A review by akmargie
The Chronicles of Harris Burdick: 14 Amazing Authors Tell the Tales by Chris Van Allsburg

4.0

I gave an average rating because like most short story collections I liked some stories more than others. They all had a dark and slightly sinister thread running through, some more heavy than others. Also being based on the illustrations they are, there was a heavy supernatural and fantasy motif. So much that I felt like many of the stories were very Bradbury-esque. (See Stephen King's "House on Maple Street" which features the Bradbury children.) My favorite stories were Jon Scieszka's "Under the Rug," full of his dastardly humor and M. T. Anderson's "Just Desert" which recalled for me Bradbury's Something Wicked This Way Comes. It's just as terrifying with it's hidden world underneath the real world.