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Things Withered
A middle-aged realtor trying to get ahead any way she can. A bad girl pays for cheating with a married man. A wife with a dark past lives in fear of being exposed. The bad acts of a little old lady come home to roost. A young man with no direction finds power behind the wheel of a haunted truck. From behind the pretty drapes of the average suburban home, madness peers out. Stories of suburban darkness from the award-winning author of A Dry Spell, The Thirteen, and The Dwelling prove that life can turn on you, or you can turn on it.
280 pages, Paperback
First published October 15, 2013
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March 1, 2014
I find it quite difficult to rate a book that's an anthology. Some stories I may absolutely adore, some may be mediocre, others I may not enjoy at all. Such is the case of Things Withered.
All the stories are well written. There is a truck that has a certain pull on a young man which reminded me a lot of Stephen King's Christine. A woman who has an affair with a married man and suffers a cruel fate. A real estate broker who is getting on in years and needs a leg above the competition. And perhaps my favorite that involves a Disney store. I will never look at a stuffed Tigger the same way again.
Things Withered is a decent creepy book. It has the story style of The Twilight Zone. However, being a horror fan for oodles of years, I expect a bit more from my horror books. There was just something missing for me. I want to be clinging to my blankets, afraid to get out of bed because something might grab my foot from underneath. I want to be terrified to turn out the lights.
I want to be as freaked out as this cat.
3 Ninja-Bunnehs-Driving-Trucks
All the stories are well written. There is a truck that has a certain pull on a young man which reminded me a lot of Stephen King's Christine. A woman who has an affair with a married man and suffers a cruel fate. A real estate broker who is getting on in years and needs a leg above the competition. And perhaps my favorite that involves a Disney store. I will never look at a stuffed Tigger the same way again.
Things Withered is a decent creepy book. It has the story style of The Twilight Zone. However, being a horror fan for oodles of years, I expect a bit more from my horror books. There was just something missing for me. I want to be clinging to my blankets, afraid to get out of bed because something might grab my foot from underneath. I want to be terrified to turn out the lights.
I want to be as freaked out as this cat.
3 Ninja-Bunnehs-Driving-Trucks
February 5, 2016
Having read Moloney's The Thirteen, it probably shouldn't have come as a surprise that her collection is fairly suburban focused. These tales make you wonder how well you know your neighbors, your friends, and even your family. Even knowing that, you'll find Moloney is particularly adept at surprising you - just when you think you know what to expect, she's guaranteed to turn the story on its head.
In "The Windemere" a realtor makes a startling discovery about her new neighbors. In "Wife" a woman tries desperately to hide her true nature from her husband. For a mother and her son, a weekend outing becomes deadly in "Petty Zoo." One man drives himself mad with fear of death in "Poor David, or, The Possibility of Coincidence in Situations of Multiple Occurrences." And anyone whose experienced it will sympathize with the poor girl in "The Audit."
With these tales and more, Moloney explores the ultimate fears and potential darkness that live behind closed doors - or even within us all!
A few of my personal favorites include:
"The Windemere," is the perfect start to the collection, setting an overall excellent tone. But it's the end of this story that really proved to be the so called cherry on top.
"The Last Living Summer," a little glimpse of the end of the world maybe?
"Reclamation on the Forest Floor," a dark gem of a tale that takes friendly rivalry to the next level.
"The Neighborhood, or, To the Devil With You," because evil isn't always what you expect it to be.
In "The Windemere" a realtor makes a startling discovery about her new neighbors. In "Wife" a woman tries desperately to hide her true nature from her husband. For a mother and her son, a weekend outing becomes deadly in "Petty Zoo." One man drives himself mad with fear of death in "Poor David, or, The Possibility of Coincidence in Situations of Multiple Occurrences." And anyone whose experienced it will sympathize with the poor girl in "The Audit."
With these tales and more, Moloney explores the ultimate fears and potential darkness that live behind closed doors - or even within us all!
A few of my personal favorites include:
"The Windemere," is the perfect start to the collection, setting an overall excellent tone. But it's the end of this story that really proved to be the so called cherry on top.
"The Last Living Summer," a little glimpse of the end of the world maybe?
"Reclamation on the Forest Floor," a dark gem of a tale that takes friendly rivalry to the next level.
"The Neighborhood, or, To the Devil With You," because evil isn't always what you expect it to be.
