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The Coffin Stays Closed...Charlatan! ...& other minor crimes!
Paperback
Series: Short Stories
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Apr 18 2025
Pages: 144
Weight: 0.44
Height: 0.31 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The Coffin Stays Closed... (Charlatan!)
...& Other Minor Crimes
By Tomazo (Thomas) Pagonis
A literary crime doesn't have to be solved. It just has to be exquisitely committed.
Enter the mind of Pentheus H.-a man of refinement, philosophical appetite, and one peculiar hobby: creative ruinings. In a voice both chilling and charming, his self-appointed psychiatrist narrates a descent into madness-or is it genius?-where death becomes a work of art, and dismemberment a metaphysical inquiry. The central novella is an audacious blend of satire, psychological horror, and philosophical fiction.
But the crimes do not end there.
In the second part-Other Minor Crimes-the reader is served a sharp cocktail of short stories, monologues, and allegories. Bureaucrats haunt their own offices, small-town murders grow mythic, and a woman's back becomes the canvas for the history of modern art. Somewhere between black comedy and philosophical theatre, these tales whisper a shared truth: everyone is guilty, and no one is quite innocent.
So then... who is to be blamed?(Aside, of course, from the author-who so recklessly unleashed his characters
to commit such monumental minor crimes.)
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