Zraitor
There is no theme, rhyme, or reason to this collection of horror stories, just a huge variety of tales from different times and settings thrown together. I enjoyed it a lot and read a few gems that I never came across before.
The only story I outright hated was Ghost of Towneley Towers by Seabury Quinn. When you read older stuff, you know it's gonna have problematic elements, of course, but this one made me outright cringe with how outdated it was, and it had nothing imaginative or interesting to make up for dealing with it. Just an awful, awful story.
Everything else was a lot of fun, and I'm glad I picked this one up. These megapacks are a good deal for the money, and it feels silly reviewing something that costs 99 cents because it was definitely worth that. If you like older horror, check it out; it might have stories you've never seen before mixed in along with the familiar authors.
There is no theme, rhyme, or reason to this collection of horror stories, just a huge variety of tales from different times and settings thrown together. I enjoyed it a lot and read a few gems that I never came across before.
The only story I outright hated was Ghost of Towneley Towers by Seabury Quinn. When you read older stuff, you know it's gonna have problematic elements, of course, but this one made me outright cringe with how outdated it was, and it had nothing imaginative or interesting to make up for dealing with it. Just an awful, awful story.
Everything else was a lot of fun, and I'm glad I picked this one up. These megapacks are a good deal for the money, and it feels silly reviewing something that costs 99 cents because it was definitely worth that. If you like older horror, check it out; it might have stories you've never seen before mixed in along with the familiar authors.
This is a good to great collection of dark fiction stories showing where humanity is headed. All the topics in the stories were spot on, and you can see everything explored is basically already happening around us.
There weren't any outright terrible stories, but a few definitely fizzled out and weren't as strong as the others. That is the nature of these huge collections, though, and I truly enjoyed most of them.
The stories include lots of robots going wrong as you'd expect, some wonderfully uncomfortable racism and genetic themes are explored, and they hit pretty hard, and of course, end-stage capitalism doing its destructive best to ruin our lives. Almost anything you can think of was brought up in the collection's twenty-nine tales.
Finally, the narrator was great and brought the stories to life with a variety of voices and accents. I was really impressed by them
This is a good to great collection of dark fiction stories showing where humanity is headed. All the topics in the stories were spot on, and you can see everything explored is basically already happening around us.
There weren't any outright terrible stories, but a few definitely fizzled out and weren't as strong as the others. That is the nature of these huge collections, though, and I truly enjoyed most of them.
The stories include lots of robots going wrong as you'd expect, some wonderfully uncomfortable racism and genetic themes are explored, and they hit pretty hard, and of course, end-stage capitalism doing its destructive best to ruin our lives. Almost anything you can think of was brought up in the collection's twenty-nine tales.
Finally, the narrator was great and brought the stories to life with a variety of voices and accents. I was really impressed by them