D. L. Scott

From the big C to the monster under the bed, the Shades of Fear anthology does indeed collect tales of fear in its many shades, offering word pictures and stories of dreads that many will recognize, enjoy, or maybe even be empowered by. Some endings are more final than others, as the reader progresses through multiple different terrors. Cool quotes begin each story, unsettling or resettling the reader. Future histories terrify, as in Laura Cowan’s Testament to Finer Things. But my favorite stories are surely rjo Herman’s with its intriguingly different take on the familiar, and Michael Mill’s deeply unsettling tattoo.

Shades of Fear isn’t the best anthology out there, but it’s a good, enjoyably long, haunting read in every best sense of the words.

Disclosure: I was given a copy and I offer my honest review.… (más)