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The Crane House: A Halloween Story by Brian James Freeman, Rick Hautala, Norman Prentiss, James Newman, James A. Moore, Brian Keene, Ray Garton, Al Sarrantonio, Ronald Kelly, Kealan Patrick Burke, Bev Vincent

verkisto's review

3.0

This was a fun read, but I think the idea of the story -- a round robin story told in eleven chapters by eleven different horror authors -- was better than the implementation. Each author tried to leave the story in a twist for the next author to solve, and by doing so, it forced the other author to write exposition to fill in the new part of the story. It felt a little clunky, and since the plot tended to shift so much, it was hard to get a good sense of the characters.

Still, these are some good authors, and the story they wrote is a perfect read for Halloween (it's short enough to read in a day, and it's set on the same day). I don't know if it's worth the price this book demands on the secondary market, though.