A review by chaosmavin
Broken Monsters by Lauren Beukes

3.0

NYT put out a map around Halloween about the best horror stories around the US. I look at the ones from all the States I had lived in and have a few on hold but this one came up first and it is Illinois submission. I thought it sounded intriguing because it was a serial killer who created these art pieces with his victims by merging them with animals...it definitely sounded more intriguing then it was and it wasn't scary at all...it was creepy but also like had this weird subplot about the killer opening a portal to another dimension called the dream which was what caused him to kill people. There was some cool literary devices with embedding social media responses to things happening in the story. I feel like this would have been an awesome X-files episode but if you're looking for a heart racing scary story like the Shining this is definitely not it.