September 15, 2015
The blurbs on the back of this book say things like "Each one of these stories has fangs" and "This chick is scary!" I suppose that might be true if the fangs are made of sugar, and scary is a slow but rather obvious reveal that, this drab, dull, nasty person is *gasp* a murderer. Every descriptive word used in the blurbs reflect the opposite of my experience with this book: creepy, wicked, gonzo, refreshingly original, terrifying, grotesque. I found it none of those. I was never at any point creeped out, nor surprised by any kind of originality. Certainly not terrified, as I spent a lot of time forcing myself to finish a story, as my mind drifted away from the mundane tediousness of it all. And the one story that had a chance at being terrifying, "Reclamation on the Forest Floor", featuring a flesh-rotting mold, managed to focus so much on the petty bickering in the mind of one character that it made any brush with fear little more than a vague after-thought. The final story, a short screen play was a kind of cute take on vampires living in suburbia. I understand that some people love these kinds of slice-of-life stories that look at the unpleasant underbelly of regular suburban and trailer-park life, especially when injected with a bit of the old supernatural, or desperation induced outbursts of quiet violence, but I just found this book boring.
March 1, 2019
Things Withered is a brilliant collection of short horror stories, in which Susie Maloney plays on the anxieties of everyday life to deliver horrifying chills. Whether it’s the need to hold onto a job, unfortunate deaths in the neighborhood, or competition between friends, the drive of each story is grounded in human beings with their own frustrations so that by the time things get really weird, the reader is already on edge.
Take, for example, “The Audit,” in which a young woman faces a growing mountain of paperwork as she attempts to prepare for being audited by the IRS. Taxes are an ordinary kind of fear, but the story manages to build an increasing tension through the escalating mountain of papers that need to be addressed combined with the indifference of the people around her.
The rest of my review can be read on >my blog.
Take, for example, “The Audit,” in which a young woman faces a growing mountain of paperwork as she attempts to prepare for being audited by the IRS. Taxes are an ordinary kind of fear, but the story manages to build an increasing tension through the escalating mountain of papers that need to be addressed combined with the indifference of the people around her.
The rest of my review can be read on >my blog.
May 5, 2019
A wonderful collection of stories to entice, intrigue and fascinate. I loved the twists in the tales. A great book for cozy evenings by the fireside or on the beach.
February 14, 2024
A collection of short stories. There were a couple I really enjoyed but most of them were meandering and predictable.
September 18, 2015
This was the September selection for The Nightmare Factory Book Club, my second month! ...I hated it. (But I still love the book club, despite that the fact that the books are technically 0/4 for me so far.)
In this collection, Susie Moloney has one trick. We spend time, sometimes quite a lot of time, with some tedious, unpleasant human, beaten down by the tyranny of their petty, wholly uninteresting, and at times simply illogical internal monologue. Suddenly, a moment of great violence or some equally abrupt revelation of a supernatural cause for the mildly horrific things these awful characters have thus far been blandly dealing with occurs. Without fail, at this point of climax, the stories simply stop. In another writer's hands I know this technique can prove chilling, allowing the horror to grow ever larger in the reader's head as they reflect on what just happened. Here, I was mostly just relieved, as reaching the end of one yarn indicated that I was that much closer to reaching the end of this book.
The way these stories are presented utterly robs them of any ability to be frightening or even to develop an atmosphere of mystery or suspense. If this book is tackling the horrors of suburbia, and its inhabitants are truly underrepresented in literature, as the blurbs would have me believe, then I now understand why that is the case - it is excruciatingly boring to spend large amounts of time listening to totally insipid characters argue with their husbands or complain about doing their taxes.
Furthermore, reading them one after another in an anthology like this weakens them further still. When you only have one trick it loses yet more effectiveness with every subsequent performance in a short span of time. This is why the most effective story is the first one. We don't yet know what Moloney is about, so even though the build-up is just as interminable as it is in every other story, the actual climax surprised and pleased me, as I had not been expecting things to go that way. While the climax of the final story barely registers as a blip on the mental landscape, because it is basically the exact same twist. Of course, some of the worst stories in the bunch stand out not because they have been done before but because they have no point at all, not even the smug grin of a twist ending. They simply gnaw away at the reader's time, small moments you will never get back. With a world of books out there to read, I have no plans to sacrifice any more of my life to this collection or even this author.
