Review: Stories from the twisted and fun mind of an author
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 07 12, 2014
My first introduction to Edwin Stark's work was through "The Karaoke Duo Vs The Karaoke Zombies" and "Aftermath and Other Zombie Shorts" so you may understand that I was expecting more of his tongue-in-cheek humor in Cuentos. I was pleasantly surprised to see that Edwin's talents also lie is more serious fiction as well, as Cuentos shows.Cuentos is a collection of short stories that entertain you starting with vampires and ending with a device that can change the Universe. In between, you see a few more vampires, a few stories of ghosts and cannibals and then he ends the book with a Science Fiction collection that contains clones, colonization, and a "vacation" through the mind of someone so completely insane that nine other therapists have either become trapped in his mind... or have been eaten. I'll let you decide which.I highly recommend this for anyone who wants something a little darker but still fun. Edwin has a unique writing style that shines through all of his stories, and he finds a way to make you laugh even when you know that you really shouldn't be laughing at what happened. This short story collection has also made me interested in some of his other books that he mentions (where the short stories were the starting off point for other longer stories to come) so I will be happily adding more of his works to my collection.