A review by emperorcupcake
Autumncrow by Cameron Chaney

4.0

"Follow me in"

brb changing my name to Autumn Crow. Yes, that is an actual character name in the book, and I desperately want more information about her! What would happen if she came back from the dead? Tell me more!

This was a short story collection where I enjoyed every story. I'm not even sure I could pick a favourite, they were all so evocative of the spooky season. Is it wrong I want to live in Autumncrow? "In Autumncrow, you didn't have to look back on your childhood memories of Halloween in sad remembrance." I mean, when you put it that way...

or "a world made of cobblestone idewalks, of redbrick houses and Tudor mansions, of gravestones and apple tres, of leaf-strewn roads that wound down valley hills, of cornfields and black cats and glow-in-the-dark paper skeletons." Does that not capture the very essence of Halloween, that feeling of wholesomeness that can so easily turn to scares, to danger? The palpable anticipation of it, like the very chill in the air? When I say this is a perfect Halloween read, I mean it. So glad I bought this one so I can read it every year!