Ankle Snatcher

This is story 2 of Amazon's short story collection Creature Feature. I love that these releases include the kindle and the audible version for each. 
I thought this was a very interesting way to open up a story and give out someone's traumatic past. Because it's a short story, that launches the story into action immediately, making the horrific pace breakneck. I really thought this was a great take on the boogeyman, and as creepy as it was, I would have read a full novel of this. The ending was losing me a bit with its almost boogeyman-hunters take, but the description of the creature itself was too good. 
This one again mentions COVID without going into it, so I'm guessing they wrote these during the pandemic? 
Personally a 5/5*, I'd love to nail some creepy descriptors this well. 

This was an interesting take on the idea of the boogeyman. Clean prose, good story, well thought out characters and just a great little story. Grady is continuously consistent and original with his writing. He's funny, witty, and writes humans and their relationships very well. A great, short read during your lunch break or during bath time.

I wanted to like this more than I did. There was a lot of hype behind this considering it's only like 28 pages. It felt like this was a teaser for a new book more than a complete short story.

The premise is that a guy knows that monsters live under his (and sometimes others') beds but apparently does nothing about it? Like, he fully believes it but doesn't think to maybe sleep with a mattress on the ground or keep lights on? C'mon, man...

Part of the Creature Feature Collection from Amazon.

This one was just okay for me. I've never read anything by this author before so it was a good intro to his writing, however it felt unfinished. I get its a short story but there was very little build up and it ended so abruptly, so felt quite unsatisfying.

I remember my grandmother reading me James Howe's “There's a Monster Under My Bed” as a youngster, and for whatever reason, the blurb on of this book immediately made me think that it was going to be a more “adult” version of that short.

This is a short, short, story about a young man who grew up believing his mother was murdered by a boogeyman that lives beneath the bed because his father told him so.

I was on board for the first page or two, but soon fell out with the quick relationship banter, gross-out attempts, and the boogeyman-under-the-bed bit. There might be something to the story if it was fleshed out a bit more, but there was just not enough inherent backstory to really play up that fear of a monster under the bed.