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4.1⭐️ and to complete out my October reads, I am with this creepy little short story. I have read Joe Hill before and I didn‘t get the creep vibes from his full length features as I did from this 54 page book. I am still shaking off the heebie-jeebies. Was I terrified… No. Did it make me question sounds… 100%! Fun way to end the month!

Read/listened to these free-from-Prime novellas in the last few weeks: creepy, creatureey, horrifying, (and a couple of bizarre) unique stories. Most memorable was The Indigo Room.

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Oh man, I love a good #CreatureFeature but, unfortunately, this isn‘t it… Written in 1982, this hasn‘t aged very well… Despite the title, the “monster” plays a remarkably small role here. The body count is high, but the real villains are the oil executives & their security detail who murderously want the oil buried beneath Loch Ness before all else! I just wanted more monster & less eye-rolling induced telling rather than showing! Disappointing!

Such a creepy/atmospheric read, just how Joe managed to create such a palpable, mesmerising read in a novella is a true credit to his writing skills. I devoured this in one sitting as I couldnt put it down, I just had to see where it would end and it did not disappoint as some novellas can when they seem to end abruptly once they have reached a certain word count. Such a well woven story for a compact read. ⭐⭐⭐⭐

Not gonna lie…this scared the crap out of me. The narrator does a great monster voice, plus, it‘s just a creepy story! This is a good example of why I don‘t hang out in the woods.

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I didn‘t get to this short story (part of the Creature Feature collection on Amazon) last year, so I listened to it today as a warm up to #HauntedShelf. Creepy for sure!

My October's extra scary #bookspin list.

I have everything here from sort of cozy mysteries to creature features to haunted houses, to teen slashers. I'm excited for October reading.

Spooky season is here (and it will last until at least Spring).

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An interesting novella

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