French Fries and Flamethrowers Nine More Disturbing Short Stories about the Darker Side of Human Nature Vol 3 edition by Glen Johnson Literature Fiction eBooks
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In an old apartment building, a group of people go about their night like any other. However, tonight is different, tonight all their lives intertwine. A night, when against all the odds, a series of events unfolds, culminating in a bloodbath.
It's a story of love, madness, sexual perversity, stalking, murder, greed, abuse, voyaging, and betrayal. Also, other, outsider's blood, stains the floors and walls; the Ukrainian mob, the French special forces, and the local police – it's a complete massacre.
Follow the complicated life-and-death dance. Read as they die one by one, causing a chain reaction that results in the building burning to the ground.
One building. Nine apartments. Nine intertwined stories. Twenty-nine dead, three missing, and only one survivor.
1 The Insomniac
Trevor Olsen owns a chip shop, and works every hour sent to keep his business afloat. He struggles to stay awake to keep up with Friday night’s drunken clientele. Due to his exhausted state, as he’s locking up for the night, he makes a fatal error that leaves a dead body on his kitchen floor. He tries to dispose of the body, but in the process, a misunderstanding makes a bad situation much worse.
2 The Taxidermist
Fredric Nolan has found a niche in the taxidermist market; small rodents posed in silly stances dressed as humans. He ups the ante, deciding to experiment with cats. Luckily, a neighbour has an abundance of them. He steals one, hoping to practice. However, things don’t go according to plan.
3 The Butcher
Anton Gruzinsky is a Russian, who owns a butcher’s shop. He uses the carcasses of animals to transport drugs around southern England for a Ukrainian gang. When he’s asked to help out in their human trafficking ring, he declines. However, his boss isn’t the kind of man you simply say no to.
4 The Florist
Elena Fisk grows orchids for a living; she devotes her life to cultivating the delicate flowers. In her attempt to duplicate the perfect environment, she builds a complicated watering system. On the spur of the moment, she buys a new plant food to test the system out – Mephedrone, or otherwise known as Meow Meow.
5 The Lovers
Nalin Nhek is a shy, quiet Cambodian who moved to England to work so she can send money home to her family. She falls in love with Isaac Tiggs, a police officer, and their lives seem perfect. However, one random event changes everything.
6 The Animal Lover
Gertrude Dodd is housebound, having grown too fat to leave her apartment. Her three dogs, thirteen cats, a parrot, and a collection of rodents keeps her company, which she prefers to humans – to her; they are loyal and trustworthy. However, none of them can come to her aid when she needs help the most.
7 The Agoraphobic
Gordon Welts hasn’t left his building in four years. As well as renting out the flats, he makes his money by selling the videos he makes with all his hidden cameras on his specialty website. That is, until one person discovers his secret and puts an end to his little money-making adventure.
8 The Foreigner
Samira Hussaini is an Afghanistan immigrant. She is quiet and polite and works as a cleaner. Or is she? Sometimes things are never as they seem.
9 The Geek
Benedict Kock is a thirteen-year-old who is left home alone every night, while his mother struggles to pay the bills. Ben is bullied relentlessly at school. However, his school project is finally finished; something that will make everyone realise that he’s not just a weakling loser.
French Fries and Flamethrowers Nine More Disturbing Short Stories about the Darker Side of Human Nature Vol 3 edition by Glen Johnson Literature Fiction eBooks
If I had ever had a doubt as to whether or not Mr. Johnson could write dark fiction horror, then these stories have put all doubts to rest. These tales were wicked, scary, and at times repulsive. I'm not just talking about the fried pea fritters either! This is some seriously messed up work, and I mean that in the kindest way possible. I love this author's writing, so yes, I would recommend this book.Product details
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French Fries and Flamethrowers Nine More Disturbing Short Stories about the Darker Side of Human Nature Vol 3 edition by Glen Johnson Literature Fiction eBooks Reviews
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Totally love the fact that GJ does NOT apologise for being an English author and uses all the correct spellings!
He is the master of short, sharp stories and excels at it in this set. Each of the stories are based around residents in a block of flats, GJ cleverly links them all but you can read each one individually, but I challenge you just to read one and not be drawn into finishing the entire set.
GJ has pulled a master stroke in managing to link every single story to each other, places, times, people, relevant news items.
Really enjoyed all the prologue “chats”
The Insomniac
Oh dear, poor obese Trevor is so tired keeping up with demand in his chip shop that he makes a fatal error, his efforts to make good don’t go as planned.
