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Tuesday, February 18, 2020

Review: SHORT HORROR STORIES VOLUME 12 (SCARE STREET)



5 Scary Stars!

In exception to the first eleven volumes in this spooky series, SHORT HORROR STORIES VOLUME 12 contains only two stories:

Home Again by Ron Ripley:

In the early 20th century, literary lion Thomas Wolfe announced, YOU CAN'T GO HOME AGAIN. I'm fairly certain he didn't have in mind the sort of homecoming that protagonist Allen experiences in this story!  As well as this works as a SCARY short story, I could hope that the inimitable Ron Ripley (who has an incredible imagination and a love of history) would decide in future to expand on certain characters and events mentioned--specifically those of three generations earlier.


The Inhabitant of the  Mirror by David Longhorn:  our protagonist, English by birth but long-ensconced in America, inherits the bizarre manor home of his mother's late half-brother, including its Magic Mirror.

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