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Thumbprint: A Story

av Joe Hill

Serier: Thumbprint (Original short story)

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Fiction. Horror. Short Stories. Thriller. HTML:

A New York Times Bestseller

Thirteen relentless tales of supernatural suspense, including "In the Tall Grass," one of two stories cowritten with Stephen King and the basis for the terrifying feature film from Netflix.

A little door that opens to a world of fairy-tale wonders becomes the blood-drenched stomping ground for a gang of hunters in "Faun." A grief-stricken librarian climbs behind the wheel of an antique Bookmobile to deliver fresh reads to the dead in "Late Returns."

In "By the Silver Water of Lake Champlain"â??now an episode on Shudder TV's Creepshowâ??two young friends stumble on the corpse of a plesiosaur at the water's edge, a discovery that forces them to confront the inescapable truth of their own mortality. And tension shimmers in the sweltering heat of the Nevada desert as a faceless trucker finds himself caught in a sinister dance with a tribe of motorcycle outlaws in "Throttle," cowritten with Stephen King.

Replete with shocking chillers, including two previously unpublished stories written expressly for this volume ("Mums" and "Late Returns") and another appearing in print for the first time ("Dark Carousel"), Full Throttle is a darkly imagined odyssey through the complexities of the human psyche. Hypnotic and disquieting, it mines our tormented secrets, hidden vulnerabilities, and basest fears, and demonstrates this exceptional talent at his very best… (mer)

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Here we are again Mr. Hill, with a book that starts good but with an ending that makes me just as frustrated as the last short story I read written by you. This is so tormenting that I don't know if I should continue with your short stories but I probably will... ( )
  MaraBlaise | Jul 23, 2022 |
A hell of a read for ninety nine cents. It was dark, brutal, and effective. I had initially wished there was more, but now I think it was the perfect length. Hill tackles the Iraqi prisoner torture issue with unflinching detail; certainty not for those who get squeamish reading details of torture and violence. There was also a sample of his newest book which I'll certainly be checking out before too long.

P.S. Hey self, why did you wait so bloody long to read Joe Hill? Honestly! ( )
  sarahlh | Mar 6, 2021 |
I have to say firstly, that I usually don't read many short stories anymore. I like to get involved in the characters, and the storyline in a much more intimate way than the short story format gives you the ability to. I also have to say that I have never been a fan of war-themed anything; novels, movies, what-have-you. So after purchasing Thumbprint for 99 cents at amazon! I was a tiny bit dismayed that the story was about this. But then I thought, hey - this is a Joe Hill story, so it's gotta be good, right?

Well, it is.... For 42 pages. And based on some soldiers after their return from the war..... And their condition. (And that's all I'm telling you!)

It was shocking, a little horrifying, and quite interesting...and I wanted to know what happened next! But then the story was over, and you had to make up your own mind. I don't think I want to go there...... Lol

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  stephanie_M | Apr 30, 2020 |
En la mayoría de formatos audiovisuales nos presentan a los soldados de guerra como héroes, guerreros en armadura plateada. Pero siempre aparecerá alguien: un director, un guionista, un pintor o un escritor que nos muestre el otro lado de la moneda; el lado siniestro y oscuro… aquel que nadie debe de conocer.

Este cuento nos relata exactamente lo que plasmé en el párrafo anterior: una protagonista que participó de alguna manera en la guerra y cuyo pasado trató de dejar atrás cuando volvió a su hogar, dulce hogar.

Mallory Grennan (Mal) regresa a una casa vacía, pues su padre falleció mientras ella regresaba a América. Volvió a un hogar que ahora le pertenecía, junto a un vehículo y todos los recuerdos que trajo consigo desde Iraq.

Mal trata de llevar una vida pacífica, como cualquier ciudadano normal. Consigue un empleo en un bar, se mantiene haciendo ejercicios y trata de llevar una aceptable vida social.

Un día recibe un sobre en el buzón, el sobre contiene las huellas dactilares de un pulgar. Mal se imagina que es una amenaza cualquiera y trata de darle poca importancia. Poco tiempo después, recibe otro sobre debajo del umbral de su puerta, luego otro en el parabrisas de su carro y así sucesivamente, todos conteniendo huellas dactilares de varios pulgares. Su acosador quiere demostrar un punto: Que cada vez está más cerca.

Hasta ahora, todo lo que he leído de Joe Hill me ha encantado: Sus dos novelas, su colección de cuentos y el relato que escribió junto a su padre. Solo me falta dar con sus cómics y ya estoy esperando la novela nueva que se publica en abril.

Ahora bien, de todo lo que he leído de Joe Hill (que no es tanto lo que ha lanzado) Thumbprint es lo que menos me ha gustado. No estoy diciendo que el relato es malo, pero sí digo que pudo haber sido mejor.

Unas páginas más y un final menos abierto quizás le hubiera dado un toque más profesional y merecedor de más elogios de mi parte y toda su comunidad de lectores. Imagino que Thumbprint es un relato que escribió mucho tiempo antes y que ahora fue publicado, eso imagino.

Thumbprint puede ser disfrutado en una sentada, por lo que no perderían mucho tiempo… Además, dense el chance, a lo mejor les guste más que a mí. Más si disfrutaron películas como Zero Dark Thirty y si gustan de protagonistas repulsivos y que quisieran golpear si vieran en la calle.

…yo, por mi parte, seguiré esperando su próxima novela: NOS4A2. Por cierto, el relato añade un extracto de esta novela, yo decidí no leerlo y esperar lo poco que falta. ( )
  JorgeLC | Apr 28, 2018 |
Here we are again Mr. Hill, with a book that starts good but with an ending that makes me just as frustrated as the last short story I read written by you. This is so tormenting that I don't know if I should continue with your short stories but I probably will... ( )
  | Feb 9, 2016 |
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Fiction. Horror. Short Stories. Thriller. HTML:

A New York Times Bestseller

Thirteen relentless tales of supernatural suspense, including "In the Tall Grass," one of two stories cowritten with Stephen King and the basis for the terrifying feature film from Netflix.

A little door that opens to a world of fairy-tale wonders becomes the blood-drenched stomping ground for a gang of hunters in "Faun." A grief-stricken librarian climbs behind the wheel of an antique Bookmobile to deliver fresh reads to the dead in "Late Returns."

In "By the Silver Water of Lake Champlain"â??now an episode on Shudder TV's Creepshowâ??two young friends stumble on the corpse of a plesiosaur at the water's edge, a discovery that forces them to confront the inescapable truth of their own mortality. And tension shimmers in the sweltering heat of the Nevada desert as a faceless trucker finds himself caught in a sinister dance with a tribe of motorcycle outlaws in "Throttle," cowritten with Stephen King.

Replete with shocking chillers, including two previously unpublished stories written expressly for this volume ("Mums" and "Late Returns") and another appearing in print for the first time ("Dark Carousel"), Full Throttle is a darkly imagined odyssey through the complexities of the human psyche. Hypnotic and disquieting, it mines our tormented secrets, hidden vulnerabilities, and basest fears, and demonstrates this exceptional talent at his very best

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