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A review by dnemec
Dark Screams: Volume Ten by Wrath James White, Heather Herrman, Brian James Freeman, Marc Rains, Simon Clark, Lisa Tuttle, Richard Chizmar, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Clive Barker
3.0
Volume 10 of the Dark Screams series was fair, but by far not my favorite.
Bastion by Simon Clark was the first and longest, encompassing half the book. John Karroon wakes up in a bunker where boys aged 11-16 are in military uniforms and shooting liquid nitrogen at something called Flukes. All the boys around John seem to have no memory about their previous lives - where they were from, their families, their pets - yet John remembers everything. And he can't help but question everything occurring around him. The story was rather strange and I thought it would be my least favorite, but I found myself falling into the story and I couldn't stop reading it. Probably my favorite of the bunch.
The Woman in the Blue Dress by Heather Herrman was another that I liked quite a lot. Natalie is sitting alone at a restaurant when a strange woman named Cassasandra approaches her and begins speaking with her. Cassandra is remarkably familiar to her for some reason, but she can't put her finger on why. And now she wants something from Natalie...
The other stories were rather meh to me, but I thought those two were interesting.
Bastion by Simon Clark was the first and longest, encompassing half the book. John Karroon wakes up in a bunker where boys aged 11-16 are in military uniforms and shooting liquid nitrogen at something called Flukes. All the boys around John seem to have no memory about their previous lives - where they were from, their families, their pets - yet John remembers everything. And he can't help but question everything occurring around him. The story was rather strange and I thought it would be my least favorite, but I found myself falling into the story and I couldn't stop reading it. Probably my favorite of the bunch.
The Woman in the Blue Dress by Heather Herrman was another that I liked quite a lot. Natalie is sitting alone at a restaurant when a strange woman named Cassasandra approaches her and begins speaking with her. Cassandra is remarkably familiar to her for some reason, but she can't put her finger on why. And now she wants something from Natalie...
The other stories were rather meh to me, but I thought those two were interesting.