Katerina, by Erik Hofstatter
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"...an engrossing and intriguing novelette that haunts the mind as you're reading, and for long afterwards." -Starburst Magazine- A weapons trader in Prague. A strange call girl. The most unusual love story is about to unfold. Kamil, a thirty-something medieval weapons trader resides in the notorious Red Light District in Prague. Despite his hatred for prostitutes, he accepts an offer from Ginny - a local sex worker. As their unusual friendship unfolds and Kamil witnesses several bizarre scenarios, he begins to suspect that Ginny might not be an ordinary prostitute. "Bawdy, salacious and endlessly sweet, this is pure smut with a heart of gold." - Karen Runge, author of Pseudopod and Shock Totem “Erik Hofstatter certainly shows talent.” - Scream Horror Magazine “Hofstatter’s brutally honest depiction of not only a prostitute’s life on the streets but also the borderline sociopathic world view of the narrator make for compelling but very uneasy reading.” - Horror News Network “Hofstatter is that rare type of genre writer who’s willing to take a risk, a trait that works in his and his readers favor.” - Shotgun Logic “Hofstatter continues to impress with stories that pull no punches, and travel to some genuinely dark places.” - The Eloquent Page
Katerina, by Erik Hofstatter- Published on: 2015-10-11
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.50" h x .11" w x 5.50" l, .15 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 46 pages
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. It's really a 3.5! By Confessions of a Reviewer A copy of Katerina was sent to Confessions of a Reviewer by the author Erik Hofstatter in exchange for an honest review. This is said review. This book is published by Creativia.Erik Hofstatter. Probably one of my all-time favourite author names. No idea why. It just makes me smile every time I hear it. I have only read one other thing from Mr Hofstatter in the past and that was another short story called The Pariahs. You can read my review of it here. I loved it so grabbed the chance at reviewing this one.Kamil is a medieval weapons trader living in the Red Light District in Prague. He hates prostitutes and all they stand for but is attached to his flat so won’t move. He doesn’t normally interact with the street girls. That is until he strikes up an unlikely friendship with Katerina.After a couple of very strange episodes, Kamil realises there is something very strange and mysterious about Katerina. He decides to put aside his hatred of her profession and try and find out exactly what it is about Katerina that won’t let him say no.Now regular readers of the blog will know I hate sex in a horror story so will be saying why the hell am I reading a story about a man and a prostitute? Well, Mr Hofstatter was aware of this hatred of mine but agreed I should try it anyway and see what I thought. Reading this has also made me want to clarify something. I hate sex in a horror story if there is absolutely no point in it and it is totally irrelevant to the story. This story is about a prostitute so of course there is going to be sex in it right? Well to be honest there was less in this than some of the stuff I have read recently. Anyway. The review.There are really only the two characters in this. Kamil seems ok. He’s a thirty something man with his own business and seems comfortable and stable enough apart from his hatred of prostitutes. Katerina seems, well, weird. She is obviously a lady of the night but she has some weird characteristics which I can’t tell you about here for fear of spoiling the story. Let’s just say if she did some of the things in my house that she does in this story, she wouldn’t get near my back gate never mind in the house.So the plot is not one you would see on a regular basis. Customer has sex with a prostitute who turns out to have some very strange traits and then customer decides to find out all they can about the prostitute to see what the hell is going on. Again, I won’t tell you what Katerina actually does but in the beginning there is a lot of blood then a lot of weirdness and a little bit of what the actual…..This is a short story. You will probably read it in an hour. I liked it. I think. I’m a bit undecided because I’m still trying to process what I actually just read. It’s a bit weird but it’s “I’m not putting this down until I find out what the hell is going on” weird. The only thing that sort of put me off this one was the fact it was so short. It had a bit of a bunny boiler Fatal Attraction feeling about it where there was huge potential for it to be expanded on and beefed up a bit more, with a lot more weirdness and a lot more horror.Erik Hofstatter can write. That is not in dispute here at all. I like his writing style because it is very to the point. No unnecessary use of fancy language to fill the gaps. No rambling about the history of Prague or prostitution or anything like that to make the story slow down. Straightforward and blunt. Just the way I like it to be. He writes really good characters. Again, to the point. You get what you need to know and nothing more. Characters that you can believe in, even if, in this case, some of the things they do are very weird indeed.I certainly didn’t get as much from this one as I did from The Pariahs but something kept me reading to the end. It is good writing and worth reading if you have an hour to kill. I just would have liked it longer and beefed up a bit more.To summarise: a weird tale of a normal everyday man trying to find out what the hell is wrong with his new prostitute friend after she behaves in a mysterious way. Short and blunt but to the point. Could have been longer and could have been scarier but still worth reading.General rating:★★★.5 see above.Horror rating:★★★ more creepy than scary but needed some more.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Vividly written, but flawed. By David Dubrow What would you call Erik Hofstatter’s Katerina: a novelette? A short novella? A long short story? However you label it, at 48 pages it’s a short read, with vivid, descriptive language that doesn’t shy away from the most explicit detail in a tale about a troubled man and an even more troubled streetwalker.The protagonist Kamil begins the story as a Travis Bickle-type right out of Taxi Driver, passing silent judgment on the neighborhood hookers through an internal dialogue that mingles loathing and lust in equal amounts. For reasons that seem at odds with his personal history and disgust for the profession, he picks up a streetwalker calling herself Ginny, and I can’t say any more without spoiling the story for you. If you’re looking for sex, blood, and frank discussion about seedy subjects, you won’t be disappointed.What is disappointing is the story’s lack of an antagonist, someone to frustrate Kamil’s aims. Its absence lent an inevitability to the narrative, a realization that Kamil would find out Katerina’s secret by the end. The reveal at the story’s climax (heh) also leaves one unsatisfied, having built up to…a sense of disappointment.Hofstatter is a skilled writer, and it shows in his ability to describe a scene with disturbing realism. The inconsistent characterization and misstep in structure shouldn’t turn you off from a story that holds your attention until the end.(Review originally published at The Slaughtered Bird: [...])
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. ... review Katerina mainly because of Erik Hofstatter being a wonderful name, a name that could be given to ... By Carrie - Horrorblog UK I was drawn to read and review Katerina mainly because of Erik Hofstatter being a wonderful name, a name that could be given to any number of fantasy characters, this made me smile.To be fair, Katerina is underselling itself as erotic horror, as it isn’t quite frankly. Yes, there are sex scenes, but none that are particularly erotic. I’m not convinced it is horror either, it is an interesting read and certainly a strange tale, told in the first person, which when done well can lead to an intense and fast paced read. Erik managed instead to tell the story of Kamil with plenty of visuals, which I rarely get from reading 1st person POV.As the story centers on prostitution, I had some concerns where this would lead, I find books involving prostitution, particularly ones that read from the males perspective, seemingly to have a low opinion of women. Something I’m not a fan of, but as this is a novella; Kamil, the lead character and definitely Ginny kept my interest peaked throughout.The characterisation and narrative are good, Erik has honed his craft well and took me on an odd journey that was over surprisingly quick! Something I suspect prostitutes are often thankful for. It’s a great short story that left me disappointed it wasn’t longer.I will be looking for more by this author. I am suitably impressed with this 20 minute read.
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