GJ Manages to do the inner dialogue perfectly giving a great “view” of the chippy on a Friday night with all its bawdy customers and of Trevor and how he feels about life, family, love and everything really!
Then the desire for late night french fries occurs add in a little slip and an incident involving some cling film, mix in some mud and finally a twig!
I did not know whether to laugh or cry at the ending, it was so beautifully thought out and executed, this author just blows me away.
The Taxidermist
Fred has a disturbingly disgusting desire to start practising on his neighbours cats. Thankfully they decide to not be cooperative.
I despise all animal cruelty, even in fictional stories, it was fairly obvious where this story was going but as I follow this author on FB I note that he too is an animal lover and trusted him with my emotions. I was not disappointed although the story made me feel glad in one way it still irked my heart.
The horror is slow and painful to endure and made me squirm but ultimately it was the gore that made me cheer.
The Butcher
GJ does cliché and stereo type so well its wonderfully kitsch!
Anton the Russian has been upto naughty things and tension is high in the preparation room but when Anton is giving a promotion he refuses and bloody hell reigns, how do you say no to a drug baron.
GJ does well to make you like what should be an unlikable man, then feel his pain at his demise, in a rather unique fashion.
The Florist
Elena is just trying to make her orchids grow the best when it all goes a bit wrong.
GJ pays such attention to detail I could not help but be drawn into the story. The way he interconnects the characters is charmed, having learnt about Jimmy in The Insomniac and the “sister” we now meet her in all her weird glory.
Elena and her son Jimmy have been busy installing a watering system and she has added a special fertilising ingredient she has found in the Sky High shop.
As she gets a good dousing of the newly enhanced misting spray strangeness ensures – riveting reading all the way to the crescendo.
The Lovers
Nalin and Isaac seem to have a perfect life until something random happens to change things for them.
Having already met the characters I felt like I slipped into their lives unwatched and with the brilliantly researched and factual back history of Nalin’s life I was engrossed, and sad at the world’s history.
During some amazingly erotic love making something awful (and funny) happens and I was left heartbroken at the ending.
The Animal Lover
Gertrude can’t fit out her apartment door but her animals keep her company.
Whilst I love animals the description of the smell in her flat and what the various animals did was enough to make me gag! Over all her cruelty was far worse than Fred the Taxidermists. The ever so accurate portrayal of obesity was both sickening and fascinating.
As Gertrude teeters on the edge of a heart attack on her trek around her flat to find her inhaler I found myself breath holding and waiting for the inevitable. Her finale demise was very slap stick in what appears to be GJ signature way of killing people off, most amusing.
The Agoraphobic
Gordon is the building manager with a nice money making side-line involving hidden cameras, so all the goings on are being watched, recorded and broadcast.
It is in fact his best night ever with all his regularly voyeurs logging on to watch the mayhem going on in the building, and the revolting Gordon is just watching it all with £ signs dancing in his eyes.
It was a brilliant way to catch up on what was happening in each flat from another perspective, the time line alone was magnificent in its perfection. In a few sentences GJ summed up the night of horror.
When he gets a knock on the door the person on the other side is not who he expected.
The Foreigner
GJ launches from one dead body to another, and does it with superb style.
Samira is a covert spy and assassin, but she also a complex and sad past, however now is the time she must make a quick escape as Gordon’s little internet business has alerted authorities to her.
GJ could easily write thrillers as he clearly has all the knowledge and skill to lead readers down a dark path of intrigue then set them on fire with the truth.
Another amazing little snippet of the bigger story, another sad ending but with that little hint of a giggle.
The Geek
Poor schoolboy Benedict is often bullied and left alone by his hard working (and playing) mother, but he has been working hard on his school project and he has a dream.
I loved the way GJ interjects all these little comments that just speed you make to other scenes, this would make a brilliant Tarantino style film.
In the Epilogue he really rounded up the horror and giggles, tying up every loose end and give an incredible to ride to his readers.
Anything written by Glen Johnson will keep you reading until early morning! I have a hard time putting his books down.
I read the entire collection in one sitting. Loved the way the disparate stories all tied together at the end --was not expecting that at all.
If I had ever had a doubt as to whether or not Mr. Johnson could write dark fiction horror, then these stories have put all doubts to rest. These tales were wicked, scary, and at times repulsive. I'm not just talking about the fried pea fritters either! This is some seriously messed up work, and I mean that in the kindest way possible. I love this author's writing, so yes, I would recommend this book.
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