammed!!

Reviewed in the United States on June 25, 2016

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My favorite format of books to read has always been anthologies, and among them the 'Tales of Terror ' have always won out. Even if one or two of the stories aren't any good (IMO) there's always a chance of finding a gem somewhere among the others. Occasionally I've run into some which appear to have no gems at all, but there are some stories which tend to tease the mind with the promise of a glimpse of a shiny gem, but as you get deeper those turn out to be cracked and discolored, and downright disappointing. Sometimes none of the stories are real gems, but they're all shiny with the sparkle one gets from expensive cubic zirconia, and they do keep your attention if only to search for the flaw that has to be somewhere just under the surface.

And then there is ASYLUM-13 Tales of Terror by Matt Drabble. Thirteen stories inside a story and each one drawing you the reader deeper into the main story, but then leaving you floundering helplessly in a sea of "Wha the ?" when you reach the end. I expected the ending but when it came I was completely surprised by the emptiness of it, by the lack of any attempt to craft an ending. It was as if the author was (IMO) tired and said "Well that's enough." and simply walked out of his home office and slammed the door shut. The stories were all good, some of them even great! I sat down to read a couple of pages and did night get up until it was finished. I didn't even realize how much time had passed until I looked at the clock.

I think even with the lack of an ending I might have given it 5 stars, if not for thing. I read the book on Kindle, so in places in some of the stories there were links inserted. I didn't click on them until I was almost finished, and then went back and checked the others. I do not like links which supposedly add something to a story (i.e. a person's name linking to their history) but then take you instead to a page advertising programming.

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Time&Tide

Good stories...inconsistent execution

Reviewed in the United States on July 28, 2014

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Most of these stories were quite good - some were even very original. They were good enough that I read to the end, despite the inconsistent writing style. I'm actually rather torn between three or four stars for this one. I don't demand perfection from an author, but I do believe that if you're putting your work out there, it behooves you to have it edited well, by a fresh set of very fussy eyes. Because you, as the author, know the story you're telling, and the words you're using, and how it sounds in your head, it is incredibly difficult to edit your own work effectively. Unfortunately, this can bury a good story under an avalanche of technical problems. These short stories didn't get buried, but there were a number of instances that yanked me right out of a story - the use of a wrong word (verified instead of rarified, slithers instead of slivers, among others) requiring me to figure out what he actually meant, the use of *all* the adjectives all at once bogging down the writing, stilted and unnatural dialogue - not fatal flaws, but decidedly disruptive and aggravating. And then there were wonderful stretches of flowing, descriptive prose that drew me right in to the stories...honestly, by about halfway through I began to wonder if it wasn't written by two different people.
The concept of the book is a series of short stories, wrapped around by an overarching scenario. It's the stories within a story device, and while the wraparound wasn't bad, I easily could've done without it. It didn't add much, and in rather a few places, it was a bit contrived. Mostly harmless, but rather redundant to the storytelling.
The beauty of this book lies in its potential. There are some very entertaining tales here. Some a little predictable (Because really, they're scary stories. They follow convention.), but still well told. There's a bit of gore, but nothing depends on it. He doesn't rely on the gross-out to up the spooky factor. They are worth the read. If you're like me, and a bit fussy over the rules of style, they're still worth the read if you can get over it. If things like grammar & spelling don't bother you as much as a good creepy story pleases you, then definitely go for it. I do hope Matt Drabble continues to write, because I definitely believe he's got some fantastic stories in his head!

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Megan B Phillips

Addicting and thrilling!

Reviewed in Canada on March 5, 2016

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Fantastic tales and expertly crafted characters. Loved every second of this book. Will easily buy anything from this author given his talent for creating terror, twisted tales and imagery.

Norma B Davis

Asylum

Reviewed in Spain on April 17, 2015

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I really enjoyed it and couldnt put it down, A very good story line and the characters were very believable

Talisker-book

Clever and thought provoking book.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 16, 2013

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A fantastic book filled with brilliant short stories which are cleverly linked together by an overarching narrative. I'm not usually a fan of short horror stories but Matt Drabble has a unique talent of making you identify with the protagonists of each story very quickly.

The main narrative is great, and really builds the reader's suspense. Like some of the other reviewers on here, I did foresee the twist at the end, but it was not central to the story and it also made for a great ending.

Each individual story could quite easily be made into its own novel. They are well structured, stand alone stories and the character development in each of them is well layered and astutely conceptualised. As each story is different it is perhaps pertinent to mention that they are not all clichéd `horror' stories, several of them can be considered to be more suspense/thriller in nature but still leave you feeling `creeped out' after reading them. As with his other work, Drabble's ability to create a tense atmosphere really puts the reader on edge. My favourite stories were `The Voice', `Method Acting', `No Strings Attached' and `Dish of the Day', they all left me shocked and stayed with me well after I had finished reading them.

After I had finished the book I realised there's a bit of a `seven deadly sins' theme running throughout it. Drabble takes an innovative and abstract view of themes such as guilt, greed and vanity by discussing them in the context of mental health and addiction and still manages to keep it entertaining. The reader doesn't feel preached at, which was refreshing.

I really can't recommend this book enough, it's very easy to read and, for the price, you'd be hard pushed to find a better collection of short stories.

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HoneyBunny

Four Stars

Reviewed in Australia on March 7, 2016

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I enjoyed this book and I intend to read other tales of Terror by this author in the future.

Bowmore Montreal

Enjoyable but needs a final edit/proofreading

Reviewed in Canada on July 16, 2016

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Thoroughly enjoyable. Several of the tales ended in ways I did not expect or see coming, an especially good thing when it comes to horror. A story can't creep you out if you always know what's going to happen next!

My only complaint would be that the eBook version I read needs to be edited/proofread one final time. Lots of little typos and mistakes that pull the reader out of the story, generally involving some form of wrong word, autocorrect-style errors ( some examples: "slither" instead of "sliver", " "emasculated" instead of "emaciated", "of" instead of "on"). Otherwise, a very good collection of creepy, macabre tales.

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