Tales from the Black Meadow

This novella is a collection of stories, poems, songs, and folklore about The Black Meadow and the weird events that happen there - fiction presented as fact. I fully expected to love this, and I did love the format of it, but the writing was just a bit dull and simplistic and there wasn't enough variation between the pieces to allow the reader to believe that they'd all been written by different people at different times.

This was a lot of fun - the introduction led me to expect a little more “found documents” frame tale, and it would have been nice to have that. But the tales and songs themselves are effectively weird and intriguing that I'm not disappointed in this book. If you like new takes on fairy tale and fable-type stories, check this out!

Creepy things in wells
spooky stuff lurking in fields
shuffle and repeat.