Collected Stories

By Maurice Level

A remorseful visitor enters a confined room to face the blind, disfigured man whose injuries she caused. Memory, altered perception and concealed revenge tighten the encounter in "The Last Kiss", where theatrical dialogue and sensory limitation turn proximity into menace. Across this collection, suffering is not kept at a safe distance: it is rendered through stark physical detail, charged silences and the fear that catastrophe may arrive without warning. Elsewhere, two severely disabled brothers keep a candlelit vigil over their dead sister in a hovel near a city, unable fully to comprehend the disturbing circumstances around them. Such claustrophobic settings intensify the isolation of figures constrained by their bodies, their surroundings or their own obsessions. Guilt and remorse press against morbid fascination, while irony and sensational reversals repeatedly unsettle any expectation of safety or certainty. From confined interiors to Paris, these horror short stories draw psychological drama into Gothic shadow and suspense. The focus shifts among the injured, the isolated and the dangerously fascinated, yet each narrative remains alert to the instant when observation becomes complicity, fear becomes fixation or an apparently controlled situation turns threatening. Precise dialogue, restricted perception and sudden reversals give the collection its distinctive tension, making suffering both an immediate physical reality and a source of relentless uncertainty. This book was out of print for decades and is now republished by Alpha Editions. It has been restored for today's and future generations. This edition is not just a reprint - it's a collector's item and a cultural treasure.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9378411878
• ISBN13: 9789378411878
• Release Date: January 2027
• Publisher: Alpha Edition
• Length: 22 Pages
• Weight: 0.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"