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Stories For Nighttime And Some For The Day (2011)

by Ben Loory(Favorite Author)

3.76 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

0143119508 (ISBN13: 9780143119500)

languge

English

genre

Horror

publisher

Penguin Books

review 1: I admit that I read a great many of these stories before finally breaking down and inter-library loaning this title. It was so worth it. These stories are like a punch to the side of the head. Sometimes they are so strange, they put the reader in that uncomfortable place in which there is no way of knowing which way the story will unfold. Honestly, I loved it. Loory takes inanimate objects and makes them magical and scary (a swimming pool, a balloon, a rope). Of course, it's never really the object that is scary...it's the human's reaction to it. If I HAD to pick a favorite, it would be The Book. But Girl in a Storm and many others would be a close second. This is a great collection. I recommend reading one or two stories a day with a giant pause in between for reflec... moretion.
review 2: 2.75 stars. I don't know how I feel about this one. I really liked "The Tree" and the story about the girl caught in the storm. On the whole, however, it felt as though I was simply reading reiterations of the same sort of story over and over and over again. I think this collected would be better appreciated piece by piece and not read straight through in two sittings. Read a story, let it settle for a few days/weeks/etc, then maybe pick up the collection again at a later time. less

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