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The Thing, the Vampire, and the Werewolf

Baseball

Twittering From The Circus of the Dead - 4.5 stars - clever and entertaining! Silly but scary! Glad I went and got a physical copy from the library so I could read this one.

Maid service

Pimples

Joe Hill is making this difficult - just found out one story is not included in the audio version - to the library I go! (and, I am going to have to get the large print edition since the regular one is out!)

You Are Released - 4 stars - straight forward, not tongue-in-cheek, commentary. If you are easily terrified by flying and the current political climate of our world, this one will definitely scare the crap out of you!

Bermuda

In The Tall Grass - 5 stars - creepy and disturbing excellence. Not for the easily queasy. This one is about as shocking as they come!

Mums - 4.5 stars - Very well done story of madness, horror, paranoia, and revenge. Sowing the seeds of family dysfunction.

Sputnik

The Colonel

Tilting

The Devil on the Staircase - 3.5 stars - the shortest story in the book so far. Interesting and chilling. A take on the "selling your soul" story.

Thumbprint - 2.5 stars - a story of PTSD. This one didn't really do much for me. It was okay, but I couldn't get into and then it was suddenly over.

All I Care About Is You - 4.5 stars - I am not quite sure why I liked this one so much. In fact, halfway through I didn't think I liked it at all. But, the ending really brought it home for me. Very clever storyline and twists.

Toxins

Late Returns - 5 stars - The best so far! I loved every part of this story. Well crafted, mysterious, and tugs at the heart-strings. This is a short story worth visiting even if you don't try any of the others.

False truce

Faun - 3.5 stars - I liked the way this one started. It fell off for me towards the end. Not your C. S. Lewis Narnia

By the Silver Water Of Lake Champlain - 3 stars - A decent little creepy story for fans of Cryptozoology. Took me a while to get into and kind of left me feeling like there should be something more.

I have seen some comments lately equating a review that differs from the general opinion of a book as an "honest" review. Usually this is used when someone does not like a book that everyone else loves.

Does this mean that all of the other reviews are not honest?

(Kind of joking around here, but it did get me thinking about this way of describing reviews.)

Wolverton Station - 4 stars - A commentary on American capitalism taking over the world. Anthropomorphic mayhem! Warren Zevon would be a fan of this one!

Graveyard shift

Unwinnable war

Dark Carousel - 4 stars - Hill's take on the evil carnival. Basically, don't mess with or disrespect creepy people at a travelling carnival. If there are consequences, don't say that Hill didn't warn you!

King of the Moat

Introduction - 5 stars - King family intros are always a pleasure!

Throttle - 4 stars - I listened to this previously when it was combined with Matheson's Duel. A dark and gritty story of revenge - very much in the same spirit as Matheson's story. Written with Stephen King.

Electronic Medical Records

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