Strange Little Horrors and Other Stories

by Amy Cross

A little girl plays a prank on her sister, only to have the tables turned once she's alone.A ghost finds herself haunted by the living in a seaside cottage.A widow tries to keep up with her online reviews, even as her daughter begins to exhibit worrying behavior.Running from a deadly pandemic, a woman heads to a remote farmhouse and encounters an infuriating ghost.A man is called to work on a boiler that defies belief, and which appears to have become possessed by a mysterious presence.A character in a TV show suddenly discovers the truth about her life, and about the audience that watches her every night.Strange Little Horrors and Other Stories contains the horror short stories Strange Little Horrors, The Reviews of Janet Verblanke, The Boiler, Sitcom, The Cough and The Haunting of Wind's End Cottage.

Genres: Horror, Short Stories, Paranormal, Fiction

278 pages, Paperback

Published October 22, 2020

About the author

Amy Cross writes novels and short stories in a number of genres, mainly horror, paranormal and fantasy. Books include The Farm, Annie's Room, The Island, Eli's Town and Asylum.

Reviews

[Maya]

I love the short stories Amy Cross writes. This collection was okay, I still had a 5 stars one that I loved.
Overall 3.5 stars.
Strange little horrors – 3 stars
The reviews of Janet Verblanke – 4 stars
The boiler – 3 stars
Sitcom – 5 stars
The cough – 3.5 stars
The Haunting of Wind’s End Cottage – 3 stars
It’s a big achievement not having a story I dnf-ed here in comparison to other short story collections.

[Wanda]

Short but good!

The stories were quite short but they were very good. I'd rather read a short book with stories like these than a large book full of boring stories.

[Stéphane]

Insanely original stories. And I mean real stories, with a satisfying ending. No weird nonsense where « original » and « weird » are just synonyms of « lazy storytelling » and « geez how can I end this crap, well let’s just not end it and make it an “open and ambiguous ending“ or stop in the middle of it.
Here you have real engaging stories, with characters, a plot and, again because it’s so rare now, a proper and satisfying ending.
Favorites are: Sitcom, The Boiler, The reviews of Janet Verblanke, and The haunting of Wind’s end cottage. But the rest of the stories are also great! A very recommended read!

[Richard Kettlewood]

RA

Some may say Amy Cross' stories are badly written, full of errors and that she writes too many, saying she should write fewer stories better. But I say keep churning them out! Your ideas are way, way, way off the beaten track. Your exuberant imagination makes familiar themes refreshingly new. I love reading Amy's work (that's what it is!) and encountering her vivid imagination as it rushes out to meet me.

[John Morris]

Weird and wacky!

A selection of short stories that could be read in one sitting. Some were better than others but, overall, this book was an enjoyable read. The television soap story was the weirdest and the story of a living (boring) man haunting a ghost was most certainly the wackiest. All in all a good read.

[Lazy Days]

Quick and easy read with some twists. Quite tame compared to other horror I have read and wouldn't keep me up at night scared of the dark or gross me out. My fav was the first story with the scarecrow and least fav was the last book with the irritating AF old dude. Could have used some editing and there were a few typos.

[Samantha Moravec]

Great collection of short horror stories!

I really enjoyed this collection of short horror stories, I found them all to be very unique and immersive. I enjoyed reading these in bed before I fell asleep and found each one to be pretty much the perfect length. I'm definitely going to be checking out more of this authors work.

[Miss M Stanbrook]

Nice one Amy

I've read many of Amy's books but I really enjoyed this style the best. I loved the variety ant the fact I didn't have to stay awake all night to finish each story. Cheers Amy. Keep up the good work ❤

[Cherry]

Great mix of horror stories

Definitely recommend this to anyone who loves a great mix of horror stories. Well written and will definitely keep you engrossed from the first page to the last.

[Louie Adams]

Have never read Amy Cross but I enjoyed this short story collection. A fast read and more about PG-rated fantasy horror than any kind of trauma inducing tales that will keep you up at night (although, the title story comes close!).

[Vickie]

2.5 Stars... I thought the themes and concepts within the selected offerings were solid. However, not strongly written. The tales were in need of some editing. That being said, I rather enjoyed The Boiler, and The Haunting of Wind's End Cottage.

[Nicola]

Good collection of stories

[Tracy]

Creepy stories, light and easy to read, “Sitcom” was very clever, I enjoyed the last story the most “The Haunting of Winds End Cottage”.

[Dawn Watson]

Not really worth the time to read

Not very interesting especially after the last set of horror stories I read and editing was terrible. Not a very good imagination.

[Tammy]

Not bad

If you don't get stuck on the typos and apparent lack of proofreading, the stories themselves are an enjoyable way to pass a little time.

[Fifa]

Loved this book 👍

[Sandy]

Creepy, good collection of short stories. The Boiler was probably my favorite but all were good.

[Jessica (Read book. Repeat)]

This was a great little collection of short horror stories. Some I enjoyed more than others, but over all it was a great start to my spooky month reading.

[Raymond]

Over all a good read. some great imaginative stories. so as a first time reader of Amy's work i will seek out another.

[Cindy Pittser]

Review

Good book. recommend. I think it's stupid and irritating to require a certain number of words when I just want to say it's a good book!

[Alisha Neal]

One star for the ONE story I actually really liked. Most of the stories in this book were boring/not really scary at all. The boiler story? What was that? I thought this was gonna be way more promising than it was. I liked the review story only, sorry.

[MR ALEXANDER DICKINSON]

Some good stories here, especially the one with the scarecrow.

[Christine Dunne]

Wonderful as usual

Amy cross I love your books. They are all different and unusual. Please keep writing them and ill keep reading them and be
Enjoying them sincerely Christine dunne Harlingen tx