This is my third Jerry Roth book, like with his other books the characters all well fleshed out and nuanced even in short form. My challenge with short stories is always wanting more or being left to assume what happened. In this collection we get creepy tales that give us everything you want in a horror anthology. I was impressed that the stories did not rely wholly on rote horror tropes but rather added a little edge and fear to short stories about relationships and real life scenarios. Even though the stories are short, it’s easy to quickly immerse in them and relate to the characters. A few of the stories have that Grimms feel where you can see something bad is coming and you’re screaming inside for the characters to wake up to it.
My favorites were the outright scarier ones like Always Say Goodbye, The Teddy Bear and Ice Cream Man.
Thanks to the author via Netgalley for access to this one. All opinions above are my own.
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