Octoberland

Rating:
Summary: More disturbing than scary
Review: Basically, this book is an athology of horror stories that have October or Halloween as their theme. The contributing authors include Jeffrey Thomas, William P. Simmons, Scott Thomas, Charlee Jacob, and Stephen Mark Rainey. To me, all of this implied that there would be a bunch of nice, scary Halloween stories in the book. Ummm...nope, not really. I found most of the stories to be more disturbing than scary. And not Jack Ketchum or Edward Lee disturbing where you are unnerved for quite a while afterwards. Don't get me wrong, there were a few good stories in here (I thought): "Post #153" by Jeffrey Thomas, in which a VFW is surrounded by some familiar apparitions was quite chilling. I also enjoyed "The Halloween Boy" by William P. Simmons, which was about a very strange little boy --- though I would say that it was far more haunting than scary. All in all, though I enjoyed some of the stories in this anthology, I found it overall to be a rather disappointing read.

Rating:
Summary: More disturbing than scary
Review: Basically, this book is an athology of horror stories that have October or Halloween as their theme. The contributing authors include Jeffrey Thomas, William P. Simmons, Scott Thomas, Charlee Jacob, and Stephen Mark Rainey. To me, all of this implied that there would be a bunch of nice, scary Halloween stories in the book. Ummm...nope, not really. I found most of the stories to be more disturbing than scary. And not Jack Ketchum or Edward Lee disturbing where you are unnerved for quite a while afterwards. Don't get me wrong, there were a few good stories in here (I thought): "Post #153" by Jeffrey Thomas, in which a VFW is surrounded by some familiar apparitions was quite chilling. I also enjoyed "The Halloween Boy" by William P. Simmons, which was about a very strange little boy --- though I would say that it was far more haunting than scary. All in all, though I enjoyed some of the stories in this anthology, I found it overall to be a rather disappointing read.