Review: The author managed to show good talent for suspense and creation of a tense mystery…
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 09 5, 2013
If you are wondering how a combination of Twilight Zone and E.A. Poe would look like, I recommend that you read “The death in the elevator” by author David W. Brown.Brown is a new author and his debut story comes together with other 13 shorter horror/mystery stories in this Kindle edition that share similar motives of occult, afterlife and revenge.The story behind double meaning title is about several people that got stuck in the elevator. Although they live in same building, some of them even on the same floor they barely know each other. When they will try to get out through the opening on the top of the elevator, through the opening a corpse of unknown young man will fall to them. Although at first it seems that no one but the narrator doesn’t know him, after the conversation starts in this claustrophobic setting every one of them will be recalled that not only know the guy, but know at least one odd little thing that will eventually lead to the shocking truth who he was and how he died. But it will not be all for the reader because at the story end another strange twist awaits…With his first published work the author managed to show good talent for suspense and creation of a tense mystery plot. The story would need to take a bit work in terms of editing, due to the grammatical and spelling errors but this could be expected from self-published work.Nevertheless, his story can be recommended due to literary style, a way in which the plot was developed and atmosphere he was able to create.It will be interesting to see a direction in which his talent will take him…