Fran Friel
Fran Friel is a horror writer and contributing writer to the Horror Library Blog-O-Rama. Fran lives in Connecticut with her husband where she grows plants and gargoyles.
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Mama’s Boy and Other Dark TalesAuthor: Friel, Fran |
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Nominated for the 2008 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a Collection This book also contains the author preferred version of Mama’s Boy, nominated for the 2006 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in Long Fiction. The Bram Stoker Award-nominated novella “Mama’s Boy” is the cornerstone of this 14-story collection from author Fran Friel and Apex Publications. A man whose mother’s demented love for him has turned him from an innocent boy to a serial killer to a near-comatose mental patient opens his world to a psychologist determined to reach him as a way of dealing with her own mother’s battle with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. But is she helping, or is there more damage to be done? In “Mashed,” a son’s simple request for potatoes with his birthday dinner opens up a world of past fears and childhood torments for his mother, while the flash fiction story “Close Shave” presents a horrifically funny solution to an everyday women’s issue. From mother and son to broader family ties, Friel explores the bonds of human connection into every dark turn. The humorous yet wickedly creepy “Under the Dryer” begins as a tale told by the family dog and ends in a bloodbath; “Special Prayers,” perhaps the most disturbing offering in the collection, exposes a family secret of abuse and power; and the tragically soft and beautiful “Orange and Golden” explores the purest form of the human-animal bond as the sun sets on a natural disaster. Table of Contents:
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 Mama’s Boy |
Mama’s BoyAuthor: Friel, Fran |
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Nominated for the 2006 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in Long Fiction. Deep within the confines of Penn’s Asylum waits a scarred and broken man with a seemingly non-existent past. Found burned and unresponsive twenty years prior, Frank Doe’s dark secrets have remained locked away in mute silence. That is until Rebecca, a beautiful young doctor newly assigned to the wards of the asylum, steps in to unlock and scour Doe’s psyche for answers about his past. Shocking revelations bring about the doctor’s own troubled history, opening a long-closed set of wounds that she herself must face. A novella of deep, dark and disturbing images, Mama’s Boy is a story you won’t soon forget. Perhaps it will even unleash your own wounds lying just below the surface. Will you withstand the demons inside? Rat’s Note: This sold out novella has been republished in a collection of short stories titled: Mama’s Boy and Company. |
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Summary:
Title List:
1. Mama’s Boy
2. Mama’s Boy and Other Dark Tales
Title List: Novels and Novellas
1. Mama’s Boy
Title List: Short Story Collections
1. Mama’s Boy and Other Dark Tales
Weblinks List:
The Lair of Author Fran Friel
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