In this collection, Susie Moloney has one trick. We spend time, sometimes quite a lot of time, with some tedious, unpleasant human, beaten down by the tyranny of their petty, wholly uninteresting, and at times simply illogical internal monologue. Suddenly, a moment of great violence or some equally abrupt revelation of a supernatural cause for the mildly horrific things these awful characters have thus far been blandly dealing with occurs. Without fail, at this point of climax, the stories simply stop. In another writer's hands I know this technique can prove chilling, allowing the horror to grow ever larger in the reader's head as they reflect on what just happened. Here, I was mostly just relieved, as reaching the end of one yarn indicated that I was that much closer to reaching the end of this book.
The way these stories are presented utterly robs them of any ability to be frightening or even to develop an atmosphere of mystery or suspense. If this book is tackling the horrors of suburbia, and its inhabitants are truly underrepresented in literature, as the blurbs would have me believe, then I now understand why that is the case - it is excruciatingly boring to spend large amounts of time listening to totally insipid characters argue with their husbands or complain about doing their taxes.
Furthermore, reading them one after another in an anthology like this weakens them further still. When you only have one trick it loses yet more effectiveness with every subsequent performance in a short span of time. This is why the most effective story is the first one. We don't yet know what Moloney is about, so even though the build-up is just as interminable as it is in every other story, the actual climax surprised and pleased me, as I had not been expecting things to go that way. While the climax of the final story barely registers as a blip on the mental landscape, because it is basically the exact same twist. Of course, some of the worst stories in the bunch stand out not because they have been done before but because they have no point at all, not even the smug grin of a twist ending. They simply gnaw away at the reader's time, small moments you will never get back. With a world of books out there to read, I have no plans to sacrifice any more of my life to this collection or even this author.
December 14, 2013
The book is brilliant. It was worth reading, I got spooked about the haunted truck it gave me shivers up and down my back. The little old lady OMG she was awesome I was trembling of what she did and gets a away with it. The bad girl oh well things happen at the end. The wife with a dark past being exposed, I really got spooked again, come on seeing things around you and not their, feeling some one watching you chasing seeing things withered in front of you or coming alive.
But at the end everything has a twist. The book follows something else, something that happens after
something else especially with all the characters. The little old lady I found her very interesting.
The bad girl I found her attractive to other men. The wife with the past I found her very scared and frightened all the time. The haunted truck frequented by ghosts supposed by supernatural beings, strangely terrified in appearance. I hope you like my review.
Jamie.I
But at the end everything has a twist. The book follows something else, something that happens after
something else especially with all the characters. The little old lady I found her very interesting.
The bad girl I found her attractive to other men. The wife with the past I found her very scared and frightened all the time. The haunted truck frequented by ghosts supposed by supernatural beings, strangely terrified in appearance. I hope you like my review.
Jamie.I
January 16, 2014
I found this book to be a highly entertaining read. If you are looking for loud in your face horror , with ghouls and spooks you won't find it in this book , what you will find is a subtle sense of horror, a slight feeling under your skin of a vague menace. I loved the fact that Susie Moloney managed to maintain a consistently creepy feeling through out the book.This book has been compared to the Twilight Zone , where things appear normal but there is surprises when you look into the normal happenings around you, the same can be said about the stories in this book . I loved this book .
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August 27, 2016
Very disappointing collection of short stories. Nothing creepy here. As soon as a story started to become vaguely interesting, it ended. However, the endings seemed pointless. They left me with nothing...mainly because I couldn't care about any of the characters.
January 26, 2014
One of the best short story collections I have read in a while
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August 31, 2021
After reading The Thirteen and loving it, I found out Moloney had a short story collection out; I like horror and am trying to get more into short stories so it seemed a good fit. But many of these stories weren't horror at all, most not even all that suspenseful. Many of them also felt like they ended suddenly, building up to something and then getting cut off before the ending occurred. Certainly many had 'fantastic' events occur, bizarre happenings that would be impossible in reality as we know it. But none of the stories really left an impact beyond just how mundane they all were, with splashes of the odd you wouldn't expect and which left me wondering what exactly the point/goal of the stories were. Probably a lot of them could be framed as 'What if X', some weird thing happening in an otherwise normal situation, but the lack of distinct ending on many of the stories just makes them confusing.
August 13, 2015
Susie Moloney is the female Stephen King. I've just finished the last story in "Things Withered", and I'm struck by how courageous a good writer has to be to tell an uncomfortable story.
