Thank you to the author, publishers Titan Books and NetGalley UK for access to this as an advance reader’s ebook. This is an honest and voluntary review.

 

A collection of five novellas about the creatures that lurk in the dark places.

 

I’m left a little bit disappointed by this collection. In the author notes they explain that the first four stories have previously been published in magazines and represent older works. The restrained word count of magazine writing may be why I felt each of the endings were disappointing, leaving me with a sense of ‘so what’.

 

The last novella, the new to publication one is the best of the bunch. It’s like if Stephen King’s The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon crossed with the Texas Chainsaw Massacre. The ending was still disappointing though, throwing in a did it/didn’t it happen moment that spoiled an otherwise decent thriller for me.