A review by lezlie
Her Infernal Name & Other Nightmares by Robert P. Ottone
adventurous
challenging
dark
mysterious
medium-paced
4.0
These stories were so deliciously inventive!!!
Some were creepy, some were weird, some...made sense in a very unsettling way, while others were just so freaking creative that if someone had been sitting next to me while reading them, I would have been pulling on their arm to show them what I just read.
My typical method of reading short story collections is to read one story per day - give each story its time in the limelight to shine. Also because sometimes when they're all by the same author, the writing style is the same and I'm scared they'll all run together. That is NOT the case with Robert P. Ottone. I was reading 3-4 stories per day, back to back - I didn't want to put this book down!
I'll absolutely be rereading these as the mood strikes or just when I want to revisit a particular story - a great one for those who just want some bite-sized horror in their reading diet.
Some were creepy, some were weird, some...made sense in a very unsettling way, while others were just so freaking creative that if someone had been sitting next to me while reading them, I would have been pulling on their arm to show them what I just read.
My typical method of reading short story collections is to read one story per day - give each story its time in the limelight to shine. Also because sometimes when they're all by the same author, the writing style is the same and I'm scared they'll all run together. That is NOT the case with Robert P. Ottone. I was reading 3-4 stories per day, back to back - I didn't want to put this book down!
I'll absolutely be rereading these as the mood strikes or just when I want to revisit a particular story - a great one for those who just want some bite-sized horror in their reading diet.