Review: Straitjacket: Variations on a Theme of Horror by Charles P. Stites

by Michael Meigs
Published on September 21, 2021

Charles Stites has the boundless ambitions of a sensitive, spiritual man and the grit of one with no expectation of redemption, contradictory attitudes that collide over the meaning of existence.

    Okay, Charlie Stites, let’s get real.   I’ve been avoiding you the way your principal character Dr. Daryl Standing tried to avoid Chin Lo, the murderous leader of the San Francisco tong wars.   Not because I wanted to. No. Like Daryl Standing, I was intimidated, seeing failure and pain looming before me. Chin Lo took a month to execute an earlier offender, chopping pieces off him bit by bit, until the victim …

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