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I thought these were real on the job horror stories...

The next story was "Grist" by Zak Jarvis. Unique, science fiction-type short story that was actually quite intriguing. The biggest issue I had with it was that it felt like a chapter within a bigger framework. It was a bit hard to figure out exactly what was going on. By the time I reached the conclusion, I felt that pieces of the puzzles were missing and/or quite blurry and required more expansion/explanation.

The 4th story is Carpool by Gregory Norris. I really enjoyed this story until the end. The story wrapped up in a way that I didn't expect and I felt it left too many questions unanswered. It gave the feel of a cop-out in which the author rushed the ending. Unfortunate, as the rest of the story was intriguing.

Read the first story: The Chapel of Unrest by Stephen Volk. It was not a great story. It lagged in some places but was very descriptive. It probably would work well as a episode on a program like 'Tales from the Crypt' if it were made for TV. It did not evoke for me a sense of terror or horror... Mainly because the story about the prison in Ushpur was not expanded. The ending was predictable.