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"Crisp and vivid – like old black-and-white photographs you find in a drawer you were never meant to look into – each story sets up an interesting scenario, often leaving you with more questions than answers ... and wanting more. Anything that has me thinking after I read it stays in my library." –Matt Adder, Bookgasm: Reading Material to Get Excited About.

"A slender but remarkably intriguing read, Portraits In The Dark comprises nine short stories balanced neatly on the line that separates hope from hopeless despair. The cast of characters and scenarios is fascinating." - Dave Thompson, TCM Reviews.

"Engaging tales probing the dark recesses of the human psyche - I don't try to conjure a single word to describe a given book, but in this case the word "lingering" comes to mind when I think about the stories in Nancy O. Greene's Portraits in the Dark. This is subtle writing that sort of wraps around you unawares. There's also a surprising degree of variety in play here, in both content and approach...Greene is at her best when she delves deeply into the human mind to stir the juices of mental illness, obsession, and insanity. I especially liked the way a disturbed character's dialogue would suddenly take on manic proportions, taking me right along with it as my own reading pace quickened along with the breathless pace of the character...it will certainly appeal to those with dark appetites, as Nancy O. Greene basically takes the reader on a fascinating tour of the realms of the human psyche normally closed to visitors." -Daniel Jolley, Amazon.com Top 50 Reviewer.

"Portraits is my first exposure to author Nancy O. Greene ... I hope to read more of Ms. Greene in the near future and in the meantime I’m going to keep this one close by, so as to re-read the bright character studies from time to time. In all, it’s a rather short book, only 78 pages, but there is a lot of rich, imaginative concentrated escapism – a lot inside a little space. Greene makes conservative use of words, making as few as possible go as far as they can be stretched, not unlike, say, Kafka, who also was a master of minimalistic writing with a maximum imagery effect." -KM, Reviewer Magazine.

"Portraits in the Dark is well-crafted and engrossing; each story has just the right voice, just the right rhythm, with characters and situations that are intriguing and at times frightening. It's well worth the read." -Eric D. Goodman, freelance writer; author; and editor of the popular literary weblog, writeful.blogspot.com.

"The varying and conversational stories draw the reader in with a sense of empathy and dread. An extraordinarily well-written, intense collection." -Paul Lagasse, author of Seeing Through Clouds: The Story of an Airship Apprentice.

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