The Sea Was a Fair Master by Calvin Demmer

I would love to read more of this, to see where it started and how it develops. ‘Trashcan Sam’, now this is an interesting one. This is one that tugged on the heartstrings a little. This is a sad story of death and the struggle to move on. The penalty is death.Īnother I particularly liked was ‘Graves’. An unsettling tale of the ‘Extreme English’ class, one class you absolutely cannot fail. ‘Hangman’ is one of my favourites from the collection. Within the pages of ‘The Sea was a Fair Master’, are great stories I was genuinely unnerved by a few.

I would absolutely love to see a few of these, Hangman and Trashcan Sam in particular, expanded into novellas if not full novels. This collection of short stories from Calvin Demmer titled ‘The Sea was a Fair Master’ is quite frankly a masterpiece. There is a damsel in distress within me who loves the feeling of being protected by my man during scary scenes. I’m one who loves to be scared, I want to be clinging onto my fiancé Andy, the child in me scared of what might be lurking behind the sofa or under the bed. It’s surprising what can be packed into a 5 minute video or a few pages in a book. Some are downright terrible, while others are terrifyingly great. I love horror shorts, short films and short stories. There are also tales of hope, survival, and love.” There are tales of murder, death, loss, revenge, greed, and hate. The Sea Was a Fair Master is a collection of 23 stories, riding the currents of fantasy, science fiction, crime, and horror.

Synopsis courtesy of Goodreads: “The world’s fate lies with a comatose young girl an android wants to remember a human she once knew under Martian skies men at sea learn that the ocean is a realm far different from land, where an unforgiving god rules a school security guard discovers extreme English class and a man understands what the behemoth beneath the sea commands of him.

The Sea Was a Fair Master by Calvin Demmer