A review by elenajohansen
Everything's Eventual: 14 Dark Tales by Stephen King
4.0
It's always hard for me to properly rate and review short story collections, because the stories can vary so wildly. I liked more of the stories than I didn't (only two really bored me) and several of the stories I actually loved.
The "dark" in the title is appropriate, because rather than all of these being classic horror, many of them had more of a psychological or sometimes moral creepiness. I remember reading a different collection of King's stories as a tween (bad idea) and having trouble sleeping for the next week--but this one wasn't frightening, just unsettling. Which isn't worse or better than straight horror, just different.
The "dark" in the title is appropriate, because rather than all of these being classic horror, many of them had more of a psychological or sometimes moral creepiness. I remember reading a different collection of King's stories as a tween (bad idea) and having trouble sleeping for the next week--but this one wasn't frightening, just unsettling. Which isn't worse or better than straight horror, just different.