THE ROOTS RUN DEEP
C.M. Forest
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GENRE: Horror Short Story Collection
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BLURB:
Dug
from the twisted mind of C.M. Forest, the acclaimed author of Infested, comes a
collection of 15 horror stories that will drag you into the abyss of fear and
despair.
A
fast-food playland with a nightmarish secret, a greenhouse with a bug problem,
a busload of kids lost in the woods, a trip through the solar system to
investigate a strange comet, and many more.
Brace
yourself for an unrelenting journey through a world where evil knows no bounds,
and darkness consumes all.
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Excerpt
Three:
“Lily!
Your mom is not going to be happy with Daddy if I don’t get you home, honey.”
Robert
drummed his fingers on the lip of the plastic rim entrance to the playland. He
leaned into the opening and listened for any sound at all.
“Lily?”
A
terrible thought came to him. What if someone’s taken her?
He
shook his head to dislodge the idea from his brain. But a growing level of
unease, like some dank fungus flourishing in the darkest of places, kept the
horrible possibility present in his mind.
“Lily,
this isn’t funny, baby.” Robert stuck his head farther into the hole, and his
voice immediately echoed back at him, a dozen clones parroting his words.
Panic,
the likes of which Robert wouldn’t have thought possible—certainly not so
quickly anyway—arced through his body. He yelled again into the structure.
Nothing.
Not
even the smallest knock or scratch to indicate there was anything alive in the
playland at all.
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Answer: The first one that comes to mind is
the reveal of the people buried on the beach in What the Storm Brought In. I
can very much recall the moment that scene came into my head. I was folding
laundry when, as clear as day, I had this image of a person walking on a beach
and finding people buried in the sand. Not dead people, mind you, but living
people that very much wanted to remain buried. Why? I didn’t know at the time.
But I thought such a discovery would be so bizarre, so off-putting, that I had
to see where it led. Now, with the story long finished, I still enjoy that
scene so much because it captured the quiet horror I was going for.
AUTHOR Bio and Links:
C.M. Forest, also known as Christian Laforet, is the author of the
novel Infested, the novella We All Fall Before the Harvest, the short story
collection The Space Between Houses, as well as the co-author of the
short-story collection No Light Tomorrow. His short fiction has been featured
in several anthologies across multiple genres. A self-proclaimed horror movie
expert, he spent an embarrassing amount of his youth watching scary movies.
When not writing, he lives in Ontario, Canada with his wife, kids, three cats
and a pandemic dog named Sully who has an ongoing love affair with a blanket.
Website: http://www.ChristianLaforet.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/authorchristianlaforet
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/christianlaforet/
Twitter: http://twitter.com/c_laforet
TikTok: http://www.tiktok.com/@christian_writes_horror
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