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connorjdaley's review
challenging
dark
emotional
mysterious
sad
tense
fast-paced
4.0
I grabbed this one during the Velox Books rerelease, but decided to also grab the audio so that I’d have time to get through it for Hispanic Heritage Month. Horror anthologies are my jam and this one didn’t disappoint.
Reyes puts some fun, some horrific, and some really unique ideas into this one. I definitely imagined that some of these could have been longer, or later adapted out into full length works. There are just a couple that mesh a few things in a new way, and that would be cool to see it explored further. Not that the short form isn’t good too!
A lot of these take place on Halloween night, or close to it, and it definitely works as I personally tend to pick up horror short story collections around Spooky Season.
Also shoutout to Jack Forest making an appearance, I will definitely be reading that novelette soon too.
I was lucky enough to be an ARC reader for Devil’s Hill II, so it was cool to step back and see where it all started.
Personally a 4/5*. House of Souls and The Monster Slash were my favorites.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Body horror, Murder, Sexual assault, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Toxic friendship, Animal death, Cursing, Misogyny, Toxic relationship, Cancer, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Death, Death of parent, Gore, Gun violence, Rape, Torture, and Violence
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