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3.82 AVERAGE
3.82 AVERAGE
Yeah, I said I wasn't going to read this one, but that's only if I have to get it off the shelf myself. It was my brother.
I'm going to take a tip from one of the other reviewers and list out all of the story names so I can review them one by one.
First off. The Hitchhiker creeped me out. (Well, more like startled me. Takes a lot to creep me out.) You never think that the narrator is evil. Never. But then nothing is sure in horror stories. *creepy laugh*
The Sound of Murder was pretty weird (I didn't understand how she was able to hear him at the end--was it not her hearing aid?)
I thought Burned was disgusting and pretty implausible. I feel like the uncle would stop lying in the sun once he started burning to a crisp (not just sunburn, but literal burning). Plus, frying oil isn't going to literally fry the old boy. At least, I don't think it would.
Flight 715 was pretty cool (yeah, yeah, yeah, I did just use "pretty" in every single paragraph except the first one up until now). I kind of liked how nobody died . . . probably why I don't generally read horror, but it was nice.
Howard's End is the one where the boy goes to heaven, as he thinks, gets bored, and tries to leave, but then he figures out that he's not actually in heaven. I was a little miffed at their description of heaven as boring, but when it turned out that it wasn't heaven, I was slightly satisfied.
As for The Elevator, I just have to wonder what they did with the bones and the clothes. Plus, if they had fifty-eight seconds to eat a boy, wouldn't they be a bit messy?
In The Phone Goes Dead, the plot was a little fragmented--lightning striking a phone is way too subtle and random. Also, I still wasn't sure whether the main character was dead at the end or not. He could have been not-dead and he was just calling, and everyone thought he was dead. It would make more sense as to the story for him to be dead, but I was annoyed because living people can call that phone, too, so you can't assume anything.
Twist Cottage was awful. The main character's dad ended up like a murderer for hire, and the main character just put up with it.
The Shortest Horror Story Ever Written was pretty genius. The concept was interesting, but the story itself wasn't so great. It's sheer poetry, it is. And not a semicolon in the entire thing. (I would have written too much and had to throw a semicolon in a few times. At least, I think so.)
So. Will you read it?
I'm going to take a tip from one of the other reviewers and list out all of the story names so I can review them one by one.
First off. The Hitchhiker creeped me out. (Well, more like startled me. Takes a lot to creep me out.) You never think that the narrator is evil. Never. But then nothing is sure in horror stories. *creepy laugh*
The Sound of Murder was pretty weird (I didn't understand how she was able to hear him at the end--was it not her hearing aid?)
I thought Burned was disgusting and pretty implausible. I feel like the uncle would stop lying in the sun once he started burning to a crisp (not just sunburn, but literal burning). Plus, frying oil isn't going to literally fry the old boy. At least, I don't think it would.
Flight 715 was pretty cool (yeah, yeah, yeah, I did just use "pretty" in every single paragraph except the first one up until now). I kind of liked how nobody died . . . probably why I don't generally read horror, but it was nice.
Howard's End is the one where the boy goes to heaven, as he thinks, gets bored, and tries to leave, but then he figures out that he's not actually in heaven. I was a little miffed at their description of heaven as boring, but when it turned out that it wasn't heaven, I was slightly satisfied.
As for The Elevator, I just have to wonder what they did with the bones and the clothes. Plus, if they had fifty-eight seconds to eat a boy, wouldn't they be a bit messy?
In The Phone Goes Dead, the plot was a little fragmented--lightning striking a phone is way too subtle and random. Also, I still wasn't sure whether the main character was dead at the end or not. He could have been not-dead and he was just calling, and everyone thought he was dead. It would make more sense as to the story for him to be dead, but I was annoyed because living people can call that phone, too, so you can't assume anything.
Twist Cottage was awful. The main character's dad ended up like a murderer for hire, and the main character just put up with it.
The Shortest Horror Story Ever Written was pretty genius. The concept was interesting, but the story itself wasn't so great. It's sheer poetry, it is. And not a semicolon in the entire thing. (I would have written too much and had to throw a semicolon in a few times. At least, I think so.)
So. Will you read it?
fast-paced
adventurous
dark
mysterious
adventurous
dark
funny
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Reminiscent of tone used in the old TV show Urban Legends, this book contains several horror stories for readers 12+. I wouldn't suggest it for anyone younger unless you know what their tolerances are when it comes to this as there are a couple of stories that involve body horror; a couple which involves the supernatural; as well as a couple of other genre tropes used.
dark
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
dark
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Loveable characters:
Complicated
A nice quick pallet cleanser. With thrilling horror