Liam Hogan was abandoned in a library at the tender age of 3, only to emerge blinking into the sunlight many years later, with a head full of words and an aversion to loud noises. He's a co-host of the award winning monthly literary event, Liars' League, and the winner of Quantum Shorts 2015 and Sci-Fest LA's Roswell Award 2016. He lives in London, tweets at @LiamJHogan and dreams in Dewey Decimals.
Happy Ending NOT Guaranteed "is fun and funny, scary and exciting.
It contains 27 consistently engaging pieces of entertaining
fiction" - Scott Manley Hadley at www.openpen.co.uk (http:
//www.openpen.co.uk/happyendingnotguaranteed/) "Fabulous
fables!
'Twenty-seven tales of dark fantasy' is what the back cover blurb
promises, and boy does Hogan deliver. There's not a dull page in
this tight, cunning, well-chosen collection, which ranges from
truly disturbing body-horror in Greenwich, Noon to sinister
flirtations with faeries in Gean Canach, via smart updates of
classical mythology (Time, the Devourer), modern urban weird (Bring
Rope) and even a wicked riff on Dickens, in which Scrooge's
generosity nearly undoes him ...
There are too many excellent stories to list, and there's humour as
well as chills, but my standout favourite has the be The Sword
Master - a perfectly-told fable, clever and inexorable as
clockwork, which feels as though you've always known it somehow -
and for an original folk tale, that is the highest compliment I can
give. Buy this book for yourself, or the fantasy and/or short
fiction lover(s) in your life, and you'll reap some genuinely rich
fictional rewards." - Laura Lague at Goodreads (https:
//www.goodreads.com/book/show/34834516-happy-ending-not-guaranteed)
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