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A review by zraitor
Horror Library, Volume 1 by Jeff Cercone, Vincent VanAllen, R.J. Cavender, Ginger Hamilton, Dawna Bailey
3.0
–>I received a free copy of this in exchange for an honest review.<–
Full of cutting off limbs, rape, and torture this collection is incredibly edgy. It did grow tiresome reading some of the stories that seemingly were written to shock and awe me instead of telling a good story.
Other stories were simply too short to really have any impact or meaning and others had promising starts only to deliver a done a million times before outcome.
The stories I liked best were 'Orrin's Axe': Just a very creepy tale that makes you unsure the whole time, 'Little Black Box': Basically for the same reason and keeps you reading to see the outcome., 'Lemonhead': A drug-fueled revenge tale that stands out compared to the others, and 'The Puppet Show': Weird, gross, and imaginative and while I'm not sure I agree with ending it's just so good a story I didn't care.
A few other stories reach "okay" but were just so confusing that while I liked parts of them I found them frustrating to read like 'The Remembering Country' and 'Las Brujas Del Rio Verde'.
This collection to me overall was uneven and mixed in quality but certainly not terrible in any way. I could see a lot of potential in the stories but most of them needed a bit more of something.
Full of cutting off limbs, rape, and torture this collection is incredibly edgy. It did grow tiresome reading some of the stories that seemingly were written to shock and awe me instead of telling a good story.
Other stories were simply too short to really have any impact or meaning and others had promising starts only to deliver a done a million times before outcome.
The stories I liked best were 'Orrin's Axe': Just a very creepy tale that makes you unsure the whole time, 'Little Black Box': Basically for the same reason and keeps you reading to see the outcome., 'Lemonhead': A drug-fueled revenge tale that stands out compared to the others, and 'The Puppet Show': Weird, gross, and imaginative and while I'm not sure I agree with ending it's just so good a story I didn't care.
A few other stories reach "okay" but were just so confusing that while I liked parts of them I found them frustrating to read like 'The Remembering Country' and 'Las Brujas Del Rio Verde'.
This collection to me overall was uneven and mixed in quality but certainly not terrible in any way. I could see a lot of potential in the stories but most of them needed a bit more of something.