Dark Things V

Dark Things #5

by Jessy Marie Roberts (Editor)

Embrace your dark side with this eclectic collection of horror stories. Missing children, closet monsters, ghoul men and strange keys; alien abductions, body collectors and demonic possession. Frightening fits of rage and terror are soaked into every page. Drenched in the dark and dreary, this volume contains the following short stories: Hexting by Gregory L. Norris, The Monster of All Monsters by Kelly Hashway, Ghoul Man by Scott M. Sandridge, With the Turn of a Key by Eden Royce, Expecting by Marc Sorondo, Better Homemade by Daniel J.D. Stone, Eye for an Eye by O.J. Cade, The Nature Elementals by A.J. French, The Devil's Song by Ellie Garratt, Lord of Slum by Matt Kurtz, Food of the Gods by John Pennington, The Machine Fink by Mike Phillips, Daddy's Little Secret by Charles Day, The ReNOWn Balloon Trial by Douglas J. Ogurek, Guilt by Eva Glynn Stephens, Under the Skin by Rebecca Lloyd, Hungry for Winter by Christian Crews, 'Til the End of the Road by Tony Simmons & Darkened by Gary Buettner.

Genres: Horror

206 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 2010

About the author

Jessy Marie Roberts lives in a "haunted" house in Western Nebraska with her husband and their two dogs, Tucker and Snags. She grew up in Morgan Hill, California. Visit her online at jessymarieroberts.weebly.com.

Reviews

[Octavia Cade · Rating 3 out of 5]

I've only just got round to reading this, some years after it turned up in the post. (Oh, to-read piles, you are large and intimidating.) One of my very early stories, "Eye for an Eye", is in here though, so this is hardly an unbiased review on my part. As always in short story anthologies, some of the tales are more interesting than others. The best one here, I think, is "Under the Skin" by Rebecca Lloyd, which is a creepy little piece about a woman turning into a reptile - the description of her skin-shedding hands is genuinely revolting, so that was fun. I also liked the road-trip after the zombie apocalypse story "'Til the End of the Road", by Tony Simmons, which had zombies potentially evolving into more intelligent creatures than the norm.