The Curse of the Kudzu by Stephen R. Bonniol

Title: The Curse of the Kudzu: and other stories of horror and suspense
Author: Stephen R. Bonniol
Genres: Horror and Supernatural
Audience: All ages
Released: 9/9/2024
Price (USD): $18.99 Paperback, $22.50 Hardcover

Vibes: The twilight zone or things that make you scream WTF!

Synopsis:

Twenty-one stories of Horror and weirdness along with some to make you ask, “What the F?” Many of them are part of the Brown University HP Lovecraft Collection.

Descend into the horror of a man preyed upon by an evil plant alien to the planet, a vine with consciousness intent on overtaking the Earth in The Curse of the Kudzu. Or see how it feels to be boiled alive in Mist on Copplecrown Pond. Then if you’re ready for something brutally gruesome, see Mr. Johnson at the Crossroads. You’re forgiven if you need to squeeze your legs together! Maybe you can calm down a bit by reading how a small boy could destroy Earth in Sandbox and if you’re curious, read about a tortured man, a man coming to grips with the awareness that he was not a man but a machine in Steel and Glass. Read about a Mafia killer Salvatore, “Sally the Bug” Buglio, haunted by his late friend, “Jerry the Irishman,” a man he recently killed and stuffed in his trunk. Or see what happens when a wartime head injury brings a man back to his childhood home, in The Lost Patrol.

Bear witness to a strange car which makes people disappear, in The Dark Sedan. Then you’ll be ready for the tragic tale of five men lost in the otherworldly confines of the Hockomock Swamp, where skunk bear lives alongside snakes as thick as telephone poles and prehistoric birds capable of carrying a man off. A strange place where the points of the compass change from day to day, and where a strange, mold seems to start growing on the men of the Swamp Journal. Then read how sometimes a cat 5 Hurricane can unleash more than just wind and rain in Irma’s Deliverance, or if you dare, read about six men abducted by aliens in Incident at Lehigh Tannery.

Maybe you’d like to get rescued by a mermaid in 1983 or see what happens to man and beast when inexplicably, all daylight disappears in Darkness at the Break of Day.

Then witness the beginning volley of war against a reptilian horde in The Signpost up Ahead, while on the other side of town the horror continues in Go Green where an entire neighborhood, and its inhabitants is being recycled back to nature.

Then what if the strongest telescope on Earth revealed an extraordinary secret? What if our entire universe existed on a laboratory slide of epic proportions? Then read the tragic story of a mind-controlled killer on his way to eliminate his next hapless victim, his ex, and he is powerless to stop, or warn her in any way in I am Coming to Kill You.

Also there’s the story of a strange, powerful love across time and space in Universal Heart then finish with the tragedy of The Trial. These stories and a few others are guaranteed to make you cringe or just say “WHOA!”