Thursday, July 17, 2014

A Terrifying Taste of Short and Shivery

Author: Robert San Souci
Stars: 2
Review by: Mandy Apgar

The overall worst of the series I think. A collection of darker folktales retold from global locations, it would have been a lot better if the editor had forgone adding silly urban legend type stories in. Where the book follows the usual series format we get classic stories like The Lutin and the usual one or two really obscure ones, but this volume has several "mad killer hiding behind the back seat" type things and is a small book at that. Also contains a retelling of a paranormal event known as the Dartmooor Terror and the same applies there - it is not written very well having been dumbed down a bit for the younger readers. The art as well is not the best of the series either.
 
 

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