Ratings11
Average rating3.2
A chilling short story collection by the Bram Stoker Award-winner author, including stories set in the world of A Head Full of Ghosts and Disappearance at Devil's Rock. A thrilling new collection from the award-winning author of A Head Full of Ghosts and The Cabin at the End of the World bringing his short stories to the UK for the first time. Unearth nineteen tales of suspense and literary horror, including a new story from the world of A Head Full of Ghosts, that offer a terrifying glimpse into Tremblay's fantastically fertile imagination. See a school class haunted by a life-changing video, the forces at work on four men fleeing the pawn shop they robbed at gunpoint, the meth addict kidnapping her daughter as the town is terrorized by a giant monster, or the woman facing all the ghosts who scare her most in a Choose Your Own Adventure. Intricate, humane, ingenious and chilling, embrace the Growing Things.
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2½ stars.
Maybe I expected too much; I expected more balls to the walls horror as in some of his novels, but it was mostly a lot of interesting ideas with VERY ambiguous endings. I didn't really get a lot of the endings - or, as a matter of fact, a lot of what the stories wanted to say.
There was only one or two stories I really liked.
My review in the Washington Independent Review of Books:
http://www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/bookreview/growing-things-and-other-stories