Secret Stories: Tales from the Secret History / F. Paul Wilson

RATINGS

Overall: 4 / 5 stars

Text Level: Medium

Entertainment: High

Self-Help: Low

Genres: Fiction, Horror, Short Stories, Fantasy, Science Fiction

Page Count: 362

Is this book right for my inmate and me?

This book will appeal to F. Paul Wilson fans and those that follow his Adversary Cycle storyline / Repairman Jack storylines. It would also stand out to Sci-Fi fans.

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Review By: Road Runner

A fantastic anthology that adds to F. Paul Wilson’s “Secret History of the World” and to his over-achieving story of Good and Evil.

The Secret History of the World deals with a history that remains undiscovered, unexplored, and unknown to most of humanity. Some of this history has been revealed in the Adversary Cycle, some in the Repairman Jack novels, and his bits and pieces in other seemingly unconnected works. Taken together, even these millions of words barely scratch the surface of what has been going on behind the scenes, hidden from workaday world.
In Secret Stories, F. Paul Wilson has gathered source of the shorter pieces of the Secret History and placed them for convenience between a single set of covers. He’s left off the pieces available as stand-alones or collected in Quick Fixes, and concentrated on those published in scattered collections and anthologies over the years. To each he’s added commentary as to how a story earned its place in The Secret History. Terrifically written and very engrossing, worth a read regardless of whether or not you are a F. Paul Wilson fan.

Quote:

“The minutes flew, gathering into one hour, then two. At first, Karl had managed to remain aloof, picking apart Hitler’s words, separating the carefully selected truths from the half-truths and the outright fictions. Then, in spite of himself, the began to fall under the man’s spell. This Adolf Hitler was such a passionate speaker, so caught up in his own words that one had to go along with him; whatever the untruths and specious logic in his oratory, no one could doubt that this man believed unequivocally every word that he spoke, and somehow they too became unalterably convinced of the truth of what he was saying.” - Excerpt from “Aryans and Absinthe”