Pestilence by Jason Jordan


Pestilence
Title : Pestilence
Author :
Rating :
ISBN : 0977873234
ISBN-10 : 9780977873234
Language : English
Format Type : Paperback
Number of Pages : 58
Publication : First published May 7, 2013

A boy whose skin is multiple colors. A home that freezes in the middle of summer. A pair of brothers who witness the apocalypse and attempt to fight it. A boy with four arms. A rogue wave that destroys a landlocked city. A house whose occupants experience different plagues each day. The six stories that populate this chapbook slough off the notion of reality, replacing it with an unsettling irreality that may be, upon closer inspection, the work of something sinister. What cannot be explained must still be endured. And so, let there be pestilence.

Pestilence Reviews

  • Peter Tieryas

    My review at HTMLGiant:

    "Strange situations infect the stories in Jason Jordan’s Pestilence and the unusual premise of each tale blends the surreal with everyday life in a disturbingly enchanting mix."


    http://htmlgiant.com/reviews/pestilen...

  • Ben Spivey

    A quick and entertaining read of weird stories worth revisiting.

  • Christina Baker jones

    Such an interesting collection of short stories full of unique imagination. My only wish is that there were more stories in the collection.

  • Anna

    Overall, I loved the creativity in this collection of short stories. The reason why I gave two stars, though, is simply because I'm not a huge fan of short stories. I like a big book that I can read all day in which there's a major plot and I become attached to the characters.
    However, each story was very unique and interesting. I've never read anything remotely close to them, which was good. I feel like if the author wanted, he could craft the ideas in this story into something bigger that I'd want to read.
    I received a copy of this book for free through a giveaway/Goodreads First Reads.

  • Kristin

    I was expecting creepy stories, and that's definitely not what I got. They're just... weird. I don't know any better way to describe it. A few of the stories don't even make sense. It all seems very amateur, exactly like a college student writing for a literary magazine, except worse. I'm glad I didn't pay for this.

  • Laura Ellen

    Classic Jason Jordan--his storytelling is just about flawless. The book is beautiful, but too damn short.

  • Vanessa Mcgee

    Apologies I was not too keen on these stories, they left me feeling a bit lost afterward