Stories for Nighttime and Some for the Day

I admit that I read a great many of these stories before finally breaking down and inter-library loaning this title. It was so worth it. These stories are like a punch to the side of the head. Sometimes they are so strange, they put the reader in that uncomfortable place in which there is no way of knowing which way the story will unfold. Honestly, I loved it. Loory takes inanimate objects and makes them magical and scary (a swimming pool, a balloon, a rope). Of course, it's never really the object that is scary...it's the human's reaction to it. If I HAD to pick a favorite, it would be The Book. But Girl in a Storm and many others would be a close second. This is a great collection. I recommend reading one or two stories a day with a giant pause in between for reflection.