Review: More excellence
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 03 17, 2013
"The Horror Challenge Volume II" by J.H.Glaze is the fifth book by this author that I have read within the space of less than two weeks and I am still amazed by the creativity and originality of the material. In the Horror Challenge readers and fans give the author a word or cue that then becomes a theme or a prop within a horror short story. The connections between the cues and the actual stories are entertaining to watch in themselves and the always well written 'flash stories' are covering a wide range of topics: nightmares, flesh eating monsters, a town that disappears, a broken childhood promise and deep coat pockets. Compared to the last selection this group of stories might be more fun and playful. I am not usually a great fan of short stories because I prefer to get deeper into a plot and its characters but I have not found this to be a problem in this selection. There is little that I have not said in praise of the author in my previous reviews, so I must repeat myself and state what a talented and gifted writer Glaze is. It is a pleasure to read through an author's entire catalogue of work and find consistently high levels of quality both in style and content.