The Corona Book Of Horror Stories edited by Lewis Williams

Corona Books UK, 2017

ISBN-13:  978-0-9932472-6-2

Available: Paperback, eBooks(Kindle)

The Corona Book of Horror Stories is a collection of 16 up-and-coming writers of incredible imagination.  There are a variety of stories that cover the gamut of the horror genre;  there is something for nearly everyone.  Anything that can be used to scare, terrorize and, give you the creeps is on tap here, from the mundane to the extraordinary.  Variety is the spice of life.  And death.

This was an interesting collection of new writers.  Most of them are in and from the U.K. with a few U.S. writers mixed in.  Each story was edited with the author’s origin in mind, so the grammar switched up occasionally.  The variety was fun, as I did not know what topic I would get with each new story.

However, there were some stories I loved and some I did not.  Those I really liked were: A Health And Safety Issue (I can relate); Bad Boys Don’t Get Dessert (shocking at the end); The Ornament (it actually gave me the creeps); Death By Appointment (a contemporary interview with Death.  Timeless!)  The stories I didn’t like either took too long to really get rolling or just needed grammatical and editorial help.

In the end, although the quality of the stories varied, The Corona Book of Horror Stories is worth reading to see what some new writers are putting together.  I have not read any of these author’s works before.

Contains:  Adult language, adult situations, graphic images and violence

Reviewed by Aaron Fletcher