The story was called "The Neighbourhood, or, To the Devil with You". It's about a suburban housewife who experiences some insane shit in the decades she's lived in a house across the street from a creepy old woman named Hazel. People die. Animals go missing. Things wither. Though it's a short story, the world feels real.
But one particular scene especially got to me. A neighbor across the street, a friend of the main character, loses her child in a horrific accident. I won't spoil the details, but it got me thinking about what we as writers must do when we create stories, especially horror stories. In order to truly scare people, we have to tell the truth. Readers aren't dumb. We have to dream up the most horrible situations imaginable. We have to stare right at the blood and gore of the horrible incidents in our mind, not looking away. We have to study the scene. We have to look at it from every possible angle, over and over, figuring out the best way to get the image across, and then we have describe it in gruesome detail.
And we have to do these things to characters we made real in our own minds. We have to feel the emotions.
We're a little less sane for doing it, as anybody would be who witness such horror in real life. Just because it's fiction, doesn't mean it wasn't an experience. And as I read Susie's story, I realized how courageous she is, wandering down into that world and bringing up handfuls of red foam to show us what happened.
A weaker writer might have glossed over such images, or not written the story at all. Some things are too uncomfortable, even if they're true. Susie makes the journey and brings back buckets of reality. The lesson is: courage is the difference between weakness and strength in a story. You have to be brave enough to be weird, or your stories will be forgotten.
The other thing that struck me is the scale of the story. Though it's short, the narrative spans decades. People grow old and die before your eyes. An entire lifetime passes. And Susie does it all with the fluidity and grace of a magician waving a wand. There are no clunky gimmicks, like posting the date at the top of each section, or resorting to "Forty years passed..." She just tells the story, and the change of setting itself works the magic. Though the entire thing takes place around a few houses on a single block in one neighborhood, the world changes around these people. You can really feel it, and when the beautiful young housewife is old and grey, you feel like you've lived a life along with her. This, too, is no small feat.
And Susie works all this magic within the framework of the book at large. The theme of things withering is present throughout this collection, and it's subtle and powerful here as well. Not only is the neighborhood aging, but it's fading as well, things are slowly rotting, going to hell as society crumbles from the idyllic 1950s up into modern times.
Non-writers will enjoy this story just as much as I did, possibly more so, but as a writer, it was inspiring to me. I understand the techniques and tricks of fiction, the method behind it. I know how to build a story and make characters come to life. But to see that magic done with such grace and subtlety here was a truly awe-inspiring experience. It made me love being a writer once more.
Thanks, Susie.
The story was called "The Neighbourhood, or, To the Devil with You". It's about a suburban housewife who experiences some insane shit in the decades she's lived in a house across the street from a creepy old woman named Hazel. People die. Animals go missing. Things wither. Though it's a short story, the world feels real.
But one particular scene especially got to me. A neighbor across the street, a friend of the main character, loses her child in a horrific accident. I won't spoil the details, but it got me thinking about what we as writers must do when we create stories, especially horror stories. In order to truly scare people, we have to tell the truth. Readers aren't dumb. We have to dream up the most horrible situations imaginable. We have to stare right at the blood and gore of the horrible incidents in our mind, not looking away. We have to study the scene. We have to look at it from every possible angle, over and over, figuring out the best way to get the image across, and then we have describe it in gruesome detail.
And we have to do these things to characters we made real in our own minds. We have to feel the emotions.
We're a little less sane for doing it, as anybody would be who witness such horror in real life. Just because it's fiction, doesn't mean it wasn't an experience. And as I read Susie's story, I realized how courageous she is, wandering down into that world and bringing up handfuls of red foam to show us what happened.
A weaker writer might have glossed over such images, or not written the story at all. Some things are too uncomfortable, even if they're true. Susie makes the journey and brings back buckets of reality. The lesson is: courage is the difference between weakness and strength in a story. You have to be brave enough to be weird, or your stories will be forgotten.
The other thing that struck me is the scale of the story. Though it's short, the narrative spans decades. People grow old and die before your eyes. An entire lifetime passes. And Susie does it all with the fluidity and grace of a magician waving a wand. There are no clunky gimmicks, like posting the date at the top of each section, or resorting to "Forty years passed..." She just tells the story, and the change of setting itself works the magic. Though the entire thing takes place around a few houses on a single block in one neighborhood, the world changes around these people. You can really feel it, and when the beautiful young housewife is old and grey, you feel like you've lived a life along with her. This, too, is no small feat.
