Had to pick it up to read the short story that is a "sequel" to [b:Let the Right One In|943402|Let the Right One In|John Ajvide Lindqvist|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1327893384s/943402.jpg|928338]. Turns out it was nothing very interesting, and like the shorter stories in this collection one of the weakest in it. The more room Lindqvist takes to build his stories, to slowly increase the anxiety and horror and dread, the better they turn out.

My favorites are two almost novella length stories, Tindalos and Final Processing. The former brings in the Hounds of Tindalos from the Cthulhu mythos. A woman came to the attention of such an entity due to a violent childhood incident, and it spends the next three decades searching for her through time and space, finally locating her as she is in the midst of a collapsing marriage (horror finds horror). The resolution is violent, surprising and satisfying.

Final Processing is a sequel to [b:Handling the Undead|4328472|Handling the Undead|John Ajvide Lindqvist|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1328152386s/4328472.jpg|2828796], and resolves the ultimate fate of the "reliving". The ending is a bit problematic, because no way would the location of this resolution be so casually and incompetently guarded, and the nature of the mysterious Stranger must have gotten lost in translation somehow, but up until that point it is an intriguing story.

Other stories of note are The Border, in which a woman discovers that she isn't nearly so human as she was raised to believe, Equinox, in which a lonely woman discovers a dead body in strange circumstances and finds that it wasn't really the best choice to unburden her worries and problems to, and Eternal/Love, in which a near-drowning victim believes he has found the secret to eternal life and wants to share it with his wife. Perhaps you will not be surprised to hear that that does not end well.

That leaves six remaining stories that I wouldn't really recommend bothering with, however they're all fairly short so at least you won't spend much time on them if you do. ( )

Another amazing book from him. *swoons* *gushes* Fantastic array of short stories (mostly horror). The title story (and the follow-up to "Let the Right One In") was fabulous, but my two favorites were "The Border" (shudder) and "Majken" (cackles) ( )

A collection of weird tales, some of which I liked and some of which I have to admit went over my head. I did not care for the follow-up to Handling the Undead, which brings the story into a new paranormal realm that spoils the down-to-earth feel of the novel (of which it was meant to be a part, but was left out for reasons of length, and I think it was for the best.) However, the title story is very moving and makes for a sweet epilogue to Let the Right One In. ( )

Like most books of short stories, some stories were better than others. Being Lindqvist, you never know what the next story holds. Though I enjoyed pretty much all the stories, I particularly enjoyed "Equinox" and "Let The Old Dreams Die". The only story I didn't like was "To Hold You While The Music Plays" which is perfectly normally according to the afterwards - "They've all had their own favourite. Except "To Hold You While The Music Plays". Nobody likes that one, apart from me." - I normally don't bother with the Afterwards but I love Lindqvist and his afterwards to this book was informal and fun :)

I loved having sequels to Let The Right One In and Handling The Undead. LTROI is my favourite Lindqvist story and I'm so happy to discover what really happened to Oskar and Eli :) ( )

John Ajvide Lindqvist's Let the Old Dreams Die: Stories collects various short stories, though two serve as direct sequels to his books. "Final Processing" follows up Handling the Undead while "Let the Old Dreams Die", the titular story, serves as as epilogue to Let the Right One In. The others, though unconnected, feature Lindqvist's authorial voice and are sure to entertain readers. As for the titular story, it focuses primarily on secondary characters from the novel (which the book itself also privileged), but offers the same tone and clears up some of the ambiguities from the book (that were later amplified in the American film adaptation). This book is worth reading for fans and it's nice to have more from the Let the Right One In storyline. ( )