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A review by dnemec
The Forsaken: Stories of Abandoned Places by Harvey Jacobs, D.L. Snell, Wally Runnels, J.W. Schnarr, Nick Cato, Michael Arruda, L.L. Soares, Norman Prentiss, Deborah Leblanc, Piers Anthony, Joe McKinney, Michael M. Hughes, James Whelan, Tobey Crockett, Peter Dudar, Colleen Wanglund, Rena Mason, Gene O'Neill, Michael C. Lea, Dennis Copelan, Mark Onspaugh, Lisa Morton
3.0
"Are you ready to visit the forsaken, to learn their secrets, to find out why?"
The Forsaken includes 22 stories of practically every place that can be abandoned, and some you didn't think could be. There is an abandoned factory with a bloody, mysterious past ("The Pressboard Factory"); an abandoned Mom & Pop corner store "(Hard Candy, Soft Centers"); an abandoned church complete with graveyard ("Mr. Churchmouse"); and an abandoned cult settlement in the desert ("High Desert"). There is even an abandoned section of The Great Wall of China ("Of Earth and Bone")!
I particularly favored "The Black Room" by Michael M. Hughes about an abandoned Army research facility with a creepy past beyond the classified biochemical warfare tests conducted there in the past. I also really enjoyed "Lullaby Land" by Mark Onspaugh, a tale of a dilapidated amusement park that isn't quite as abandoned as it appears.
I found most of these quite entertaining, although I must admit that I do have a fascination with abandoned places. As it says in the introduction: "Why is it empty? Better still, is it empty?" Hmmm...
The Forsaken includes 22 stories of practically every place that can be abandoned, and some you didn't think could be. There is an abandoned factory with a bloody, mysterious past ("The Pressboard Factory"); an abandoned Mom & Pop corner store "(Hard Candy, Soft Centers"); an abandoned church complete with graveyard ("Mr. Churchmouse"); and an abandoned cult settlement in the desert ("High Desert"). There is even an abandoned section of The Great Wall of China ("Of Earth and Bone")!
I particularly favored "The Black Room" by Michael M. Hughes about an abandoned Army research facility with a creepy past beyond the classified biochemical warfare tests conducted there in the past. I also really enjoyed "Lullaby Land" by Mark Onspaugh, a tale of a dilapidated amusement park that isn't quite as abandoned as it appears.
I found most of these quite entertaining, although I must admit that I do have a fascination with abandoned places. As it says in the introduction: "Why is it empty? Better still, is it empty?" Hmmm...