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A review by pushingdessy
Ankle Snatcher by Grady Hendrix
dark
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.5
🛏️ Grady Hendrix released a new spooky short story, and of course I had to read it.
📝 “Ankle snatcher” is part of the collection Creature Feature for Amazon. In a departure from Gradix’s usual, this one focuses on a man, Marcus. When he finally gets the courage to invite a coworker out, he ends up confessing that his father murdered his mother when he was just six years old. The last thing his father told him was that the one responsible was the boogeyman under the bed. Even though it was clearly not true, a desperate man’s attempt to justify a femicide, Marcus was left with a life-long terror of getting up in the dark. Until his date disappears under the bed, and Marcus questions everything he believed in.
What a chilling little story! Who hasn’t checked under their beds before climbing in, or ran and jumped as they came back from the bathroom in the dark? Hendrix took that fear and crafted a nightmarish, frantic scene. On top of that, he added a glimmer of hope only to snuff it out, which made for an unresolved ending - and all the more frightening for it.
This was very, very short, so don’t ask more from it than what it can give you! But it was still a nice spooky bite if that’s you’re in the mood for.
📝 “Ankle snatcher” is part of the collection Creature Feature for Amazon. In a departure from Gradix’s usual, this one focuses on a man, Marcus. When he finally gets the courage to invite a coworker out, he ends up confessing that his father murdered his mother when he was just six years old. The last thing his father told him was that the one responsible was the boogeyman under the bed. Even though it was clearly not true, a desperate man’s attempt to justify a femicide, Marcus was left with a life-long terror of getting up in the dark. Until his date disappears under the bed, and Marcus questions everything he believed in.
What a chilling little story! Who hasn’t checked under their beds before climbing in, or ran and jumped as they came back from the bathroom in the dark? Hendrix took that fear and crafted a nightmarish, frantic scene. On top of that, he added a glimmer of hope only to snuff it out, which made for an unresolved ending - and all the more frightening for it.
This was very, very short, so don’t ask more from it than what it can give you! But it was still a nice spooky bite if that’s you’re in the mood for.