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A review by hsienhsien27
Creep House by Andersen Prunty
3.0
Mr. Prunty is that writer that I would be scared to meet in real life. That sounds a little mean, but it's my true feelings. (Did I write this before?) I read his The Warm Glow of Happy Homes months ago. I don't remember exactly when, but I enjoyed it. It was a novella, it was short, gory, and thrilling. Now here's a short story collection. It's completely different.
"The feeling of contentment would always be followed by the world crumbling beneath her feet."
I wonder if Prunty is a huge fan of old horror movies. Because while reading this, I played the soundtracks, did the jump scare effects whenever my eyes came across the violence, and the innocent little girl voices. "Hey? What is that?" *Gets murdered.*
But like a lot of people stated, the stories were wrapped up a bit too fast. "Oh hey! Look I killed someone! Oh no someone punched me. But I survived. And I walked home like nothing happened. The end." Just kidding that didn't actually happen. But I can probably say the longer short stories were better.
"The only mystery they had left her with was the mystery of who they were and what they were like. She didn't expect them to be anything but mystery."
And as much as I liked the first few short stories, it took a grand fall towards the end for me. I'm not sure if it was because I got tired of it or I was just getting really grossed out by it. Yeah, I said it. I got grossed out by a bizzaro book. The pedophilia, the fornication, the sacks of blood, it was just a little too much. There's horror and grossness, but this reminded me of those people who have weird fascinations with snuff films and watching people die with pleasure. I guess, I just wasn't in the mood for this one. I didn't expect this to be this gross though.
"Really, it was nothing. Just a bad dream. Just a nightmare. And everybody knows nightmares end when we open our eyes."
I guess I was too wimpy for this one. But I was reading this in the middle of the night and I cringed so bad at the last two stories. But eventually I got used to it and was like "meh," for the rest. I did get some weird dreams though.
Rating: 2.5/5
Originally posted here:https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=1056108657346627928#allposts/postNum=1
"The feeling of contentment would always be followed by the world crumbling beneath her feet."
I wonder if Prunty is a huge fan of old horror movies. Because while reading this, I played the soundtracks, did the jump scare effects whenever my eyes came across the violence, and the innocent little girl voices. "Hey? What is that?" *Gets murdered.*
But like a lot of people stated, the stories were wrapped up a bit too fast. "Oh hey! Look I killed someone! Oh no someone punched me. But I survived. And I walked home like nothing happened. The end." Just kidding that didn't actually happen. But I can probably say the longer short stories were better.
"The only mystery they had left her with was the mystery of who they were and what they were like. She didn't expect them to be anything but mystery."
And as much as I liked the first few short stories, it took a grand fall towards the end for me. I'm not sure if it was because I got tired of it or I was just getting really grossed out by it. Yeah, I said it. I got grossed out by a bizzaro book. The pedophilia, the fornication, the sacks of blood, it was just a little too much. There's horror and grossness, but this reminded me of those people who have weird fascinations with snuff films and watching people die with pleasure. I guess, I just wasn't in the mood for this one. I didn't expect this to be this gross though.
"Really, it was nothing. Just a bad dream. Just a nightmare. And everybody knows nightmares end when we open our eyes."
I guess I was too wimpy for this one. But I was reading this in the middle of the night and I cringed so bad at the last two stories. But eventually I got used to it and was like "meh," for the rest. I did get some weird dreams though.
Rating: 2.5/5
Originally posted here:https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=1056108657346627928#allposts/postNum=1