And Susie works all this magic within the framework of the book at large. The theme of things withering is present throughout this collection, and it's subtle and powerful here as well. Not only is the neighborhood aging, but it's fading as well, things are slowly rotting, going to hell as society crumbles from the idyllic 1950s up into modern times.
Non-writers will enjoy this story just as much as I did, possibly more so, but as a writer, it was inspiring to me. I understand the techniques and tricks of fiction, the method behind it. I know how to build a story and make characters come to life. But to see that magic done with such grace and subtlety here was a truly awe-inspiring experience. It made me love being a writer once more.
Thanks, Susie.
January 25, 2014
Things Withered è la prima raccolta di racconti dell’autrice Susie Moloney.
Tutte e nove le storie dell’antologia hanno in comune una sensazione di pesantezza esistenziale, l’ambientazione in periferie desolate, cupe.
Vite dal passato difficile che ritorna, esistenze segnate, ormai finite, che si trascinano cercando un senso che forse non c’è.
Un agente immobiliare di mezza età cerca di andare avanti, una moglie con un passato oscuro vive nella paura di essere scoperta, cattive azioni di una vecchia signora che vengono al pettine... Dietro le belle tende della casa di periferia, del volto di una persona qualunque si può celare qualunque segreto o follia.
L’intento delle storie è interessante e sono scritte anche bene.
Tuttavia, non sono riuscita a sentirmi molto coinvolta o toccata.
Questo voler raccontare i “panni sporchi” che si celano dietro una facciata mediocre o normale mi è sembrato spesso troppo forzato, una ricerca del sensazionalismo mirata a colpire il lettore, non una vera indagine interiore.
Il senso di degrado, esteriore e morale, di noia o peso esistenziale di vite alla deriva, mi è sembrato troppo costruito e poco fatto vivere attraverso i personaggi.
Tutto questo toglie genuinità ai racconti, così come un vero coinvolgimento emotivo.
Tutte e nove le storie dell’antologia hanno in comune una sensazione di pesantezza esistenziale, l’ambientazione in periferie desolate, cupe.
Vite dal passato difficile che ritorna, esistenze segnate, ormai finite, che si trascinano cercando un senso che forse non c’è.
Un agente immobiliare di mezza età cerca di andare avanti, una moglie con un passato oscuro vive nella paura di essere scoperta, cattive azioni di una vecchia signora che vengono al pettine... Dietro le belle tende della casa di periferia, del volto di una persona qualunque si può celare qualunque segreto o follia.
L’intento delle storie è interessante e sono scritte anche bene.
Tuttavia, non sono riuscita a sentirmi molto coinvolta o toccata.
Questo voler raccontare i “panni sporchi” che si celano dietro una facciata mediocre o normale mi è sembrato spesso troppo forzato, una ricerca del sensazionalismo mirata a colpire il lettore, non una vera indagine interiore.
Il senso di degrado, esteriore e morale, di noia o peso esistenziale di vite alla deriva, mi è sembrato troppo costruito e poco fatto vivere attraverso i personaggi.
Tutto questo toglie genuinità ai racconti, così come un vero coinvolgimento emotivo.
February 12, 2014
Love! Susie Moloney is like subtle Stephen King at his best. Often times you aren't quite sure what you are reading, nor are you sure why the story is classified as horror, but by the end of the tale your body is suddenly overcome with shivers as you truly absorb what you have just read.
I didn't love every single story in this collection, but you can be certain that most of them have burrowed into my brain to sleep where the wild things are. Moloney has the ability to write in such varying styles, she matches each mood impeccably. Each story starts out cautiously with foundation. She is able to reel you in just enough that you want to keep reading; you know something is going to happen, but you aren't quite sure what it is yet. You may find yourself 3/4 of the way through the story, internally shouting for the climax, and when she finally brings it, it has been brought in such a manner that you may or may not still be feeling the mindgasm for days to come.
Just do it. Read the book, and your horror-loving brain will be satisfied for weeks.
I didn't love every single story in this collection, but you can be certain that most of them have burrowed into my brain to sleep where the wild things are. Moloney has the ability to write in such varying styles, she matches each mood impeccably. Each story starts out cautiously with foundation. She is able to reel you in just enough that you want to keep reading; you know something is going to happen, but you aren't quite sure what it is yet. You may find yourself 3/4 of the way through the story, internally shouting for the climax, and when she finally brings it, it has been brought in such a manner that you may or may not still be feeling the mindgasm for days to come.
