The Clearing of Travis Coble
by:
Jonathan Janz (author)
Travis Coble didn’t kill and eat his family. At least that’s what a jury decided twenty years ago. But like Lizzie Borden, Travis Coble was branded guilty by an angry public and consigned to a life of suspicious whispers and sidelong stares. Now, Professor Dick Myers wants to clear Travis’s name...
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Travis Coble didn’t kill and eat his family. At least that’s what a jury decided twenty years ago. But like Lizzie Borden, Travis Coble was branded guilty by an angry public and consigned to a life of suspicious whispers and sidelong stares. Now, Professor Dick Myers wants to clear Travis’s name once and for all. An interview with the reclusive mountain man would not only bring Myers fame—it could save his job.But Myers will find more than a good story in Coble’s isolated shack in the Smoky Mountains. He will find the truth about what happened twenty years ago...and the true meaning of horror.A new work of terror from the author of the worldwide bestseller Old Order.
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Format: ebook
ISBN:
9781611875232
Publish date: March 5th 2013
Publisher: Untreed Reads
Pages no: 25
Edition language: English
An excellent early short from one of my new favourite writers, Jonathan Janz, The Clearing of Travis Coble is everything you want a backwoods, redneck, fish-out-of-water, horror story to be. Coble is written especially strongly, and while the direction the narrative takes might be fairly obvious, th...
Everything a successful short should be. Zero filler and lots of character, packed into a compact format. Very nicely done.