Status Updates From Gorilla In My Room

Tonight's stories included The Transformed Mouse and a short succinct work titled The Right Thing which would have warranted a personal Fan Letter from this reader if the legendary Jack Ketchum was still with us. The former prompted a poignant whimsical glimpse of this horror author. It is a children's story he penned mid-70's before he became a novelist. An updated version found a publisher 2003.

The story tonight was Cow With Lucky McKee and it was related to Ketchum's Dead River Trilogy, in this instance The Woman . Excellent story and tied in to the saga of the cannibal clan perfectly. Again, I enjoyed the additional story notes by the author. Ketchum is an incredible story teller.

Tonight I read Winter Child and it was the most eerily creepy and of course well-written, story perhaps thus far It was a scary read and the words by the author were illuminating due to the story's relationship with his more famous horror novels the "Dead River" series..

Tonight's read was really impressive. I really enjoyed Group of Thirty because it was autobiographical. I was duly impressed by Polaroid . It was brilliant. This is truly an exceptional collection.

Just began reading this outstanding short story collection by Jack Ketchum. I loved the Intro by the legendary Ed Lee. Of the early stories I really liked Bully and Listen was also quite memorable. The book is an April Group Read Selection on Splatterpunk.