{"id":4790,"date":"2017-12-28T13:37:25","date_gmt":"2017-12-28T18:37:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sfreader.com\/r\/?p=4790"},"modified":"2017-12-28T13:37:25","modified_gmt":"2017-12-28T18:37:25","slug":"tarot-of-hate-by-antonio-simon-jr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sfreader.com\/r\/book-review\/horror\/anthology-horror\/tarot-of-hate-by-antonio-simon-jr\/","title":{"rendered":"Tarot of Hate, by Antonio Simon, Jr."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/sfreader.com\/r\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Tarot-of-Hate-by-Antonio-Simon-Jr.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-4791\" src=\"http:\/\/sfreader.com\/r\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Tarot-of-Hate-by-Antonio-Simon-Jr-157x250.jpg\" alt=\"Tarot of Hate, by Antonio Simon, Jr book cover\" width=\"157\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sfreader.com\/r\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Tarot-of-Hate-by-Antonio-Simon-Jr-157x250.jpg 157w, https:\/\/sfreader.com\/r\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Tarot-of-Hate-by-Antonio-Simon-Jr.jpg 313w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 157px) 100vw, 157px\" \/><\/a>Genre:\u00a0 Horror<br \/>\n<\/strong><strong>Publisher:\u00a0\u00a0Darkwater Syndicate<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Published: 2017<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Reviewer Rating:\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-274\" src=\"http:\/\/sfreader.com\/r\/wp-content\/uploads\/2001\/12\/fourstars.gif\" alt=\"four stars\" width=\"45\" height=\"13\" \/><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Reviewer:\u00a0 David L. Felts<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Have you read this book?<br \/>\n<span id=\"post-ratings-4790\" class=\"post-ratings\" data-nonce=\"316ed4f765\">Why not rate it! <img id=\"rating_4790_1\" src=\"https:\/\/sfreader.com\/r\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-postratings\/images\/stars\/rating_off.gif\" alt=\"1 Star\" title=\"1 Star\" onmouseover=\"current_rating(4790, 1, '1 Star');\" onmouseout=\"ratings_off(0, 0, 0);\" onclick=\"rate_post();\" onkeypress=\"rate_post();\" style=\"cursor: pointer; border: 0px;\" \/><img id=\"rating_4790_2\" src=\"https:\/\/sfreader.com\/r\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-postratings\/images\/stars\/rating_off.gif\" alt=\"2 Stars\" title=\"2 Stars\" onmouseover=\"current_rating(4790, 2, '2 Stars');\" onmouseout=\"ratings_off(0, 0, 0);\" onclick=\"rate_post();\" onkeypress=\"rate_post();\" style=\"cursor: pointer; border: 0px;\" \/><img id=\"rating_4790_3\" src=\"https:\/\/sfreader.com\/r\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-postratings\/images\/stars\/rating_off.gif\" alt=\"3 Stars\" title=\"3 Stars\" onmouseover=\"current_rating(4790, 3, '3 Stars');\" onmouseout=\"ratings_off(0, 0, 0);\" onclick=\"rate_post();\" onkeypress=\"rate_post();\" style=\"cursor: pointer; border: 0px;\" \/><img id=\"rating_4790_4\" src=\"https:\/\/sfreader.com\/r\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-postratings\/images\/stars\/rating_off.gif\" alt=\"4 Stars\" title=\"4 Stars\" onmouseover=\"current_rating(4790, 4, '4 Stars');\" onmouseout=\"ratings_off(0, 0, 0);\" onclick=\"rate_post();\" onkeypress=\"rate_post();\" style=\"cursor: pointer; border: 0px;\" \/><img id=\"rating_4790_5\" src=\"https:\/\/sfreader.com\/r\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-postratings\/images\/stars\/rating_off.gif\" alt=\"5 Stars\" title=\"5 Stars\" onmouseover=\"current_rating(4790, 5, '5 Stars');\" onmouseout=\"ratings_off(0, 0, 0);\" onclick=\"rate_post();\" onkeypress=\"rate_post();\" style=\"cursor: pointer; border: 0px;\" \/> <br \/><span class=\"post-ratings-text\" id=\"ratings_4790_text\"><\/span><\/span><span id=\"post-ratings-4790-loading\" class=\"post-ratings-loading\"><img src=\"https:\/\/sfreader.com\/r\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-postratings\/images\/loading.gif\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" class=\"post-ratings-image\" \/>Loading...<\/span><\/p>\n<p>In Tarot of Hate, Antonio Simon, Jr., serves up a tasty sm\u00f6rg\u00e5sbord of eight horror tales, spanning sub-genres from the surreal to the too-real.<\/p>\n<p>Table of Contents<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Dogfaced Eve &#8211; a man trapped on an island battles an half-human, half-animal female with an insatiable appetite.<\/li>\n<li>Toll Road &#8211; a professional kidnapper gets more than he bargained for when his latest abduction leads to supernatural encounters on the Florida Turnpike.<\/li>\n<li>Fifteen Dollars&#8217; Guilt &#8211; after a brush with death in a steamship disaster, two strangers inadvertently set in motion the assassination of President Garfield.<\/li>\n<li>No Thanks &#8211; a meek employee takes his revenge in the workplace, operating under the assumption that he can dispel consequences with his newly discovered&#8221;superpower&#8221;.<\/li>\n<li>Red Airwaves &#8211; during the cold war, a man decodes signals broadcast over a shortwave radio station that expose the potential disaster of a global nuclear war.<\/li>\n<li>Hunter, Hunted &#8211; the production crew of a reality TV production a la To catch a Predator ends up with a vengeful visitor who brings more than they can handle.<\/li>\n<li>Lilith &#8211; a hermit\u2019s life is disrupted by a mysterious woman in his camp.<\/li>\n<li>Water, Ice, And Vice &#8211; a wish-granting fridge offers Jeremy whatever he wants , which he uses to exact bloody vengeance on his obnoxious roommate.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>All of the stories were entertaining, some more than others.\u00a0My favorites where Fifteen Dollars&#8217; Guilt (although the &#8220;reveal&#8221; at the end was a disappointment), No Thanks, and Hunter, Hunted.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re looking for some horror that occasionally pushes the boundaries of gore and good taste, you&#8217;ll probably find something to like in Tarot of hate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Genre:\u00a0 Horror Publisher:\u00a0\u00a0Darkwater Syndicate Published: 2017 Reviewer Rating:\u00a0 Reviewer:\u00a0 David L. Felts Have you read this book? In Tarot of Hate, Antonio Simon, Jr., serves up a tasty sm\u00f6rg\u00e5sbord of eight horror tales, spanning sub-genres from the surreal to the too-real. Table of Contents Dogfaced Eve &#8211; a man trapped &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4791,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[284],"tags":[71,1239,997,9,912],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sfreader.com\/r\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4790"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sfreader.com\/r\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sfreader.com\/r\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sfreader.com\/r\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sfreader.com\/r\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4790"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sfreader.com\/r\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4790\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4793,"href":"https:\/\/sfreader.com\/r\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4790\/revisions\/4793"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sfreader.com\/r\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sfreader.com\/r\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sfreader.com\/r\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sfreader.com\/r\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}