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product_id: 26332825
title: "Altar Paperback – April 8, 2016"
brand: "dynatox ministries"
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# Altar Paperback – April 8, 2016

**Brand:** dynatox ministries
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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    Who knew pools could be so scary?
  

*by G***D on Reviewed in the United States on March 7, 2017*

This was masterfully written–it involves something freaky happening at a public pool with a lot of middle and high school-age kids, and he painted very vivid portraits of all the young main characters as well as their parents, which is impressive in a relatively short story. He also does a good job of creating a mounting sense of dread via non-supernatural means. The end, though…your mileage may vary. I’ll try to avoid spoilers, but like with so many other horror stories, the sorts of which I’ve mentioned many times in my reviews, the real horror is not described in detail. Again, as I say equally often, that’s a mark of good horror, but some folks might find this one to be too abstract. Aside from the aforementioned sense of impending dread and doom, there’s no foreshadowing that the pool will…turn out in the particular way it does in any of the previous pages, except a kid noticing a strange crack in the bottom of the pool. So while some might savor the surprise, others might have no idea what’s going on at the end. Me, though? I liked it.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    Good, Scary Fun
  

*by S***W on Reviewed in the United States on June 3, 2016*

There are sharks in the ocean but something darker lurks beneath the local municipal pool in Philip Fracassi's new tale of terror, "Altar." A simple outing to the local pool quickly goes wrong and descends into a twisted nightmare. With the verbal dexterity of early King, Fracassi transforms the mundane into the monstrous. Really looking forward to seeing what comes next from this emerging master.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    An absolute sucker-punch of a novella
  

*by A***L on Reviewed in the United States on December 24, 2016*

What begins as a family trip to the local pool on a warm day quickly turns dark on levels both personal and cosmic, and it’s the juxtaposition of these two elements that Fracassi is so damn good at. The social ecosystem of the public pool and the mundane idiosyncrasies of each characters’ headspace make a fantastic set-piece for the action and horror that unfolds with Fracassi’s elegant rhythm. He manages to fit so much into the space of such a short work, but it never feels overfed. Every scene is precisely measured and delivers the right amount of impact-versus-anticipation before switching to a different character or scenario. The tension builds to breathless, almost painful heights as the story reaches its bleak and fragile peak. This is an absolute sucker-punch of a novella that easily ranks among this year’s best pieces of fiction.

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