Review: Dark humor
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 07 23, 2011
Ending at 80%, this collection has 320 locations, filled with nine very short but entertaining stories. As the title suggests, these stories are lighter, some even pretty funny, all with a certain cleverness and with a nice touch of the paranormal or supernatural.The stories included here:Wish Limits - A man encounters a talking and wish-granting fish.Portals - A psychic medium's house becomes a portal for different spirits.The Depths - What is waiting for you to draw your last breath when your spirit is destined for hell?Donation - Some mysterious people donate a large sum of money to a website devoted to horror writers.Transformation - Tooka and Brady are liberated and transformed into humans.Older Women - Tony thinks older women are magically delicious.Flow - Nola is constipated, but from what?A Little Urine - Opal is determined to get that dog who does his piss rounds on her yard.The Next Monster - We see story characters persist and demand their own story.I enjoyed all these stories, especially Portals, Donation, and A Little Urine; Transformation got a good chuckle out of me, too. And I guess The Next Monster was probably the most tongue in cheek. Really, all these shorts were well-written, amusing, smart, and nicely odd.