Book Review: Thirty Twice Tiny Tales of Terror

Out of nowhere comes tiny tales so twisted that only a pharmacist can fill this script for a scary, but quick read.

Written by former Pottsville, Pa.- resident Sam Chiodo, Thirty Twice Tiny Tales of Terror is a unique collection of short stories. These brief observations of life and its grotesque, greedy, and sometimes grandiose behaviors, open the door to other realms of possibility. A quick yet comprehensive peek at the human heart, TTTTOT creates nods and smiles among its readers.

Author/pharmacist Chiodo and his quirky flair for expressing his views on humankind has been compared to Rod Serling. The tales reflect man's obsession with money, power, freedom. Don´t miss this exciting collection that uses innovative pharmaceutical twists and psychological turns to relate to the world.

But those knowing Chiodo, who sometimes goes by the pseudonym of Sam Nail since his surname in Italian means carpenter or nail, wonder where he gets his twisted story ideas. Did he get them from the streets of Pottsville after drinking too much Yuengling and eating too many peanut-laced burgers? Possibly, while growing up in the coal region, he breathed in too much coal-burning fumes that filled the Schuylkill County skies of the late 1950s. Or maybe he spent too much time in his pharmacy school's frat houses during the late 1960s? Did the disco era of the 1970s confuse him like it did for many others? Of course, with a name like Chiodo maybe he's stuck in the middle of some bizarre Italian afiaa plot and this is more of a diary than fiction?

Never-the-less, no matter where he gets his ideas, Chiodo's Thirty Twice Tiny Tales of Terror is a must read for those who enjoy a scary evening bundled up in bed with a baseball bat and all the doors double bolted. These aren't your typical bedtime stories, but rather a Friday-the-13th-like fright.

For a sample chapter of his 143-page, affordable book, visit Chiodo's publisher's Website at Xlibris.