It has been quite a while since I had read the horror genre. Recently, all I have been reading are mystery thrillers and whodunits. Well, I had been coming across some good ones; hence a long break from the horror genre. Recently, I decided to venture back to the genre and came across this book on the go. I received a free copy of this book via Booksprout and am voluntarily leaving a review.
The book is a set of 30 horror short stories. There are stories of a disturbing YouTube ad, a glitch in Minecraft, a postman supposedly having to deliver letters to the dead, the camera that shows your last photograph, a strange behaving dog, a headless jogger, a camera getting hacked, a garden hose that keeps growing, and creepy encounters in the motel, grocery store, mail, suburb, cursed house, etc.
I would not say that all the stories are horror in nature. The right word would be creepy. While the stories were not scary, it was creepy. I liked the ideas that the writer had in these stories. The read was a quick one and the stories were very short, the longest being around 10 pages long. While some of the stories were just normal read; most others were interesting. Some of them did creep me out. I like how some stories involved technology being used as a medium for horror. The language was easy enough. I felt that a few stories were too short to wrap my head into it. Having said that, the good ones were crazy enough too. One of my favorite stories was what a security encountered in a grocery store during his night shift. I was able to complete the book in a few hours which was very quick enough. Even though the stories were good enough, most of them did not linger in my mind too much. It might be my fault as I am not accustomed to reading many short stories in English.
To sum it up, a quick and creepy read that might interest horror seekers. This might not scare you, but might creep you out.
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