What do you think?
Rate this book
I'm a Search and Rescue Officer for the US Forest Service, I have some stories to tell
Ratings & Reviews
Friends & Following
Create a free account to discover what your friends think of this book!
Community Reviews
Displaying 1 - 7 of 7 reviews
December 15, 2025
*** Creepcast finally redid their very first episode of the podcast for this anthology. Once again as always, fantastic. An amazing mix between realistic survival mistakes—an exhausted hiker dying in a tree well during a particularly brutal winter, for example—and baffling, horrifying supernatural horror—too many to list. The stairs in the woods are the most well known; but I’m partial to the stories of the people without faces. The two stories that deal with deaths of young people with disabilities always without fail make me tear up. All the stars.
December 30, 2025
*.✧ I’M A SEARCH AND RESCUE OFFICER FOR THE US FOREST SERVICE, I HAVE SOME STORIES TO TELL - SEARCHANDRESCUEWOODS ✧.*
Sorry to say I’m a fellow Creepcast-er who is indeed staying creepy, but I am sure I listened to Mr. Creepypasta read this or something. I think I remember somewhere that the author is a known person but I can’t remember how I know that. I might be mistaking it for something else.
It’s a common compliment about how eerie and random a lot of this stuff is, and how that it’s perfectly described, how patterns are found within the tales themselves, creatures lining up in characteristics. Yes yes yes. I will say here that I love the gory details, love the descriptions of mutilation. The author is not shy about that kind of stuff, delightful. Truly delightful.
The stairs are everybody’s favorite part, it’s super iconic, but I love the hole-punching segment, where compared to the dogs losing a boy’s scent entirely, they only pick it up in grid-like patterns. As the author describes, with the pattern of the red sections on a checkers board. Anyone who has read this knows where that leads, ahh the whole concept in itself is incredibly creative. This whole thing is so creative that I’m just dying of jealousy. I can only dream of coming up with so many throwaway ideas for scary things that can happen, all in a bundle for Reddit.
Absolute gold. Peak writing, peak concepts. Peak!
Sorry to say I’m a fellow Creepcast-er who is indeed staying creepy, but I am sure I listened to Mr. Creepypasta read this or something. I think I remember somewhere that the author is a known person but I can’t remember how I know that. I might be mistaking it for something else.
It’s a common compliment about how eerie and random a lot of this stuff is, and how that it’s perfectly described, how patterns are found within the tales themselves, creatures lining up in characteristics. Yes yes yes. I will say here that I love the gory details, love the descriptions of mutilation. The author is not shy about that kind of stuff, delightful. Truly delightful.
“‘You went up them, didn’t you.’ My buddy said it wasn’t phrased as a question. He asked how his trainer knew. The trainer just shook his head. ‘Because we didn’t find her. The dogs lost her scent.’” (part 3)
The stairs are everybody’s favorite part, it’s super iconic, but I love the hole-punching segment, where compared to the dogs losing a boy’s scent entirely, they only pick it up in grid-like patterns. As the author describes, with the pattern of the red sections on a checkers board. Anyone who has read this knows where that leads, ahh the whole concept in itself is incredibly creative. This whole thing is so creative that I’m just dying of jealousy. I can only dream of coming up with so many throwaway ideas for scary things that can happen, all in a bundle for Reddit.
Absolute gold. Peak writing, peak concepts. Peak!
December 17, 2025
This is a classic no sleep anthology type shit. The precursor to so much of my favorite horror stuff on the internet. Inspired by some of the most wacked out true events (Missing 411 cases) and it even was the topic of the first episode of one of my favorite podcasts these days: Creepcast.
All in all classic, iconic and recommended. OG shit.
No spoilers; no nothing; cool stuff; go check it out.
9/10 stars
All in all classic, iconic and recommended. OG shit.
No spoilers; no nothing; cool stuff; go check it out.
9/10 stars
June 27, 2022
This was genuinely chilling and beautiful. A little bit of gore, a lot of weirdness, and a sprinkling of believability is the perfect recipe for a true horror novella. This… this is gonna keep me awake.
May 22, 2025
One of my favorites.
December 15, 2025
“Don’t touch them. Don’t look at them. Don’t go up them.” So so good
Displaying 1 - 7 of 7 reviews