Review: Every one in this collection is a hit
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 02 15, 2012
There's no a single bad story in this bunch.  In fact, they're all VERY good and I feel that this contains the best of the Samantha Moon short stories so far (I haven't read Christmas Moon yet, but that's a novella so that doesn't count as a short story in my book!).Vampire Blues--This seems to take place after Moon Child.  Samantha gets a call from an elderly lady who feels her husband has been cheating on her.  Samantha hates cheating spouse cases but there's something about the old woman that tugs at her undead heart strings and she can't help but say yes to her.  Samantha thinks this is going to be a quick and easy gig so she can get back to a bigger case that she's working on with Detective Sherbet (possibly a case in the upcoming Vampire Dawn? Time will tell).  In her haste Samantha jumps to conclusions but when the case reaches its solution she'll find something she never saw coming a mile away..even with her psychic hunches.Nightmares--A young woman is plagued by vicious nightmares.  Her work is affected, her personal life is affected..she's desperate..until she finds a very old book, a very rare book.  Will the book help her fend off what she thinks is a psychic vampire? With the help of the author, who's been dead for 50 years, she may be able to rid herself of this torment once and for all.Soul Train--a young boy hears a train clear as day on a nightly basis.  Problem is, he's the only one who can hear it as the train tracks close to his home haven't been in use for many many years.  Bent on proving that the train IS real, that he ISN'T crazy he takes off one night to get some evidence of the train.  On his trek he'll get some advice from a mysterious old homeless man..'go home'.  Will he listen?Dracula's Guest--This one really shows off Rain's diversity.  This seems like prose you would find in a Bram  Stoker era novel.  An Englishman decides to leave his driver and carriage behind as he investigates what the driver superstitiously refers to as a haunted and abandoned village.  The driver is even more unsettled that it's supposedly one of the most haunted nights of the year.  Will the trip through the woods and down the abandoned road satisfy the man's curiosity or will he find more than he's bargaining for?Easily the best of JR Rain's short story compilations!