Review: It was a challenge to finish
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 11 30, 2012
I bought this for 99 cents based on the 4 and 5 star reviews and am sorry I bought it. If it were free, maybe I would have read a couple stories and tossed it aside. So let me try to help future readers like me. The "Horror Challenge" is that each story is based loosely on one or two words given to the authors. So if they were given the word "Dump", then they write a 'scary story' which somehow incorporates a "Dump" or being "Dumped" or whatever. I don't hate that idea but lets go further.The word "Horror" does not apply at all. None of the stories will keep you up at night because they are all pretty silly and/or fantastic. They are not even close to "Tales from the Crypt". The content is "horrific" maybe because it involves death and killing and dismembering and the like, but the way it happens is so fantastic that it won't rattle you at all. Some people will like (and have liked - see the other reviews) the silly/amusing concepts but I think it gets old pretty fast. Anyone could write like this. For example, say you give me the word "Train", so I write the story about Bob the commuter who lives in NYC and runs to catch the train but he misses it along with 5 other people. Strangely another train comes along, its named the Shredder and afunny conductor lets them on the train. But everytime someone gets off the train, the doors become like teeth and tear the person apart. Poor commuters. I guess they should have not been late.I'd love to give this one star but the stories do move along reasonably quickly and some of the ideas are creative although silly. I wont be taking any more horror challenges.