A review by shiningshield
Small Horrors: A Collection of Fifty Creepy Stories by Darcy Coates

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

2.0

Still unsure if I'm a short stories kinda person, or whether the collections I'm reading are simply mediocre. A lot of these felt like they would've scared me as a kid, but even then I was one of those brats who was fortunate enough to find a copy of Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark in my school library, and after seeing those horrifying illustrations at such a young age I'm not sure even little me would've found this collection particularly fear-inducing. 

I like Darcy Coates as an author, I think she's very good with atmosphere. But in the constrained format of a short story? Definitely not part of her skill set.