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Kjell-Vidar Åhman Teig's 3 Stones for the Nixie is a book of Stories of Life and Death in Øyerstad. This is an anthology of seven tales about Robert Bastaad and his friends and family. Øyerstad is a tiny village, an ordinary place where people live ordinary lives. Or do they? Robert and his friends play at being superheroes and celebrities, racing around the village on their bikes. They have no idea what’s hiding in the forest, what’s waiting beneath the pond, or what’s lurking in every house. Why are people dying? Why are they disappearing? What is waiting for them?
This is Kjell-Vidar Åhman Teig’s debut work, and it’s stunning. Set in the 1980s/90s, each story draws on some of the author’s personal experiences with loss and grief and is part coming-of-age, part horror, and part supernatural, with no small amount of humor scattered throughout. You can’t help but be drawn in by the writing style and the setting as you enter a world where the supernatural seems ordinary. Yes, these stories are quite scary, dealing with life and death and everything that goes with it, but each tale has its own message that will mean something different to each reader. I loved every one of the seven stories, but the final one seems to draw everything together in the perfect ending. You’ll experience just about every emotion possible as you read, and when you’ve finished, you’ll want to go back and read 3 Stones for the Nixie again. It's a wonderful collection, with so much emotion and so many different meanings to each story. If you've ever found yourself pondering the meaning of life and death, this is the book for you.
