Dread Softly — Caryn Larrinaga

A woman struggles to outsmart the demon who bargained for her father's soul. An elderly shut-in with a monstrous secret is tormented by a door-to-door salesman. Six-eyed creatures congregate on the ceiling of a remote bungalow, puzzling a newly rescued tabby cat. An imp's loyalties are torn between a vulnerable child and the god of dreams. In her debut horror collection, award-winning author Caryn Larrinaga spreads her nightmares under your feet. Fed by the dread her anxiety brings her, each of these eleven tales is a journey into an unsettling universe just parallel to our own—one populated by haunted objects, unwanted urges, and creatures from beyond human understanding. Dread softly. A stunning collection of stories.... Each page turns another corner through Larrinaga's dark and vivid imagination.—Sonora Taylor, award-winning author of Little Paranoias: Stories These 11 tales are delightfully dark and full of unnerving surprises—Well Worth a Read Reviews Larrinaga has a way of taking you into strange, fantastical POVs without ever making you wonder how you got there…—Fallen Fiction Reviews A captivating collection—Margin of Terror Disturbing scary stories told without relying on guts and gore—Advance the Plot Reviews