Review: Spooky Tales For Night Time Reading
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 03 7, 2014
Every night I go to bed with a book. Lately I've been reading From Darkness by D R Gordon and it has sent chills up my spine. This collection of stories are finely tuned, edited down to just the most powerful elements and they yank you by your eyeballs and manifest an incredible amount of fear. Even with the scary ride that you get from each tale, you keep reading because you want to know how it all turns out.Gordon has a way of writing that is simple, and easy to manage. It's not overtly academic, but that's not a bad thing, it's a great thing. A real sense of terror overcomes you as you read through the variety of stories that will haunt you long after the fact. In The Woods, for example, is one that is still fresh on my mind, with a focus on the deeper meaning and the development of the mind, rather than just blood and gore, Gordon creates a lavish display of horror writing in a very cool collection.I like stories instead of novels sometimes, and this is a great little book of horror. You will enjoy it, as it shares the same type of branches that you would expect from Lovecraft, and Asimov. I liked it, and recommend it.