Review: grotesquely awesome!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 10 16, 2013
Sinister: woah, now that's a way to start. Do you ever consider what you bring back from holiday? The freakiness has begun.Transformed: The Kindness of Strangers: this little tale left me feeling a little sick to my stomach, no gore was needed for this, just the "kindness of strangers". How people get their fun is quite sickening sometimes and BSM manages to tie it all down neatly.Saving the System: I am wondering what berry or mushroom BSM ate before she wrote this one! It's a true morality tale with a horror/sci-fi? twist.Skins of our Fathers:  A short little story of a lonely hairless thing in the forest. Don't trust anyone is the lesson here. Was he really saved? A little on the weird side, but entertaining.Cursed: A cursed chair, not so spooky you might think. This gripped me and left me never wanting to sit down on anything but plastic again! A centuries long tale of possession, the last paragraph gave you goosebumps.Dying in L.A.: BSM does not need horror or gore scenes to put the heebie-jeebies in your soul. Her ability to switch characters is brilliant, as you follow the story of "Rulebook" and his search.The Impossible: when you go mad why is it only you that knows it? Or was he?  Freakishly awesome.Hell & Brimstone: A short tale of discovery, love, murder? and woe... How BSM manages to pack so much story, emotion and life into such a little space astounds me! The discovery and initial disbelief journey of a young women with the ability to start fires.... OH I hear you cry that's been done before... yes, but NOT like this! You won't be expecting what she manages to do with it or how her life turns out.Out of the Sky: Aliens!! And very clever ones at that, they won't need health care that's for sure. The humour in this story only served to highlight the horror.Shadowed Things: Thanks for that BSM I now need to sleep with the light on! This really gave me the shudders. Maybe the thing in the closet is real.White Skulls: Great story about a flenser; a person who strips flesh from bones for a living, with the help of a vacuum and some beetles! An angry mob, an irksome boss.... who knows our downfall!The gory bits are so bluntly written as to be normal, I read twice to make sure I had it correct.Unreliable: well I always say I don't find ghost stories scary; you got me on this one! I turned my light on when I went out to the bathroom.Verboten: my heart was in my mouth with this little short, the emotions of love that BSM is able to evoke make this all the more creepy. When Mira goes missing her devoted sister must find her, at all costs.Tru-Blood: Bigfoot, Wendigos, dances with drums, cannibalism, this has it all. My stomach did a bit of a flipflop at the end.