pamelarope 's review for:

Scary Stories: A Tribute To Terror by Shane Hunt, Curt Tuckfield

1.0

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Oh, my. At least the author's heart was in the right place. I identify with his obsession with the Scary Stories books and his desire for more. Unfortunately, this book doesn't hold a candle to the original. The stories, although a few had potential, are amateur at best and awkwardly written. They sound like something I would have attempted to write in fifth grade. The originals at least were based off of urban legends and folklore. Most of the stories in this book don't even make a lot of sense. The original stories had a meaning to them, usually an innocent person gets caught up in strange circumstances, or a guilty person gets their just desserts. The author seemed to just want to tell odd stories with random twists at the end, such as the story about the girl getting attacked while she was sleeping and then the doctors finding sewing needles in her body. Why sewing needles? This was such a disappointment to me. Go read Half Minute Horrors for a true horror story fix.