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Excellent horror short stories by exceptional authors.

Excellent horror short stories from exceptional authors!

Although I’m slowly making my way through this book it’s not a reflection of a lack of quality of the stories. The authors’ stories are each unique and compelling.

Just finished the excellent short story The Rider by Tananarive Due. Dark Lore feel, historical setting during Jim Crow era in the south. I haven’t read Due’s work before but I was impressed. Her book The Between,1995, is on my TBR list and I just noted Gabino Iglesias, another great horror writer, is currently reading it! She also has a story in the collection The End of the World as We Know It, 2025. Awesome.

Story Lisiren by Erin E. Adams. A tale of three sisters and a mysterious sea monster bargaining for their lives. Author has a debut novel called The Jackal.

A uniquely creative story by author Violet Allen titled The Other One. Excerpt: “She sent me a picture of a heart, a real heart, bloody and fleshy, sitting on our—his—coffee table. It really looks real, so much so that I drop my phone when I see it. “Fuck!” I pick the phone up when I have gathered myself. It still works, but now a long crack winds across the screen, bisecting the image of the heart.”

Invasion of the Baby Snatchers by Lesley Nneka Arimah - Great and disturbing story. Aliens using people as incubators and organized (military and investigative agencies) efforts to manage, analyze, and defeat this occupying alien force learning “us” over time and getting better at hiding and deception.