Macabre short stories written from Pacione's nightmares, some of them are true while others are works of fiction. A few of them were taken from his journal others from his other websites he kept over the years. This is a fully illustrated version by the author, cover design is by John Welborn and Nickolaus Pacione from one of Pacione's photos he took living in Mason City, Iowa. Before you drift to sleep, be sure to bring some of his dreams into yours. The one year anniversary edition has his drawings. It was four years in the making.
Inspirations: Edgar Allan Poe, Algernon Blackwood, Rod Serling, and H.P. Lovecraft.
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By James W. Beaver
Apr 21, 2011
I can't exactly comment on the book since I haven't read it, however, after browsing around to find something to get my interest in the horror genre (with a touch of Lovecraft) I was shocked and appalled at how homophobic and disrespectful this author is to critics. What could have turned into a sale for this guy turned into another bad review and my money going elsewhere. I will not do business with a homophobe. I need to do more research on this author because I'm actually scared that I almost bought something he wrote!
These stories are NOT grammatical, NOT scary, NOT gothic, and NOT worth the time or money to read. Many of these are also available for free on Pacione's Authorsden pages; preview them first for yourself. You'll see what I mean.
I really don't know where to being with this one, because there are many points that could be made about this book. I'm not exactly sure what this book is trying to accomplish because the "stories" are so distorted and random that it's hard to follow them to even a basic degree. It's as if the author just threw together some random thoughts, threw in some words, and then put them together in what can best be described as a chaotic and disjointed effort. The most obvious issue here is the lack of grammar and misuse of punctuation throughout but even with a top-notch editor I doubt that anything could be saved in this "book" to make it readable. In the world of paintings, sculptures, etc. this kind of disjointed mess can work. But with the written word, in the genre that this author is trying to explore, it does nothing aside from make the readers head hurt and question to themselves, "Why? How? How is this a "book?".
"Re: Oh the horror..." Keep running your mouth you goddamned homo; I don't think you read a copy of Tabloid Purposes in its complete form. You just came here to hurt the sales of this book and you don't have anything of your own out there. Go find yourself a life if you are going to come here and urinate upon my name. While you're at it, why don't you give your mother some head or bend over while your mother gives it to you from the rear since she hasn't got that sex change..
"Oh the horror..." ...and not in a good way. This 'book' (if one can call it that) is unreadable. It appears as if a third grader with only a minimal grasp of grammar and puncuation wrote it--except that the third grader would have done a better job. Not as terrible as TABLOID PRPOSES--but lord, it isn't good either.
