Thirteen Storeys

Gruesome with a purpose. Heavy on the social commentary, heavy in general. There are some quality creeps given, but the pacing is tricky. You spend 325 pages of a 387 page book getting to know the characters and to a certain extent the phenomena that will feature in the denouement. There's a limited amount of interaction between them. This is essentially 12 short ghost stories drawn together by the thirteenth chapter. I think it pulled it off, but I can see how it might not work for horror readers depending on what they thought they were getting based on the cover/synopsis. Think more creeping dread rather than pulse-pounding slasher. ⚠️gore, cannibalism