Chilling Tales at The eh List Author Series
Two authors with chilling stories visit The eh List Author Series next week, and you might just want to bring a friend along to the readings…
Robert J. Wiersema is a a newish Victoria, BC writer with a very disturbing tale to tell. Bedtime Story isn't exactly the sort of thing you want to read to your restless seven-year-old to help her sleep. In fact, after reading this book, you may NEVER want to read a bedtime story to a kid again! In this creepy tale, young David isn't a good reader, and has no interest in the new 'old book' his father gave him for his birthday. So, his dad takes things in hand and reads, each night, to David as a treat, to help him learn to love reading, and to help him sleep.
None of this works out the way anyone expects. While David struggles, trapped inside the story, his paren'ts wrestle with the outside world to sort out what happened to their now-comatose son, and to do what they can'to bring him back to the land of the living. What happens is delightfully creepy and proves to introduce new twists in a genre where new is very hard to manage.
If you haven't read Joy Fielding's novels, you might be surprised to find that they are pretty chilling, too. But don't expect any supernatural twists in her newest book, 'The Wild Zone'. The characters are disturbing enough in THIS world without having to cross over into any sort of otherworldly fantasy.
Three pals hang out at a Miami bar called The Wild Zone. When a new woman regularly turns up for weekday drinks, they make a bet on who will be the first to get past first base with her. Well, as we suspect, she isn't really the bunt-and-run type. In fact, baseball isn't even her favorite sport. The boys have caught a tigress by the tail and spend more time squabbling with each other than attending to the kitten who might just eat them before she saunters into right field.
It's a great story, with the requisit twists, turns and surprises which will keep you guessing right to the end.
You'll have to read the books to get the whole story, but you can meet the authors right now!
Weirsema will read at North York Central Library on Wednesday (Nov. 10 at 7 PM); while Joy Fielding holds court at S. Walter Stewart branch (Wed. Nov. 10 7 PM). They will read together at Toronto Reference Library on Thursday, Novemeber 11 at 7 PM.
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