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<\/a><\/p>\nUnseemly <\/em>by Jason Parent<\/p>\n Corpus Press, 2016<\/p>\n ISBN: 9781523980307<\/p>\n Available: Paperback, Kindle edition\u00a0\u00a0(\u00a0Bookshop.org<\/a> |\u00a0Amazon.com<\/a> )<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Unseemly<\/em> is a nice little story that uses creatures rarely seen in horror stories as its backbone: fairies.\u00a0 In a quick 59 pages, the authors crams in the story of a group of academics\/grave robbers out to find fairy gold, and the bloody disaster that befalls them.\u00a0 It’s a fast read, and perfect for a rainy Saturday afternoon of horror escapism.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The first nineteen pages quickly set up the characters, their backstories, and the story objective.\u00a0 Peter Callum is a down-on-his-luck archaeologist with a mountain of debt.\u00a0 He partners with a sleazy grave robber named Dervish and a folklore professor named McCoy to find out if fairies and their legendary gold inhabit a sparely populated, remote Scottish island.\u00a0 The author does a nice job in the few pages allotted creating a perfectly serviceable explanation for why the legends might be true, as well as adding some mystery that concerns the lone village on the island.\u00a0 The group sets off one fateful evening, and they get much more than they expected, as the fairies aren’t the cutesy type you find in Disney films.\u00a0 The story quickly wraps up with a violent, unexpected ending.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Unseemly <\/em>does what a good short story or novella is supposed to do: hook the readers with a quick setup, dose them with excitement, and end it with a twist or two.\u00a0 There’s just enough story to assist the reader in forming opinions about the main characters, the ending is unexpected enough to not be predictable, and the story moves quickly, leaving out overly-detailed explanations.\u00a0 The one place a bit more elaboration would have helped is the fairies-to-monsters part, which was a little hard to visualize from a reader’s perspective with the amount of description provided.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Overall, a good, quick story, good enough to easily justify the paperback price of $5.50.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Contains: violence, mild gore, profanity<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Reviewed by Murray Samuelson<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Unseemly by Jason Parent Corpus Press, 2016 ISBN: 9781523980307 Available: Paperback, Kindle edition\u00a0\u00a0(\u00a0Bookshop.org |\u00a0Amazon.com ) Unseemly is a nice little story that uses creatures rarely seen in horror stories as its backbone: fairies.\u00a0 In a quick 59 pages, the authors crams in the story of a group of academics\/grave robbers out to find<\/p>\n