After the People Lights Have Gone Off
Ratings13
Average rating3.2
Short story collections are always really difficult to review - the nature of stories is that you will inevitably connect with some more than others, and this was definitely true of this collection for me.
The highlights for me were:
Doc's story - an interesting take on what happens if one of horror's monsters (in this case lycanthrope) gets bitten by a tick which goes on to bite someone else... The lack of agency here adds to the terror. 5/5
Welcome to the Reptile House - A budding tattooist practicing on dead bodies in the morgue gets more than they bargained for! A fun twist on a Vampire trope. 5/5
The Black Sleeve of Destiny - Compulsive kleptomania from a possessed hoody 4/5
Solve for X - Effectively torture porn. Gruesome and horrific, but probably not for everyone 4/5
Quite a few of the other stories fell flat for me unfortunately though, but that is the advantage of a collection - there are plenty to pick and choose from!
stunning wonderfully creepy collection, there were maybe one or two stories that were majorly overshadowed by how fantastic some of the others were but all in all i had a lot of fun reading these
Yea! Creepy short stories! My jam. Some of these landed better with me than others, but it's been too damn long since I had something so delightfully creepy.