Review: Humor amidst the horror
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 10 3, 2011
Joshua Scribner has come up with another collection of short stories that, as the title suggests, are a little on the lighter side of his usual horror stories.  Most of them are humorous at some point, and of course, beyond the believable.My favorite is the first one, "Wish Limits" in which a man goes fishing and catches a fish that isn't a perch or any other fish known to him, but a silver fish with gold stripes running down its body.  As he lays the fish down and turns around, the fish speaks to him. Calls him a nasty name, too.  The man gets a wish, just one, from this odd fish, but there are limits to his wish.  What transpires is funny to the reader, but enough to wreck the nerves of the any seasoned fisherman.I'm glad that I read these stories with some humor attached, because the other stories by Joshua Scribner that I've read have been pure horror.  The rest of them run from creatures driving a car who have never driven before, in "Transformation" to the tale of a woman upset by a dog urinating on her property in "A Little Urine."  They are all short and can be read quickly.  They're fun, funny and some are a bit frightening.  And still free!The stories are followed by an excerpt (Chapter 6) from Mantis Coma, which is Book 2 in The Mantis Series.