Gerhardt Schuette’s Reviews > In That Endlessness, Our End > Status Update

Two final gems round out the collection as they play on time, trauma, and what we owe to our own flesh and blood. "Halloo" offers a glimpse of a daughters return to an unwelcome home and "Cuckoo" greets the parents of an unwelcome child that the earlier take in this collection. "Church in the Mountains" deserves an honorable mention for finding horror in that show you swear you saw once..
-Best Horror Stories of 2023

Gemma Files takes things you don't think much about such as the odd house on your block ("Come Closer"), the wiring of your home ("Bulb"), a new apartment (in both "The Puppet Motel" and "Always After Three"), or even one's own dreams ("Sleep Hygeine") and just asks two horrifying questions: Do we notice enough about the spaces we inhabit? Do the spaces we inhabit think about us?

-Favorite Horror Stories of 2023

My go-to comfort genre will always be horror anthologies or single author collections but I struggle to remember where the most impactful, thought-provoking or unsettling stories were found. In 2023, I will begin including brief summaries of the gems I find within these collections in my updates for personal reference. Should one spark your interest, be warned: I'll gladly lose sleep for a memorable story. Will you?