Please note that I received this book via NetGalley. This did not affect my rating or review.
I am in annual training right now and barely slept so I am going to post an overall review on the collection as a whole and will come back later to rate each story individually at a later time.
I have to say that Rose did a great job with evoking Halloween and many of the adult readers memories of horror books and short stories that shaped many of us when we were younger. She talks about “Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark” and I have told readers before how I loved that collection and how I used to scare the crap out of the neighborhood kids while reading out some of the stories.
This collection was on the whole, solid. It was a great horror anthology for young adult readers. Some of the stories thought could have been set up a bit better in my opinion since a few just seemed like they started in the middle and the author didn’t even provide any backstory. I am blanking on the name of the one story that had the most egregious set-up, but it’s about a bunch of teens who in essence defeated a slasher and then we jump to the ending. Nothing sets this up and the ending felt a bit odd.
One of the better stories that I loved was the one with the teen kid who got dared to go to a pumpkin field and smash some pumpkins. I thought it was perfect for the audience of this story and significantly scary.