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GHOST GAMES
 
Ghost GamesBrooke MacKenziePaperbackDo not play this game. This is the standard disclaimer given to anyone who wishes to encounter the supernatural through a potentially dangerous ritual, or "game." It sounds innocent enough, as each one is named after an everyday object: the closet game, the elevator game, the telephone game...how scary can it really be? As it turns out, games can be terrifying. And even deadly. Ghost Games is a collection of short horror fiction stories in which each of the main characters decides to throw caution to the wind and play a game in which she summons the paranormal: ghosts, demons, and even other dimensions. What happens next will make you think twice before riding in an elevator, playing with a doll, looking in a mirror, or soaking in a bathtub. There are seven spine-tingling fictional stories - with each one devoted to a specific game - and one non-fiction story, which recounts a real-life experience with a Ouija Board. For the brave and curious, there is an appendix section which outlines the instructions for playing each of the games featured in the book. If you decide to try them, remember: you play at your peril. For more information about the games, visit the author's website: www.bamackenzie.com
Ghost GamesBrooke MacKenzieEbookDo not play this game. This is the standard disclaimer given to anyone who wishes to encounter the supernatural through a potentially dangerous ritual, or “game.” It sounds innocent enough, as each one is named after an everyday object: the closet game, the elevator game, the telephone game…how scary can it really be? As it turns out, games can be terrifying. And even deadly. Ghost Games is a collection of short horror fiction stories in which each of the main characters decides to throw caution to the wind and play a game in which she summons the paranormal: ghosts, demons, and even other dimensions. What happens next will make you think twice before riding in an elevator, playing with a doll, looking in a mirror, or soaking in a bathtub. There are seven spine-tingling fictional stories – with each one devoted to a specific game – and one non-fiction story, which recounts a real-life experience with a Ouija Board. For the brave and curious, there is an appendix section which outlines the instructions for playing each of the games featured in the book. If you decide to try them, remember: you play at your peril. For more information about the games, visit the author’s website: www.bamackenzie.com
THE SCARY ABECEDARY
 
The Scary AbecedaryBrooke MacKenziePaperback"With 26 poems teased from skin and tissue and veiny threads, Brooke MacKenzie's The Scary Abecedary resounds with brutality, fragility, and fear. A startling debut and a lesson for our times." -Lee Murray, four-time Bram Stoker Award?-winner and author of Tortured Willows Abecedary [ ey-bee-see-duh-ree ]: The alphabet, written out in a teaching book, or carved on a wall; a primer There are so many frightening things And in imposing an alphabetic structure onto them, I am attempting to control and contain them. It is a futile effort to make everything seem less scary Each letter of the alphabet has been assigned a fright. Sometimes the poems are scary, sometimes they're gruesome, sometimes subversive, Sometimes deeply personal Because the definition of "scary" shifts and changes depending upon The layers of feelings and experiences and moods That cover our eyes like a film at any given moment Our lenses shift and our pupils dilate and our minds go along for the ride But there are so many frightening things And they seem to multiply with each passing day?. Will we ever be safe again? Were we ever really safe at all?
My Website
Brooke MacKenzie's Macabre Musings (Substack newsletter)
Fiction4All - My publisher's website (you can buy my books here)
HORROR REALM Interview
Louie b. Free Radio Show (May 24th)
Night's End Podcast: The Elevator Game
Night's End Podcast: The Boundary Waters
Kirkus Reviews: Magazine Feature