Smile So Red and Other Tales of Madness

By Mia Dalia

2024

First Published

4.44

Average Rating

334

Number of Pages

10H08M

Audio Length

From the author of Estate Sale and many other literary nightmares, comes a collection of dark psychological fiction like no other, featuring novelettes and shorter stories that range from horror to suspense to mystery to coming-of-age to thrillers.Smile So Red - a man down on his luck finds a strange graffitied house on his hike, and can't quite seem to leave it behind.Spindel - a twelve-year-old boy suspects that one of the neighbors on his paper route might be a local serial killer and sets off to investigate.Blues for the Soul - a library worker tries to help a troubled young boy and uncovers a terrible truth about his family.Devil's Chord - return to the world of Smile So Red with a meta journey set to the earworm tune of your worst nightmares.Stump - a bullied young boy and a downtrodden family man from the same apartment complex unwittingly find solace in the same area of the local woods, trusting their secrets to the same remnant of an old tree.Flamingos - two sisters must confront their troubled past when a buried memory is triggered by the seemingly innocuous plastic lawn birds.The Trunk - a first-generation immigrant from a war-torn country striving to achieve the American Dream finds something in the basement of his new home that has other ideas for him.Reddest - another return to the world of Smile So Red, albeit from a very different perspective.Go on. Turn the page. Pick a nightmare. I dare you.

Avg Rating

4.44

Number of Ratings

5 STARS

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4 STARS

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Author

Mia Dalia

Author · 6 books

Mia Dalia is an internationally published author, a lifelong reader, and a longtime reviewer of all things fantastic, thrilling, scary, and strange. Her short fiction has been published by online by Night Terror Novels, 50-word stories, Flash Fiction Magazine, Pyre Magazine, Tales from the Moonlit Path and in print anthologies by Sunbury Press, HellBound Press, Black Ink Fiction, Dragon Roost Press, Unsettling Reads, Phobica Books, Psycho Toxin Press,Nightshade Press, and DraculaBeyondStoker Magazine. Her fiction will be featured in the upcoming anthologies by WMB anthology of Lunar Horror, Wandering Wave Press, Off-Topic Publishing, and Crystal Lake Publishing. Mia’s Noir tales have been published by Mystery Magazine and Bang! Noir Anthology from Headshot Press. Her trio of novelette-sized nightmares: Smile So Red, The Trunk, And Spindel are available on Amazon. Her debut novel, Estate Sale, was published by Black Ink Fiction in April 2023. Find her at Official website:https://daliaverse.wixsite.com/author Twitter: @ Dalia_Verse FB: DaliaVerse