THE HA OF HA CONTENTS AND REVIEWS

Contents List & Introduction

“Can you recall the lasting effect of the most deeply disturbing collection of horror stories you’ve ever encountered? The narratives join hands…” — From THE USELESS by Dominy Clements

“Every book has a soul. The soul of the person who wrote it and of those who read it and lived and dreamed with it. Every time a book changes hands, every time someone runs his eyes down its pages, its spirit grows and strengthens.” —from ‘The Shadow Of The Wind’ by Carlos Ruiz Zafon

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THE LAST DITCH

All stories are original to the Ha of Ha and are written about fictional Horror Anthologies that, as books, are real to the stories’ characters:

(THE LINKS  BELOW ARE TO SOME OF THE REVIEWS OF EACH STORY – WITH MY  OWN COMMENTS ON EACH STORY HERE)

Colleen Anderson – IT’S ONLY WORDS 3414

Daniel Ausema – TREE RING ANTHOLOGY 2066

Dominy Clements – THE USELESS 3463

Rhys Hughes – TEARS OF THE MUTANT JESTERS 1852

Colin Insole – THE APOPLEXY OF BEELZEBUB 5456

Nick Jackson – PAPER CUTS 4097

Rachel Kendall – HORROR STORIES FOR BOYS 3215

AJ Kirby – COMMON MYTHS AND MISCONCEPTIONS REGARDING RITA KENDALL 10004

Joel Lane – MIDNIGHT FLIGHT 3223

E. Michael Lewis – THE FIFTH CORNER 3866

Tony Lovell – THE FOLLOWER 7330

David Mathew – RESIDUA 10723

Christopher Morris – THE AMERICAN CLUB 6828

Mike O’Driscoll – THE REDISCOVERY OF DEATH 9201

Reggie Oliver – FLOWERS OF THE SEA 6295

Rosanne Rabinowitz – THE PEARL AND THE BOIL 10023

Clayton Stealback – THE WRITER 8487

S.D. Tullis – HORROR PLANET 3703

Mark Valentine – YOU WALK THE PAGES 3138

D.P. Watt – ALL HIS WORLDLY GOODS 6842

I am confident that many of these stories will become classics of this genre.

A total of around 113,000 words.

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The Book’s Electronic Introduction

This is a basic, no frills, no-introduction, highly adequate, perfect-bound paperback book, conveying its wonderful stories and strikingly brilliant photo images. Ironically, yet meaningfully, this delightful handleable real book with hauntingly memorable items of short horror fiction plotted around real horror anthology books has only been made possible by basic electronic facilities in necessary tune with whatever skills I have as editor, typesetter and publisher – and it serves as something that will never become an E-Book. And the lasting image is just that – on page 323 where the book ends.

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PS: The HA of HA book is also the last ditch stand against ebooks?…