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A review by charshorrorcorner
Dark Screams: Volume Seven by Kaaron Warren, Brian James Freeman, Brian Hodge, Robert R. McCammon, Bill Schweigart, Mick Garris, James Renner, Richard Chizmar
4.0
The Dark Screams series comes along with this, Volume Seven, and continues to be one of the most solid anthology series' out there.
Going into this, I fully expected the Robert McCammon story to be the stand-out, as he's one of my favorite authors and never fails to satisfy my story urge. However, I have to hand it to James Renner because his story A MONSTER COMES TO ASHDOWN FOREST (IN WHICH CHRISTOPHER ROBIN SAYS GOODBYE) not only knocked the ball out of the park, it knocked it out of town! To see the Pooh stories turned into dark fiction pleased me to no end! Five FAT stars!
That said, I did love McCammon's Lizardman. In a way this story reminded me of that TV show I've seen previews of-The Swamp People? But then the tale took a strange twist and landed somewhere totally different. 4 stars!
WEST OF MATAMOROS, NORTH OF HELL by Brian Hodge was a strange tale where mythology and real life blended into a torture chamber of sorts. Never pray to the skeleton saint. 4*
I enjoyed the rest of the stories as well, just as not as much as these 3-and these 3 alone are well worth the price of admission! Highly recommended!
You can pre-order your copy here:Dark Screams: Volume Seven
*Thanks to Hydra and NetGalley for the e-ARC of this book in exchange for my honest review. This is it.*
Going into this, I fully expected the Robert McCammon story to be the stand-out, as he's one of my favorite authors and never fails to satisfy my story urge. However, I have to hand it to James Renner because his story A MONSTER COMES TO ASHDOWN FOREST (IN WHICH CHRISTOPHER ROBIN SAYS GOODBYE) not only knocked the ball out of the park, it knocked it out of town! To see the Pooh stories turned into dark fiction pleased me to no end! Five FAT stars!
That said, I did love McCammon's Lizardman. In a way this story reminded me of that TV show I've seen previews of-The Swamp People? But then the tale took a strange twist and landed somewhere totally different. 4 stars!
WEST OF MATAMOROS, NORTH OF HELL by Brian Hodge was a strange tale where mythology and real life blended into a torture chamber of sorts. Never pray to the skeleton saint. 4*
I enjoyed the rest of the stories as well, just as not as much as these 3-and these 3 alone are well worth the price of admission! Highly recommended!
You can pre-order your copy here:Dark Screams: Volume Seven
*Thanks to Hydra and NetGalley for the e-ARC of this book in exchange for my honest review. This is it.*