Shadow House and Other Strange Tales

Shadow House, the first short story opens the collection and it is about a group of four female friends going on a beach house vacation. While en route one of them tells the tale of a break-in, of another four female friends just like them who torture an old man and perform some kind of ritual on him. But that was fifty years ago, what nonsense they should worry about that now. They are just gonna enjoy their vacation! It was a good story and has a wicked ending.

The other short story, Halloween Nightmare, shows us a woman who wakes up somewhere in a playground with absolutely no idea how she got there. I found this one a little frustrating at times, but I can't deny the incredible tension it builds up throughout.

The rest of the collection is made up of six flash fiction stories, and I enjoyed them all. The author shows a bit of a gift with dark comedy here.

A drug runner encounters a time traveler, a group of friends goes after vampires with a little twist as to how a police detective shows up at a crime scene of a serial killer, two friends find an envelope that just shows up one day in their home with only one word on it, a man leaves a bar stating he has run out of time and must hurry, and finally a woman has some very dark thoughts or does she? There was a lot of creativity here.

I found this to be a pretty solid horror short collection that is worth a look.