Review: Short-Stories
Short-Stories by Various
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
This small collection of a handful of classic stories proves refreshing, if a touch moralistic. I love Hawthorne’s writing, but his stories I find just a touch too direct. (Don’t lecture me, old man!) My favorite in here is one I hadn’t read before, “The Griffin and the Minor Canon,” which is basically the story of a gargoyle coming to stare at its likeness above a church. Its presence terrifies the villagers, and the further reactions made for interesting reading. Something about that story really works on me.
What I love about this collection is how representative it is of horror stories as literature.
Some bad formatting in this free kindle version frustrated me at times.