Very strong collection of weird stories, particularly "20th Century Ghost" and "The Black Phone." Low on gore, high on well-written characters placed in vivid situations, reading this was like finding long lost Twilight Zone episodes.
I consider myself a huge fan of Joe Hill. I read his novel Heart Shaped Box, one of my absolute favorite stories now, first and immediately sought out everything he has written. This one didn't quite hit the spot for me and I'm not sure if it was because I seem to have a hard time with short stories...
A really entertaining collection of short stories that, while classified as horror, really seemed more like suspense with perhaps of a touch of the supernatural. None of the stories were really graphic, which is what I was expecting, so I was pleasantly surprised. Some of my favorite stories reall...
Read it. If you don't like horror, read it anyways. You wont be disappointed. "Pop Art" and "Black Phone" were my very favorites, and "Pop Art" isn't even a horror story.
This book took me a little longer to read than anthologies typically do because I wanted to savor it. I was really hoping that my enjoyment of Horns wasn't an isolated incident and that Joe Hill is really as good as that book indicates. He's not just as good as Horns, though, he's better. He really ...
An amazingly strong collection of stories. I love them because they all have actual plots, and some of them are particularly chilling. I hope that Hill continues to publish stories, as well as novels, he's just so good at it.
In his introduction, Christopher Golden (who, by the way, collaborated on The Complete Stephen King Universe: A Guide to the Worlds of Stephen King with Stanley Wiater, if you're interested) said that Joe Hill is a master of subtlety in the way that he tells stories. And it's true. His stories all h...
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