Review: Be careful what you wish for...
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 04 25, 2013
These days horror seems to equal slasher flicks and bloody, gruesome scenes filled with gore. Not here. This is good old-fashioned horror, reminiscent of "Twilight Zone"/"Alfred Hitchcock Presents"/"Tales from the Darkside" or the old King or Koontz novels (before King started doing gross-out for the sake of being gross).Be careful what you wish for, that's for sure, as the characters find out in this serial story. Each story has a different style/narrative voice, which is interesting. After the first two episodes, I wasn't actually sure I wanted to keep reading as they didn't seem to tie together and I thought maybe these were short stories in themselves and not parts of a bigger story. But, keep reading! Zabrisky has written a group of diverse, mostly very creepy characters in an intricately intertwined overarching story.When I finished I was a bit upset that part 8 is not the end -- with it all in this omnibus edition I thought it would be the whole story -- luckily part 9 is now out so I'm going to go read that now!