Review: The third story is amazing.
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 05 5, 2013
Review from the wife.Although Mask of the Macabre follows the same theme and characters as Ballet of the Bones, she enjoyed Mask much more. She said the third story, about the photographer was atmospheric and poignant, and the connections were far subtler. She said Haynes' written tone worked well to build the atmosphere and amplify the horror, beyond simply describing bursts of violence.She said she had the strong urge to reread Poe after she put it down, just because it was fairly short, but whet her appetite for the formal eeriness of industrial-revolution era society. She wished there'd been a bit more to this collection, because it went by so fast!