Just do it. Read the book, and your horror-loving brain will be satisfied for weeks.
September 5, 2015
Susie Moloney has one move, and she uses it quite expertly throughout each of these stories—slow build-up, moments of everyday minutiae peppered with disquieting details, and a jarring moment of violence at the very end. It's used to tremendous effect in some of the stronger stories (the terrifying "Truckdriver," the unnerving "Wife"), and less so in others (the interminable, sluggishly-paced "Poor David"). Reading all of these over the course of a few days probably wasn't a good idea, since Moloney's writerly tactics become somewhat apparent after just a couple of stories. But I can't deny that there are some really excellent stories here. Some not-so-great ones too... but you can always pick and choose.
January 30, 2014
I always have trouble with anthologies. To me, there seems to always be one really fabulous story, then the others border on okay or just uninteresting. This was not the case with Things Withered. As I read, the stories seemed to get better, darker, spookier. Each one standing out from the others. All stories were well written, and gripping. Not a dull moment to be had between the covers.
The stories in Things Withered were not check-the-locks-twice scary, but definitely were chill-down-your-spine-spooky.
Thank you to NetGalley and Diamond for allowing me to read and honestly review this book.
The stories in Things Withered were not check-the-locks-twice scary, but definitely were chill-down-your-spine-spooky.
Thank you to NetGalley and Diamond for allowing me to read and honestly review this book.
July 23, 2016
This is a fantastic collection. I loved every single story, especially the last one. Moloney has a way of getting under your skin slowly and then right at the end, grabs you by the throat and won't let go. I've read almost everything she's written and this is at top along with The Dwelling. She knows how to write realistic women's characters in horrible dark situations that send shivers down your spine. You wonder:"How did she know I was thinking that?" Buy this book. She's a master storyteller!
March 25, 2014
Some great horror stories in here. I loved the plot twists and the suburban setting, and her style of writing also inspired me to write a new short story of my own.
I realized that while I hate horror movies, I love reading horror. My one complaint would be that many of these stories feel similar if you read a whole collection of them. However, they often have a plot twist or scary moment right at the end, which creates an emotional wallop!!
I realized that while I hate horror movies, I love reading horror. My one complaint would be that many of these stories feel similar if you read a whole collection of them. However, they often have a plot twist or scary moment right at the end, which creates an emotional wallop!!
August 13, 2016
Author Susie Moloney possesses a special grace--a distinctive perspective uncommon to other writers,and the ability to deliver that perspective to her reader. I first discovered this through her fine novels "The Thirteen" and "The Dwelling." In "Things Withered" she extends her grace into the realm of short stories.
March 8, 2014
There wasn’t much I can complain about with this book. Of course there were pieces that I found more memorable and enjoyed more than others, but I didn’t find any of them ‘bad’. I enjoyed the characters, the plots, and Susie Moloney’s writing style. It was truly fantastic.
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February 6, 2014
Beautiful cover art. This is a great collection of thrilling short stories. A wonderful author who can get under your skin grab hold and not let go. The characters and situations are well written and entertaining. Ms. Moloney can give you that subtle creepy feeling like no other. I was entertained throughout each story.
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February 16, 2014
A bit uneven. Some of the stories I liked very much, and some just felt like an extended horror punch line.
All of the stories have some element of "other" - supernatural, dark twits, horror. The ones that I liked dealt more with personal demons and smaller lives.
All of the stories have some element of "other" - supernatural, dark twits, horror. The ones that I liked dealt more with personal demons and smaller lives.
November 9, 2014
A fine collection of stories; cleverly crafted and well written. A favorite is "The Last Living Summer"; a poignant, but not overdone tale with a Nevil Shute "On the Beach" sense, which serves as a warning for us all.............
August 5, 2016
3.5/5
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January 9, 2014
I liked it but it didn't live up to its potential.
April 20, 2014
Dark and sometimes humorous". Can't wait for more from this author.
April 24, 2014
OMG - I absolutely loved these stories! They start out so normal and then slide into creepy before you know it. So well written. Highly recommend this book!
June 26, 2014
I give up. I read the first three stories and didn't understand the endings. Definitely not my "cup of tea".
June 3, 2018
This was a great group of short stories. I liked all the characters in each story. They were fleshed out and interesting. Usually, when you read a series of short stories, there's always a few that don't fit in or just aren't as good as the rest. That wasn't the case with these. Great book!
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