Pluck Out The Heart- Review of a Scare-chest!
Finished reading the last remaining story of the book- ‘Pluck out the heart’ a while ago. It is an anthology of horror stories featuring five different authors, edited by Shail Raghuvanshi and published by Airavat Publishing House . A successful horror story is something that is able to give goosebumps and ripples even to the ones who do not believe in any paranormal activity. Going by the theme of the book, the title seems thrilling as well as attractive, where ‘Pluck out the heart’ seems to symbolize that once you read the stories, you will feel as if your heart has been plucked out of your body. Similarly, the cover page also, I feel, goes with the theme. While the front cover shows dark buildings, silhouettes of trees and a dead man in a full-moon night- the time when the supernatural energies are said to be in its extreme, the back cover shows an open door with huge stains of blood and some human-like face bearing red eyes with a face as if it is going to attack someon...