Flesh Party: Five Monstrous Horror Stories

Title: Flesh Party: Five Monstrous Horror Stories
Author: Jordan Thiery
First Published: December 1, 2024
Publisher: Self-Published
Pages: 206
Genre: Horror, Short Stories, Supernatural
Format: eARC
Source: Review Request
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Synopsis:

Ghosts, Werewolves, Vampires, Lake Monsters, Cosmic Creatures, and the Dead. Monsters are everywhere, hiding in the dark waiting for their time in the light. Included in this collection:

A Green Dress in Tatters
Matt's world has been shattered by a recent breakup, sending him fleeing to a peculiar hotel to clear his head. As he seeks refuge, he sees things that can’t be real. The apparitions grow increasingly vivid and insistent, blurring the line between what is real, and what lies beyond.

Beneath the Skin
Warren joins his family and friends for a weekend camping trip. At first everything seems fine. But as the night wears on, everyone's true selves emerge, and who Warren was may not survive the night.

Flesh Party
Jason is looking for a late night hook up with a pretty girl. He might just get lucky. However, while soft skin may be on the menu, it might not be the kind he had in mind... and it might be his.

Under Thin Ice
Liam’s brother died by drowning. At least that’s what everyone seems to believe. Liam knows what really happened though, and he intends to prove everyone wrong. Because he knows... whatever’s under the ice has sinister intentions.

A Stitch in Time
Mallory is in a race against time, battling a terminal lung disease that threatens to take her life. Before she succumbs to her illness, she must save her granddaughter from the creature that's haunted her since she was a young woman. With the clock ticking, will Mallory find a way to secure her granddaughter's safety? Or will the creature win?

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Review

Flesh Party is Jordan Thiery’s second themed short story collection, this time featuring a range of different monsters, both the classics and original creations. The characters in Thiery’s stories are complex, with feelings and motivations that I could empathize with. The stories are engaging and each new story is a treat, I really enjoy reading one story a night before bed.

Thiery is quickly becoming one of my favorite new writers consistently writing fresh and original stories with a high degree of polish. I’m fully on board with reading everything that he publishes. This is an author you shouldn’t sleep on!

Individual Story Notes:

♥ A Green Dress in Tatters: A character drama set in an unusual and remote hotel with a mysterious painting. The protagonist’s spiraling narrative about the loss of his relationship, searching for the reasons that it all fell apart, leads the way in this story. The main character’s broken love story accurately portrayed some of the difficulties of dating in the modern age, and I thought that it was explored well.

♥ Beneath the Skin: I didn’t know what to expect, but I really enjoyed this one. The main character gets wrangled into the annual boys’ camping trip with his brothers-in-law and their friends. The “male bonding” in this story was extremely toxic and it made me glad to be a woman. I had an inkling of what this story would be about, but I was pleasantly surprised by the ending.

♥ Flesh Party: A serial womanizer gets his comeuppance in this shockingly gorey short. I loved the monsters in this story, and my goodness the ending was perfectly executed, I couldn’t stop thinking about it for days after I finished reading.

♥ Under Thin Ice: This was easily my favorite story in the collection, without contest. The beginning of the story was unnerving, and I was immediately hooked. Coming of age grief horror with a snowy setting, and an aquatic monster beyond human understanding, this checked every single box for me. This short story touched my heart in every way, and there were times I teared up or felt stressed out with worry for the main character, Liam. I loved every second of this story, it is easily one of the best that I’ve ever read of this particular genre.

♥ A Stitch in Time: This story was simply so much fun to read, I absolutely adored Grandma Mal and her battle with the strange creature haunting her family. I had no idea what to expect and I was so pleasantly surprised, it was easily one of the most fascinating family curse stories I’ve read.

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