Chris Lee

A short, excellent book!
Yes. Birds do start attacking people, but the real horror is linking nature and destruction around real war and sieges.

A truly unsettling experience.

4/5

a fantastic murder mystery with a twist that will question your morals.

Quick thoughts: What can I say. A collection of some of the finest horror shorts I have read. The wide range of genres and excellent story telling will have you devouring each one.

Here are all the individual updates:

Story 1 of 20: “Jerusalem's Lot” - What a fun, brooding, spooky tale featuring a family home and a town with a dark past. LOVED the letter writing perspective and the church sequences. (⭐⭐⭐⭐)

Story 2 of 20: “Graveyard Shift” - A deceptively fun story that quite literally creeps up on you at the end. Stay out of the basement!

Was it just me, or would you guys have checked you know where first?

Knowing that the book is a classic really hinders my review in a way. About halfway through the Maltese Falcon i was could not help but think about why its considered so great. The book has unlikable and scummy characters who are hard to root for and as i neared the last few pages became even more disappointed. Maybe the film is better and allows for more character development but the old detective story is just plain bland. We have had several decades of similarly paced books based on detectives and maybe this was groundbreaking at the time. I just did not have a great time with it in the present.