North American Lake Monsters (Paperback)

from Pretear

All the usual horror suspects are represented in this collection of short stories, but this book is more unsettling than it is scary. The writing was beautiful and descriptive in a way that makes you feel as though you're watching a movie in your mind's eye. My favorite story was The Good Husband...

from

This is one of the best collections of short stories I've read in a long time. The characters are painfully real, many of them not good people at all, but fascinating, and the stories linger. My favorites were "You Go Where It Takes You," a story about becoming someone else; "Sunbleached," a stor...

from D.ThoursonPalmer

Dark tales, some haunting, some disturbing, some hopeful. These stories are of human monsters and the monstrousness of us, in us, and the others, the monsters outside, often are the less horrific. You'll go places you'd rather have avoided, but come out the better. Some of these will stay with me...

from Cail_Judy

There's something sharp and disturbing in each one of these stories. I agree with the comparisons to Raymond Carver - sad, small lives pockmarked with truly gut-turning shades of the horrific.

from Goldengrove

I bought this because of a recommendation in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, a source I have always found reliable. Horror is not usually my thing, but well-written stories transcend genre and these 9 tales are very good indeed. In each story there is a mystery, an unexpected twist a...