Jose Alonso’s Reviews > 50 True Stories That Will Scare You to Death: True Crime, Hauntings, Aliens, and More > Status Update

The second chapter (The Gone) was the kind of reading that you just can’t put down. In just half an hour, I read through the entire chapter because I literally couldn’t stop. The stories, scenarios and situations were all the fascinating type of interesting that a good mystery has. I’m still early in my reading rediscovery journey, but I genuinely missed reading a book and not being able to put it down.

So far, the book is definitely entertaining and creepy, but I wouldn’t say it’s in a similar vein something like Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark. Those stories are genuinely scary and eerie, while these are more like the kind of creepy “news” stories you’d hear about and they’re presented as such.

That’s not to say it’s a bad book by any means, but different from a proper “scary story book”.