I can scare and thrill you in only…100 words!
Stay at Castle
Dracula…and Other Short-Short Stories
by Jim Nemeth
Genre: Horror Short Stories
Do you
enjoy a good drabble? No, not America’s most popular word game—that’s Scrabble.
No, not those cute, furry little creatures from Star Trek—those are tribbles.
A drabble is a form of intense fiction writing consisting of 100 words. Not 100
chapters, not 100 paragraphs, nor even 100 lines. 100 words. Exactly.
Author Jim Nemeth loves the format and is an
accomplished dabbler in drabbles. “Whenever I explain to friends what a drabble
is,” Nemeth relates, “I get the exact same expression of disbelief: ‘100 words?’
In fact, I took these reactions and wrote a drabble about it, “Impossible
Assignment,” which leads off the collection.”
Stay
at Castle Dracula and Other Short-Short Stories, a chapbook,
collects 26 tales, 23 of which are drabbles. With the three other stories, the
author “splurged” and indulged himself with an additional 100-200 words.
Other
tales of five score words include “Disgruntled,” where a joyous family
Christmas celebration turns horrific when a little boy doesn’t get the toy he
wanted; “Love Potion” relates what happens when a witch’s magic works too
well. And in the title story, another young English traveler debates his
decision in staying in Count Dracula’s centuries’ old castle.
Love Potion
“I’ll always love you.”
Sarah, disrobing in preparation for bed,
recalled the first time Michael uttered these words, mere days after she’d
slipped the love potion into his wine. She’d only half-heartedly believed that
the vial of liquid given by the wiccan witch could turn Michael’s barely
passing interest in Sarah to all-enveloping devotion!
Four years of bliss before Michael’s
untimely passing in a car accident.
They say that love never dies. Sarah had
never really believed that old adage until a few days after Michael’s funeral.
As she lie in bed, Michael stretched a
decayed arm across Sarah’s waist.
In 1993, Nemeth won first prize in a national magazine’s short story
writing contest for which legendary authors Ray Bradbury and Robert Bloch were
judges. The award held special meaning for Nemeth, as Bloch remains his
favorite writer and main literary influence. Nemeth is the author of two
additional books: It Came From…The Stories and Novels Behind Classic
Horror, Fantasy, and Science Fiction Films and Robert Bloch: An
Unconventional Bibliography, as well as being the webmaster of The Robert
Bloch Official Website (robertbloch.net).
A long-time community activist, the author is particularly committed to
the cause of animal rescue. He lives in the historic harbor town of Marblehead,
MA.
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