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calliek927's review against another edition
3.0
3.5 or so...
There were some good stories here and others that just didn't do it for me. All in all it was ok.
There were some good stories here and others that just didn't do it for me. All in all it was ok.
richardleis's review against another edition
5.0
I have definitely been in the mood for ghost stories, and Midnight in the Graveyard, the first anthology from Silver Shamrock Publishing, delivers the ghostly goods! This anthology was edited by Kenneth W. Cain and it arrived in the first monthly book box offered from the publisher. So happy I subscribed!
“Devil’s Dip” by Shannon Felton is a devilishly delightful start to a book full of hauntings both familiar and unfamiliar. “Tug O’ War” by Chad Lutzke chilled me to the bone with its shocking cautionary ending. Sometimes characters in these stories confront and survive their guilt and worst fears, but other times, they are pulled into the dark forever for their sins. Occasionally, I worried the stories were becoming too familiar and too rote, but the next one always surprised me with the unexpected. “The Glimmer Girls” by Kenneth McKinley is a revealing fictionalization of a real post-World War I labor crime I turned to Wikipedia immediately after I finished to learn more about. “The Putpocket” by Lee Mountford fully immerses the reader in 1850s and 1860s London. “The Cemetery Man“ by John Everson is disturbingly sexy about why you shouldn’t have sex in a graveyard. “Last Call at the Sudden Death Saloon” by Allan Laverone threatens one horror, and reveals an even more disturbing one. “Join My Club” by Somer Canon is very short and very affecting. I would have enjoyed more of the weirdness and play with form that Kenneth W. Cain brings to “Dog Days,” but the one-two punch of “Haunted World” by Robert McCammon and “Ghost Blood” by Kelli Owen is alone worth the price of admission. Several stories made me cry and the crisp coldness of “Portrait” by Kealan Patrick Burke which ends the anthology will linger in my mind for a long time.
Next up: reading several novels published by Silver Shamrock Publishing in 2019, including novels by some of the authors included in Midnight in the Graveyard. I’m also looking forward to the next anthology in the series: Midnight in the Pentagram. Yikes!
“Devil’s Dip” by Shannon Felton is a devilishly delightful start to a book full of hauntings both familiar and unfamiliar. “Tug O’ War” by Chad Lutzke chilled me to the bone with its shocking cautionary ending. Sometimes characters in these stories confront and survive their guilt and worst fears, but other times, they are pulled into the dark forever for their sins. Occasionally, I worried the stories were becoming too familiar and too rote, but the next one always surprised me with the unexpected. “The Glimmer Girls” by Kenneth McKinley is a revealing fictionalization of a real post-World War I labor crime I turned to Wikipedia immediately after I finished to learn more about. “The Putpocket” by Lee Mountford fully immerses the reader in 1850s and 1860s London. “The Cemetery Man“ by John Everson is disturbingly sexy about why you shouldn’t have sex in a graveyard. “Last Call at the Sudden Death Saloon” by Allan Laverone threatens one horror, and reveals an even more disturbing one. “Join My Club” by Somer Canon is very short and very affecting. I would have enjoyed more of the weirdness and play with form that Kenneth W. Cain brings to “Dog Days,” but the one-two punch of “Haunted World” by Robert McCammon and “Ghost Blood” by Kelli Owen is alone worth the price of admission. Several stories made me cry and the crisp coldness of “Portrait” by Kealan Patrick Burke which ends the anthology will linger in my mind for a long time.
