Review: The Taste of Fear is Out to Tempt You
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 07 24, 2013
Scratchers is the first in a series coming you way under the banner Taste of Fear.  This short story is lots of fun with some deadly results.  We start with the character Trenton Hughes whose life is going downhill fast.  His wife has left and in the arms of another man, doing God knows what with the guy who isn't him.  That sucks big eggs.  Trenton goes on a major drinking spree; it's almost painful to read about the quantities of alcohol he imbibes.  A bigger problem looms ahead, strange scratchings in the walls and then one night he finds out the source that threatens him and war is declared with the house as the battlefield.  Witness the man armed with vodka and JD and a hammer go to war with those he calls Scratchers.  No mercy is shown on either side.  Who's going to win?  Read it and find out.