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Red Leather is a ghost story about a anniversary dinner at a diner in a red leather booth. This story is great Fracassi takes a sweet story and flips it turning it into nightmare fuel. The imagery is very good and vivid. I like the setup and the twist was set up so well. This on wasn't the strongest but there is imagery that will stick with me for a while. 4.6

I Think My Treehouse is Haunted is a great story. It has coming of age vibes. The horror is very effected one of the best endings. The story is very tense. It develops the creeping dread very well. I love how the treehouse was described, it gave me all kinds of nostalgia. 4.8

The Resident is about a pair of brothers who break into a house and find there is more going on than they thought. This story was creepy. Great imagery with a quick pace. The story is a little predictable but still fun. The ending was good. 3.8

Dream of Me is the scariest story. Very creepy dreams described very visually. It follows Jenna who gets a dream journal from her Nana who hates her mother and blames her for killing Jenna dad who took his own life. The story was a little too long and I don't know if everything made since on the story. It was just an okay story that had good scares but I wanted more from the narrative. 3.2

The Black Rider is a super short story about an unloving grandmother who takes guardianship over two kids. She uses a figure called the Black Rider to keep the kids in line. Saying, he will ride on a dragon a pluck your sould with a scythe. The story reminded me of a fairy tale that went bad. An okay story that you could easily read in to where it is going. 3

My Love, Do Not Wake is a bizarro horror, about a married woman who has an affair. The who is the interesting part. I enjoyed this story. It says a lot about insta love and relationships. The story has a couple of twists. I only saw the last one coming but Fracassi takes the twist and keeps going.further with it. I laughed out loud at the absurdity. 3.8

Betrothed is about an older couple who have been together for 30 years, and get a burial plot together so they can be side by side forever. But what if one dies first and it gets to be an issue. I loved this short story. Very atmospheric and deals with a real conversation, that can be a little morbid. The story is very short, but I was hooked at the begining. 4.4

Point Oh One is a story about Charlie who is a gambler down on his luck. He sees an opportunity to settle somethings and takes it. This story is messy in the best ways. The story relies on a trope you've read about or scene and saw it work out smoothly, this story makes things go messy. I liked all the character reveals and the ending. 4.1

The Hunter I fast paced super short story, with great descriptions. I loved the twist and did not predict it. It is about an abused son that finds help in the darkness. 4

King Mob is a story that has great descriptions, but I could not connect with the story. The story involved the poet William Blake, which I have a passing knowledge of. I guessed the twist which Fracassi has fun with the imagery. If you know Blake's poems you will get more out of the story than I did. I thought more could have been done to show his poetic mind. 2

The Servitor is about a the job of cleaning and maintaining booby traps for an ancient Inca treasure. This story was a Rapture Chapbook. The story is awesome, so many layers with a great ending. As I was reading the story, I would question something, then a page later Fracassi would answer it. I loved the lore and the ancestry of serving for the family. The traps were fun and well thought out. 5

The Mummified Corpse of Reese Witherspoon is a Bizarro Horror that takes place in the future where the mummified corpse of Reese Witherspoon is won and stays with an artist for a week. The story is darkly humorous some of it worked, but the story felt very disjointed. It felt like two ideas smashed together. 2.5

The Visitor is a great haunted house story about a priest sent on a snowy night to investigate and bless. But there is more than meets the eye to this house. This story had me on the edge. The slow dread that creeps in is amazing. Great writing of tension with good descriptions. 4.5

D7 is a story about a haunted jukebox that is so freaking dark. A couple looking for a late night drink are suddenly trapped in a bar with a jukebox that at first just wants them to dance, but then it wants so much more. Their is a great final twist and a good mystery surrounding the haunting. Great writing on the couple and the interpretation on communicating on looks alone. This story was a novella 4.6.

The Little House On the Kansas Prairie by Jonathan Maberry is a story taking place after Dorothy comes back from Oz. This story was a creepy fever dream horror. It reminded me a little of the expanded The Stand, when you think the danger is over it still lingers. I love what the story with the house falling on the Wicked Witch of the East. Even though we saw no blood it didn't mean the house wasn't stained with it. 4

The story fills in events from a different perspective that weren't needed. 3

The story fills in event

Al Jinjur's Last Stand by Una McCormack is a story about a group of girls in Oz that are convinced their neighbor is a witch. Two girls are dared to find out, and it leads to surprising results. This story was okay. I liked the message of being different is okay. The story was very girl power which I liked. I did not like the title at all. This is another story that went on too long.

Silver & Gold by Christina Henry is a reimaging of Dorothy, meet the Wizard and others in the real world before Oz. I was the most excited to read Christina Henry's story and she delivered. I love her reimaging and where her mind goes. There's so many little Easter eggs. The story went in ways that I did not expect. Good character work all around. 4.4

I ended up enjoying most of the story. 3.7

The Other Foot by Stark Holborn is a noir set in Oz that reminded me of Roger Rabbit, because the detective is a boot brought to life by the Power of Life. He investigates a murder with items missing. The story has fun with the premise but could have went farther. There's a good gumshoe lime in there and he likes a leg. The writing style took a bit to get into and it was hard to picture at first.

This is the saddest story that has a lot of metaphors about home. I liked the beginning and the writing. The story is full circle which I appreciated but took too long to make its point. 3.1

Heart's Desire by Robert Shearman is about an old widowed man dealing with his loss. He wants to restore her overgrown garden. He gets angry at a stone and removes it, but it wasn't an ordinary stone it was a yellow one. Soon Dorothy comes through having lost her way ask about a yellow pathway that the old man lies about. The story is about grief and loss. It was good but it goes on too long.

The Lost Princess of Zo by Delilah S. Dawson is a brutal horror tale of Dorothy trapped in the opposite land of Oz, a land called Zo. It is a land ruled by stuffed bears, that want you to look just like them. Dawson has a lot of fun with being cruel. This story is terrifying. It is the most memorable story so far. Even though this is a horror story, it one of the closer stories to the original Oz. 4.5

I wanted a more solid ending. I thought the story was trying to do a little too much for a short story, it was a good attempt.3.4

The Wizard of the Bookish Omnibus by Paul Magrs is about a bus library that an old retired man created. His readings of The Wizard of Oz from memory are fun since he keeps forgetting. The town already has a library and wants the bus gone. The story is told from a boy's POV that is having trouble at home. The story is kind of about the loss of magic, with reality coming in. I loved the old man.

The story is very humorous. It has a lot of fun with morality. A little lose in its connection to Oz but better than some. M.R.Careys writing really shines. I love the way he wrote the patchwork girl in rhyming poetry. 4.2

Final Report On the Rex Rembrandt Affair (by Scraps, the Patchworkof Oz) by M.R. Carey is about a master thief / con man meeting a frustrated magian from Oz. The magician is in London at a bar, he shows the man his magic powder, that can make inanimate objects alive. The thief swindles him and sets about making action figures into thieves. The story is crazy and about creation and God.

The Bluejay by Ian What's is the story of a bluejay making his way to Oz in the same cyclone that Dorothy did. The Bluejay gets to be the hero of the story and interacts with some of the characters in Oz. I thought the story was very clever. The dialogue could have been better, but a cute story overall. 4

It is a good story, but me as a reader was waiting for an Oz that does not show up. 3.7