Next up: reading several novels published by Silver Shamrock Publishing in 2019, including novels by some of the authors included in Midnight in the Graveyard. I’m also looking forward to the next anthology in the series: Midnight in the Pentagram. Yikes!
fleurhoplof's review
dark
emotional
mysterious
reflective
sad
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? N/A
- Loveable characters? N/A
- Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A
3.5
paulataua's review
3.0
Twenty five short stories by new voices in horror together in an anthology. As with many anthologies of this nature it is a case of ‘more dud than good’, but the stories are quite short and nearly every one of them can be finished in a fifteen or twenty minute subway ride. Very few hit the spot for me, but that was more a case of not being my kind of horror than being bad. Shannon Felton’s ‘Devil’s Dip’ , Chad Lutzke’s ‘Tug of War’, and Kealan Patrick Burke’s ‘Portrait’ were my favorites.
johnlynchbooks's review against another edition
5.0
I’ve gotta be honest, I’m not much for anthologies. I find them very hit and miss typically, and although I’ve read some great ones this year, I’m not much of a fan of short stories in general. I just find it hard to get into a book where every 20 or 30 pages one story ends and another begins. I’ve tried to get over that by reading one or two stories at a time, over a longer period of time, rather than powering through like it’s a novel.
BUT, this being a book published by silver shamrock, I had some high hopes. I’ve yet to read anything they’ve put out that hasn’t been good.
I’m very pleased to say, this is one of my favorite anthologies I’ve ever read. There are a lot of authors I was familiar with, but quite a few I hadn’t read prior to this. After reading this, I’ve got a few more authors I need to read.
Some of my favorites were stories by Shannon Felton, Jeremy Hepler, Todd Kiesling and Glenn Rolfe, although there wasn’t really anything in here that wasn’t good.
If you’re looking for a spooky anthology, you can’t go wrong with midnight in a graveyard.
BUT, this being a book published by silver shamrock, I had some high hopes. I’ve yet to read anything they’ve put out that hasn’t been good.
I’m very pleased to say, this is one of my favorite anthologies I’ve ever read. There are a lot of authors I was familiar with, but quite a few I hadn’t read prior to this. After reading this, I’ve got a few more authors I need to read.
Some of my favorites were stories by Shannon Felton, Jeremy Hepler, Todd Kiesling and Glenn Rolfe, although there wasn’t really anything in here that wasn’t good.
If you’re looking for a spooky anthology, you can’t go wrong with midnight in a graveyard.
stewie's review against another edition
5.0
In his introduction to Midnight in the Graveyard, author [a:Jonathan Janz|4389526|Jonathan Janz|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1518203266p2/4389526.jpg] ([b:Children of the Dark|28963838|Children of the Dark|Jonathan Janz|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1454965669l/28963838._SY75_.jpg|49191503]) writes, “…Silver Shamrock is doing this thing right. They assembled a ferocious roster of talent for Midnight in the Graveyard and created an anthology certain to give you hours of pleasure and more than a few nightmares.” By God did Janz nail it. Look, I wear my love for anthologies right there on my sleeve and anyone who talks with me about them for more than three minutes will hear my love for Ellen Datlow. Every anthology I read gets compared to a Datlow-edited one. Right or wrong, I can’t help it. So how did Midnight in the Graveyard editor [a:Kenneth W. Cain|4646345|Kenneth W. Cain|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1567518376p2/4646345.jpg] do? Exceptional.
You can read my full review at Horror DNA by clicking here.
You can read my full review at Horror DNA by clicking here.
lady_nett's review against another edition
4.0
This was a massive collection of scary stories and I would say 95% of them were simply spectacular. There was such a diversity within hte story and no story was like another, they were all different and could easily stand on their own. 25 stories and it was very hard to pick my favorites but I would have to say my top stories were:
"The Glimmer Girls" by Kenneth McKinley
"Justin's Favorite" by Jeremy Hepler
"The Cemetery Man" by John Everson
"The Gravedigger's Story" by Kathryn Meyer Griffith
"The Glimmer Girls" by Kenneth McKinley
"Justin's Favorite" by Jeremy Hepler
"The Cemetery Man" by John Everson
"The Gravedigger's Story" by Kathryn Meyer Griffith
calliek_reads's review against another edition
3.0
3.5 or so...
There were some good stories here and others that just didn't do it for me. All in all it was ok.
There were some good stories here and others that just didn't do it for me. All in all it was ok.