A review by alexbelle33
There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried to Kill Her Neighbor's Baby: Scary Fairy Tales by Ludmilla Petrushevskaya

4.0

In all I really enjoyed this collection of creepy tales. Some were more skin crawling than others, and a few definitely fell short, but not enough for me to be entirely disappointed. What I really liked was that all of these tales came from countries around the world-like Russia and Africa most notable. I found this very refreshing because writing style and ways of presenting ideas was new and engaging. It was a change from the norm, and anyone who likes that would enjoy this book.

I did find myself preferring the shorter stories to the longer ones (some went on for about 20 pages!). The longer ones seemed to drag on with more detail, and while this can be good with some genres, I don't think it's entirely necessary for supposedly brief spooky tales. I've always found, especially with horror-less is more. Still it was only a few out of the bunch, and the ones that I did enjoy I still think about!