The Visible Filth

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When Will discovers a cell phone after a violent brawl his life descends into a nightmare.Affable, charismatic and a little shallow, he s been skating across the surface of life in a state of carefully maintained contentment He decides to keep the cell phone just until the owner returns and everything changes Then the messages begin.Will s discovered something unspeakable and it s crawling slowly into the light. Download The Visible Filth By Nathan Ballingrud – kino-fada.fr This is what horror is made of Incomplete, disturbing images on a cell phone Text messages pleading for help Strange sounds that might be talking, or perhaps something else A computer image of a dark, ...Very little of what is classified as horror fiction or contemporary Weird fiction scares me, and that s okay, because I don t read this style of literature to be frightened I don t like to be frightened Truly terrified Who does, really, if we are being totally honest with ourselves There are plenty of undertakings one can pursue if genuine fear not thrills, or shock is the end result, and I don t see me or anyone else I know heading down those paths, either in a literal or me...Having greatly enjoyed Nathan Ballingrud s fantastic story collection North American Lake Monsters it was with perhaps too high a hope that I purchased this chapbook novella.The story leaves too many questions unanswered, not that there is anything wrong with that, however, the reason some things occur within the guidelines of the story itself are totally withheld from the reader.The main character is naive bordering on dumb making foolish decisions which can be ok, however within the context Having greatly enjoyed Nathan Ballingrud s fantastic story collection North American Lake Monsters it was with perhaps too high a hope that I purchased this chapbook novella.The story leaves too many quest...For this review, I am referring to this as The In Visible Filth Throughout most of this novella the entity remained under the surface, just out of reach That can make for good tension in a book, andoften than not I like that slow building of intensity It makes me think something lies just around that next corner, before popping out with a pee in your pants scare Honestly, The Visible Filth did have some of that minus the pee in my pants , but those almost scares were muddled up by t For this review, I am referring to this as The In Visible Filth Throughout most of this novella the entity remained under the surface, just out of reach That can make for good tension in a book, andoften than not I like that slo...There is an undefinable creepy factor at work in this one with muchgoing on than gets translated to the written page You re going to need to read between the lines a little bit You won t be finding any answers either.Well written with finely drawn characters and an increasingly eerie vibe as the tale progressed I dug it, but thought it could have been a lot3 Stars and probablythan that I need to let it gel for a while and reserve the right to adjust my stars at a later ti There is an undefinable creepy factor at work in this one with muchgoing on than gets translated to the written page You re going to need to read between the lines a little bit You won t be finding any answers either.Well written with finely drawn characters and an increasingly eerie vibe as the tale progressed I dug it, but thought it could have been a lot3 Stars and probablythan that I need to let it gel for a...Video Review consider subscribing if you enjoy the content Thank you.A genuinely disturbing novella about a New Orleans bartender with crumbling relationships with two women one he lives with, one he childishly pines for and a crumbling life, really After a nasty bar fight a cell phone with odd disturbing photos and a vide...Rating 4 of fiveMy review of THE VISIBLE FILTH is live today at Expendable Mudge Muses Aloud, better known as my blog Keep the lights on.By witnessing, we become complicit In Nathan Ballingrud s unsettling and captivating novella, The Visible Filth, a simple act, a bit of curiosity, turns into something much darker a poison that seeps into our flesh, unable to look away, a plague brought forth, the page becoming our undoing.Well HELL That was the scariest thing I ve read in quite a while So sensible of me to read it at 10 00 last night, too Bartender Will idly pockets a cell phone while cleaning up after a brawl in his bar He forgets all about it until it receives a few text messages once he s gone home for the night The messages were from somebody named Garrett I think something is in here with me. And then, sent two minutes later I m scared. Whoa, Garrett, me too I got this from ILL after Ballingrud cau Well HELL That was the scariest thing I ve read in quite a while So sensible of me to read it at 10 00 last night, too Bartender Will idly pockets a cell phone while cleaning up after a brawl in his bar He forgets all about it until it receives a few text messages once he s gone home for the night The messages were from somebody named Garrett I think something is in here with me. And then, sent two minutes later I m scared. Whoa, Garrett, me too I got this from ILL after Ballingrud caught my eye with his short story Skullpocket on io9 and am I glad that I did Yes because it s thrillingly well written and scary as all get out, but also no, not at all, because now I have a lot of dark things in my head that kept me from being able to roll over in bed turn my back to the d...

The Visible Filth
  • English
  • 17 May 2018
  • Paperback
  • 68 pages
  • 0957548192
  • Nathan Ballingrud
  • The Visible Filth