Review: Another Great Collection and Well Worth the Price
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 02 18, 2012
Having read Volume One, the deciding factor that made me choose which volume I was going to read next in the One Buck Horror anthology series was, quite honestly, the cover. I absolutely love the cover for Volume Four. The ghoul coming through the ebook reader and reaching for the reader (along with the drops of blood on the ebook reader screen) is just cool and absolutely appropriate for the concept behind One Buck Horror.As far as the quality of the stories included in Volume Four, I was more pleased overall with this volume than I was with Volume One. My main problem with Volume One had been the endings of the stories, but Volume Four delivered endings more to my liking and left me more satisfied as a reader.HANAL PIXAN:  This is a fun and shorter story to read. I especially enjoyed the tale which the Grandfather tells his grandsons about the old lady, her cat, and the five kids. The end of this story also has a nice twisty ending.THERIDIA:  This is probably my favorite story from this volume. The setting of the Old West was a nice change of pace. And the story is phenomenol and not what I was at all expecting the character Theridia to turn out to be. Without giving anything away, let's just say that she turns out to be something much worse and scarier than I first assumed she was while reading the story. My only complaint about this story is that the ending didn't live up to the rest of the story and just seemed to fizzle out.WALTER'S FRIENDS:  This was an interesting and good story with a unique plot. But I think that too much information was crammed into the short story form. This story would be much better if it was in a longer format, allowing the author to fully explore the character Walter, his "friends," and the eventual outcome of Walter.BAYANI'S PROMISE:  This was an exciting and fast-paced story, and probably my second favorite from the collection. The author does a wonderful job of making the reader feel like they are a part of the action as the girl Bayani rushes to get home before dark and what befalls her when she doesn't.IN THE EYE OF THE BEHOLDER:  I have mixed emotions about this story. I think that it had the potential to be a good story if character and plot hadn't been sacrificed for brevity and an artsy form, which left some details unclear. I guess it is just my personal dislike of stories written in this manner.Overall, again, I enjoyed One Buck Horror Volume Four more than Volume One, and I was much more satisfied with the stories from this volume as well. Plus, the cover is just awesome.