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A review by nerdontheloose
The Passengers You Cannot See by The Behrg
5.0
The passengers you cannot see is a collection of 14 short stories and a novella by The Behrg. All ranging from a plethora of out of the box and mind bending topics, but mostly with an aspect of horror in it, though sometimes very subtle. There is psychological horror, body horror, somewhat vampirish, cannibalistic creatures and town folks, haunted houses, ghosts, murderous authors, and crazy book reviewers (yes you read that right!). So, basically there is something for everyone, if you have a taste for crazy, and trust me none of it is clichéd or anything like you’ve ever read before, these stories are so out there. What’s incredible is that all these stories have an underlying emotion very subtly hinted and told between the lines that kind of explains why the characters did what they did, despair and depression being on top of that list.
There wasn’t a single story that I didn’t take something from and liked something about it. That said, some of the stories were beyond me and I couldn’t make much sense of where they went with the snap of a finger, the ideas they are based on however, are definitely very intriguing and the writing is just fascinating. Most of these stories have quite an open ending and it takes quite a bit of imagination and your own ability to join links and to understand what might have happened at the end and where it’d have gone from that point. Recommended if you like short stories that speak to your imagination and turn the gears of your mind.
There is also a kind of a behind the scenes, heartwarming note by the author at end of the book, sharing whys and hows of these stories, and what inspired him to write these, his struggle with depression one of the major contributing factor. He also calls out anyone struggling with depression to feel free to reach out to him if they need help.
There wasn’t a single story that I didn’t take something from and liked something about it. That said, some of the stories were beyond me and I couldn’t make much sense of where they went with the snap of a finger, the ideas they are based on however, are definitely very intriguing and the writing is just fascinating. Most of these stories have quite an open ending and it takes quite a bit of imagination and your own ability to join links and to understand what might have happened at the end and where it’d have gone from that point. Recommended if you like short stories that speak to your imagination and turn the gears of your mind.
There is also a kind of a behind the scenes, heartwarming note by the author at end of the book, sharing whys and hows of these stories, and what inspired him to write these, his struggle with depression one of the major contributing factor. He also calls out anyone struggling with depression to feel free to reach out to him if they need help.