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Michael Sorbello
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September 15, 1995
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September 2010
Ambient Music for Reading and Writing!
For anyone who didn't know, I have a YouTube channel called Nightmarish Compositions where I make ambient music to listen to while reading fiction books. I cover a wide range of themes from lovecraftian seas, dark fantasy worlds, haunted forests, decrepit castles, gothic nightmare realms, dystopian wastelands, snowy cemeteries and much more. It's perfect for horror, fantasy and sci-fi books, or ev
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Fragments of Fear
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Three awesome and emotional horror novels with a mixed bag of weird short stories to go with it. Quite the treat. *** The Shining ack Torrance has been given the chance to turn his life around after being hired to work as a winter caretaker at the Overl ...more |
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A fun pulpy Dark Tower story that takes place before the first novel in the main series. Before Roland’s quest to chase down the wicked Man in Black, he was a wandering vagabond searching for a trail to follow. He stumbles upon a haunted village fill ...more |
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A little bit of Kafka and a little bit of Orwell. A journalist named Fletcher gets kidnapped and tortured by The Ministry of Truth, a South American Dictatorship that accuses him of being aware of a potential coup against their tyrannical rule. He’s l ...more |
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Depression era gangsters struggle to keep their friend Jack Hamilton alive after a bank robbery getaway goes horribly wrong. The first half of the story captures the gritty gangster movie tone and plot formula from the noir era of crime films, but the ...more |
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The ending of this tragic horror rollercoaster of a story inspired feelings of... dare I say it, Happiness? Makoto and Sakurane reach the pinnacle moment of their dark and blood-soaked lives. One ascends beyond their monstrous nature while the other i ...more |
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| Funny, sad, and more relatable now than the time it was written. It’s about a depressed and lonely traveling salesman named Alfie Zimmer who has become so absorbed in his suicidal ideation that he feels completely disconnected from humanity and the w ...more | |
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| Sakurane enacts his twisted plan to cannibalize a vampire so that he and his cult of loyal followers can ascend to supernatural godhood. Gosho reunites with her two beloved friends turned vampires only for all hell to break loose. The final confronta ...more | |
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Very underrated short story from Stephen King about a little boy that encounters Satan in the woods in the form a normal man in a black suit. The whole story is written like a classic eerie folktale, mimicking the vintage style of classic gothic ghost ...more |
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| Big fan of the original Death Note, but this was really disappointing honestly. There's essentially four things in here. A collection of slapstick satire stories, a prototype showing the original concept of what Death Note was meant to be before the ...more | |
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“The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
“It’s only when you’ve lost someone that you realize the nonsense of that
phrase “It’s a small world”. It isn’t. It’s a vast, devouring world, especially if you’re alone.”
― Books of Blood, Volume Two
phrase “It’s a small world”. It isn’t. It’s a vast, devouring world, especially if you’re alone.”
― Books of Blood, Volume Two
“Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.”
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“There is no exquisite beauty… without some strangeness in the proportion.”
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Witches, Weres, and Vamps, Oh MY!
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Apr 08, 2021 03:58AM
thanks for the attention to my book reviews MS... hope you are well!
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Jon wrote: "All my best Michael."Same to you, Jon!
thanks for accepting my add, Michael! did you know, I'm from Cherry Hill... small world
