Welcome to the Dark.
We are all familiar with tropes of the horror genre: slasher and victims, demon and the possessed. Bloody screams, haunted visions, and the peddler of wares we aren’t sure we can trust. In this young adult horror anthology, fans of Jordan Peele, Lovecraft Country, and Horror Noire will get a little bit of everything they love—and a lot of what they fear—through a twisted blend of horror lenses, from the thoughtful to the terrifying.
From haunted, hungry Victorian mansions, temporal monster–infested asylums, and ravaging zombie apocalypses, to southern gothic hoodoo practitioners and cursed patriarchs in search of Black Excellence, All These Sunken Souls features the chilling creations of acclaimed bestsellers and hot new talents, with stories from Kalynn Bayron, Donyae Coles, Ryan Douglass, Sami Ellis, Brent Lambert, Ashia Monet, Circe Moskowitz, Joel Rochester, Liselle Sambury, and Joelle Wellington.
I feel like these stories are very American-centric. So much media is, of course, but I'm sure there are things here that I'm missing. If not, then many of these stories just don't make sense.
It's a shame, because the writing itself is really good and I was eager to read each story and see what was going to happen. I just didn't understand all of them. Once or twice it seemed like we'd come in in the middle. However there's a great range of characters and horror subgenres represented here, so whatever your favorite is, it's probably here.
I enjoyed this and I'll be recommending it, but I wish I'd understood it better.
All These Sunken Souls publishes on the 17th October, 2023. I received a free copy and am giving an honest review.
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