A review by stayshomeandreads
ProleSCARYet: Tales of Horror and Class Warfare by Clark Boyd, Ty Zink, Tiffany Michelle Brown, M. Lopes da Silva, Ian A. Bain, Laurel Hightower, Brennan LaFaro, Donald McCarthy, Eric Raglin, Nathaniel Lee, Corey Farrenkopf, Joanna Michal Hoyt, Anthony Engebretson, J.R. Handfield, Marcus Woodman, Derek Des Anges, Joe Koch, Hailey Piper, Tom Nicholson, Ilene Goldman, Noah Lemelson, Tim Kane, David Stevens, Dustin Walker

dark funny fast-paced

5.0

This horror anthology truly encapsulated its theme. All of the stories are so different and take wildly different approaches, but they all have this creeping feeling of dread throughout. And it's not just the standard, horror-monster-evil type of dread: it has an added layer of the dread that everyone who isn't rich feels all the time worrying about how we'll pay our bills and put food on the table. Knowing that the rug could be pulled out from under us at any time. Many of these stories veer right into the speculative fiction side of horror, which I loved. Correy Farrenkopf's story comes to mind, as does Clark Boyd's. A lot of them are also written in a horror-comedy style, which in my opinion was best shown by Nathaniel Lee's story about Beelzebub walking into a gas station night shift. Other standouts to me were Hailey Piper's story about revenge on missing out and Laurel Hightower's story about a demonic entity in the workplace. I highly recommend this story collection if you're looking for a fun set of horror stories centered around the miseries of the daily grind. I had a ton of fun reading it and thank Cursed Morsels for the ARC.