Every House is Hauntedby Ian Rogers
Blurb:
In this brilliant debut collection, Ian Rogers explores the border-places between our world and the dark reaches of the supernatural. The landscape of death becomes the new frontier for scientific exploration. With remarkable deftness, Rogers draws together the disturbing and the diverting in twenty-two showcase stories that will guide you through terrain at once familiar and startlingly fresh.
My Reaction:
This is a DNF.
Every so often I think a creepy short story would hit the spot, but unfortunately, I must be very picky when it comes to horror short stories. I so rarely actually enjoy them! I only read three in this collection before calling it quits. "Ace" was just "okay" for me, "Autumnology" was far too short for me to get into at all, and "Leaves Brown" was another "okay". They're not long or involved enough for me. I know short stories tend to be open-ended, but these were open even by that standard. Worse, I didn't find them scary or even particularly eerie.
No sense in continuing, as I suspect "okay" is going to be my strongest reaction. I can see how some readers might enjoy them, but they're not for me. It's a shame; I love the title, but the stories don't seem to match it, in my ever-so-humble opinion.
