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A review by doritobabe
The Blumhouse Book of Nightmares: The Haunted City by William Joselyn, Sarah Langan, Mark Neveldine, George Gallo, C. Robert Cargill, Michael Olson, Scott Derrickson, Jason Blum, Simon Kurt Unsworth, Christopher Denham, Steve Faber, Ethan Hawke, Eli Roth, Dana Stevens, Scott Stewart, Jeremy Slater, Les Bohem, James Demonaco, Nissar Modi
3.0
3/5 Stars
Jason Blum has created an anthology of horror short stories to add to his ever-growing monopoly on the horror genre. Typically only specializing in films, it seems that for this compendium, Blum reached out to his film industry buddies and paid them a lot of money (maybe) to write short horror fiction. While some of the stories are wholly original and engrossing to read, the rest are poorly executed screenplays that do not translate well into short story form.
I think the fatal flaw in this anthology is that there are too many stories that are similar (cough cough, demon possession/murders cough cough) placed too closely together.
While I enjoyed this for my spring fluff/horror read, there was nothing to emotionally jar me or actually keep me up late at night like I was hoping it would.
Jason Blum has created an anthology of horror short stories to add to his ever-growing monopoly on the horror genre. Typically only specializing in films, it seems that for this compendium, Blum reached out to his film industry buddies and paid them a lot of money (maybe) to write short horror fiction. While some of the stories are wholly original and engrossing to read, the rest are poorly executed screenplays that do not translate well into short story form.
I think the fatal flaw in this anthology is that there are too many stories that are similar (cough cough, demon possession/murders cough cough) placed too closely together.
While I enjoyed this for my spring fluff/horror read, there was nothing to emotionally jar me or actually keep me up late at night like I was hoping it would.