Review: dark and disturbing
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 04 1, 2012
I first discovered Cummings in a Scott Nicholson collection of short dark horror stories.  I liked his morgue story so much that I decided to see what else he had to offer in one of his own collections.Deviance is a collection of very disturbing and very creative short dark horror stories.  They're mostly chilling without being over the top in terms of gore and shock value which I found to be a refreshing change of pace.  A lot of writers in this genre tend to lean too much on shock value in order to make up for thin stories.  That's not the case with this collection.  The atmosphere and deranged goings on serve as a dismal backdrop for the characters and how they react to the sick twisted world they inhabit.Very good stuff.