Elizabeth Massie
Author of Power Of Persuasion
About the Author
Works by Elizabeth Massie
An Encyclopedia of Animals (On Our Way to English, Science Guided Reading, Level M) (2007) 33 copies
Stephen [short fiction] 7 copies
Buffy: a Irmandade 2 copies
African-American Educators (Major Black Contributions from Emancipation to Civil Rights) (2013) 2 copies
Brazen Bull 2 copies
Brazo de Dios 2 copies
Damaged Goods {short story} 1 copy
Wild at Art 1 copy
Uw wil geschiede (turors 3) 1 copy
M Is for the Many Things 1 copy
Forever, Amen 1 copy
Aberrations 1 copy
Pinkie 1 copy
Beggars At Dawn 1 copy
Read All About It! 1 copy
Flip Flap 1 copy
Day Is Done Gone The Sun 1 copy
Associated Works
Beyond Rue Morgue Anthology: Further Tales of Edgar Allan Poe's 1st Detective (2013) — Contributor — 54 copies
Mister October: An Anthology in Memory of Rick Hautala (Volumes 1 and 2) (2013) — Contributor — 17 copies
Professor Charlatan Bardot's Travel Anthology to the Most (Fictional) Haunted Buildings in the Weird, Wild World (2021) — Contributor — 15 copies
A Haunting of Horrors: A Twenty-Novel eBook Bundle of Horror and the Occult (2014) — Contributor — 11 copies
Piercing the Darkness: A Charity Horror Anthology for the Children's Literacy Initiative (2014) — Contributor — 7 copies
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Common Knowledge
- Legal name
- Massie, Elizabeth Jane Spilman
- Other names
- Blaine, Chris
Massie, Beth - Birthdate
- 1953
- Gender
- female
- Nationality
- USA
- Birthplace
- Waynesboro, Virginia, USA
- Places of residence
- Waynesboro, Virginia, USA
- Education
- Ferrum Junior College
Madison College (Elementary Education) - Occupations
- teacher
- Organizations
- Amnesty International
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Elizabeth Massie? in Thing(amabrarian)s That Go Bump in the Night (October 2008)
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Statistics
- Works
- 79
- Also by
- 54
- Members
- 1,381
- Popularity
- #18,624
- Rating
- 3.6
- Reviews
- 28
- ISBNs
- 117
- Languages
- 8
Massie is capable of writing disturbing, powerful and moving stories, but many of these felt low-brow and comic-bookish. Here are some of the standouts:
"Stephen": A social worker forges a relationship with one of the more unusual patients in a youth rehabilitation center.
"In the Cow Pasture": Two sisters and a friend decide to dig a hole through to hell in their backyard.
"Brazo de Dios": A missionary finds her faith tested when she is abducted by a group of militants in South America.
"Products of the Past": New kids on the block learn that certain houses are best avoided.
"The Fear Report": A college student uses an unwitting and superstitious family as the subject of her study.
"Hot Orgy of the Caged Virgins": A tale of sexual experimentation among a group of backwoods teens.
"Fixtures of Matchstick Men and Joo:" At the height of the Vietnam War, a man and a teenaged girl gradually discover the sinister truth about the commune at which they've sought refuge.
The other stories run from "okay" to...not so okay, but the good thing is that they are all quick reads. This volume contains about twice as many stories as Massie's earlier collection, [b:Shadow Dreams|685592|Shadow Dreams|Elizabeth Massie|http://d.gr-assets.com/books/1177180879s/685592.jpg|671965], but it isn't nearly as strong overall. I suggest seeking that one out first.
On a side note, this edition (like many small press books) is absolutely littered with typographical and formatting errors. Line breaks and punctuation occur (or don't occur) randomly, a character's name changes in the middle of a story and then back again, "Blessed Sleep" is mistitled "Blessed Sheep" and there are even a couple editor's notations left in the text. I don't understand why I can buy a cheap mass-market paperback that is flawless and pay $40 for a collector's edition that has a nice signature page but looks like it was typeset by a drunken monkey on drugs.… (more)