Review: Absolutely nice and creepy reading
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 11 20, 2012
Originally posted here:[...]Flashy Fiction is a very original anthology, with several very short stories which go from paranormal to horror; there are lots of different creatures: vampires, zombies and other weird characters like unicorns and teddy bears. The thing I liked about these stories is that there are always two on the same topic. The anthology has been written by two authors and they challenged each other to write a story on the same subject, but often the stories turned out in completely different ways!Some of the stories are pretty dark, others a little bit lighter and there are some mysterious and creepy. Among my favorites there are Fireflies, Pumpkin carver and Little devil, maybe not the creepiest, but by far the ones that hold a very deep meaning; especially Pumpkin carver, which obviously takes place during Halloween, a very sad and sweet story about a father and his love for his sons. All the stories are fun in their own way; there are killer teddy bears (I will never look at teddy bears in the same way), unicorns standing up for themselves and fighting their sad fate, Walmart people turning into vampires and all kind of zombies. Some stories made me laugh, some others made me wonder and others made me feel that... chill down the spine that you usually get when you read an horror story in the middle of the night at home alone (note to self: don't ever do that again).Another thing I like were the comments at the end of every story. Short and funny, they explained how the story was born or its meaning. It was like having a peek 'behind the curtains', to see how a book is created and they were also very helpful to understand some of the most cryptic stories.Overall, I have to admit that this anthology was pretty nice. Short, with different types of stories, a lovely reading for a rainy, dark and windy night, I mean, for a sunny day. I don't really like collections of stories, but it was good.My favourite quote:To the quiet ones, the trodden on, the kids in the hallThe wolves in sheep's clothing, fooling them all.