The Bone Mother

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Three neighboring villages on the Ukrainian Romanian border are the final refuge for the last of the mythical creatures of Eastern Europe Now, on the eve of the war that may eradicate their kind and with the ruthless Night Police descending upon their sanctuary they tell their stories and confront their destinies. Free Read The Bone Mother by David Demchuk For Kindle ePUB or eBook – kino-fada.fr This book is a must have for lovers of horror especially if you enjoy folklore creepy, dark folklore.I m of Bohemian decent, so the Romani influence and language here was a specific treat for me This book is a big picture story as well as many individual stories which are interconnected and help to develop the big picture But I don t want to reveal too much because most of the fun is discovering a new author s voice narrative and style and story for yourself.Some of these stories scared m This book is a must have for lovers of horror especially if you enjoy folklore creepy, dark folklore.I m of Bohemian decent, so the Romani influence and language here was a specific treat for me This book is a big picture story as well as many individual stories which are interconnected and help to develop the big picture But I ...This one kind of got away from me I was very engrossed in the first half but then I sort of started to feel like I was waiting for somethingSome of the stories are fantastically eerie even despite their simplicity, but others were less striking and seemed a bitlike filler There s not really a solid thread connecting all the stories beyond the ominous thimble factory and the different monsters that appear throughout I would definitely recommend it still as I think many people in This one kind of got away from me I was very engrossed in the first half but then I sort of started to feel like I was waiting for somethingSome of ...I eagerly anticipated the release of THE BONE MOTHER for months, and I am happy to say that this book blew me away So original and so scary, it has everything myth, magic, horror, history, etc The antique photos really give an added feeling of realism to this fine collection Highly recommended.This book was sent from the publisher to the Night Worms reading group in exchange for an honest review The Bone Mother is a collection of interconnected Eastern European folktales Each story has an old photograph before it, in the same fashion as Miss Peregrine s Home for Peculiar Children It often felt as if Demchuk discovered the photographs and then wrote his stories based on the unknown people in the pictures.These stories are dark, and most of them involve mythological creatures from Uk This book was sent from the publisher to the Night Worms reading group in exchange for an honest review The Bone Mother is a collection of interconnected Eastern European folktales Each story has an old photograph before it, in the same fashion as Miss Peregrine s Home for Peculiar Children It often felt as if Demchuk discovered the photographs and then wrote his stories based on the unknown people in the pictures.These stories are dark, and most of them involve mythological creatures from Ukrainian and Romanian folklore A few of them were familiar to me If you read or watched the television series The Strain, by Guillermo del Torro, you probably remember the vampire in that story was referred to as a Strigoi I was actually surprised that I knew a few of these creatures already, and the ones that were unfamilia...With each story adding a new voice to the chorus, David Demchuk has built an eerie portrait of an Eastern European village where the myths aren t just myths anyThe stories are frequently unsettling just as much for their portrait of humanity as for the monsters who live with them side by side but there was a folklorish feeling to them that was almost comfortable.Definitely one I d recommend to any horror fans with the patience to allow a picture to be built brick by brick and story by With each story adding a new voice to the chorus, David Demchuk has built an eerie portrait of an Eastern European village where the myths aren t just myths anyThe stories are frequently unsettling just as much for their portrait of humanity as for the monsters who live with them s... This was many years ago, back in the first land, when my grandmother was still alive and I was a small child I would be sent to visit her in the woods, and while she was cooking she would tell me stories of the Bone Mother The little girl came up to the Bone Mother s house and knocked on the heavy wooden door It opened all by itself and the little girl, who was very much like you, saw the Bone Mother at her giant wood stove There she stood, throwing handfuls of vegetables in a big black pot This was many years ago, back in the first land, when my grandmother was still alive and I was a small child I would be sent to visit her in the woods, and while she was cooking she would tell me stories of the Bone Mother The little girl came up to the Bone Mother s house and knocked on the heavy wooden door It opened all by itself and the little girl, who was very much like you, saw the Bone Mot...Horror people read it It s deliciously scary, creepy and unsettling 4.5 stars. The Bone Mother is a very unique set of interconnected short stories Each story begins with an old and often haunting portrait or illustration and each is told from the first person The stories have a dark aura, but often the true depth of the darkness isn t uncovered until the very end Demchuk certainly has a flair for making the reader feel as though they ve missed a step in the dark feeling that strange plummeting of your stomach, the truth of what you though you knew ripped out from und The Bone Mother is a very unique set of interconnected short stories Each story begins with an old and often haunting portrait or illustration and each is told from the first person The stories have a dark aura, but often the true depth of the darkness isn t uncovered until the very end Demchuk certainly has a flair for making the reader feel as though they ve missed a step in the dark feeling that strange plummeting of your stomach, the truth of what ...A study in compression, most of the lightly interlinked stories in this collection manage to convey a carefully developed folkloric weird tale arc in four or five pages with a spare simplicity that probably resulted from a lot of paring and refining of theme and narrative Honestly, I could have stood for a little less paring and simplicity, as many of these stories were intriguing enough to warrant development On the other hand, if each was given twice the length, it would bloat and break the A study in compressi...Thank you Chizine Publications for providing the Night Worms free copies of The Bone Mother in exchange for honest reviews.The Bone Mother was very enjoyable Dark folklore stories set in Eastern European villages YES PLEASE These are actually a bunch of little stories that come together to make a bigger story I chose to read it as a novel and it seemed to work well Each little story begins with an illustration What I liked about the illustrations was they set the foundation for the often c Thank you Chizine Publications for providing the Night Worms free copies of The Bone Mother in exchange for honest reviews.The Bone Mother was very enjoyable Dark folklore stories set in Eastern European villages YES PLEASE These are actually a bunch of little stories that come together to make a bigger story I chose to read it as a novel and it seemed to work well ...

The Bone Mother
  • English
  • 09 July 2018
  • Paperback
  • 240 pages
  • 1771484217
  • David Demchuk
  • The Bone Mother