Book #243 of 2019: Full Throttle by Joe Hill I don’t really know what to do with this latest Joe Hill collection. My average rating over its thirteen short stories is a 3-out-of-5 stars, but the most common score that I’d give to the individual entries would be a 2. Overall, I guess it’s a …
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Book Review: Flight or Fright edited by Stephen King and Bev Vincent
Book #27 of 2019: Flight or Fright edited by Stephen King and Bev Vincent In principle, horror about air travel is a fine concept for a short story collection. There’s so much that can go wrong on a plane, at least in the domain of fiction: from supernatural cloud-dwellers (“Nightmare at 20,000 Feet” by Richard …
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Book Review: Strange Weather by Joe Hill
Book #233 of 2018: Strange Weather by Joe Hill These four novellas from author Joe Hill are of mixed quality, but the collection as a whole is well worth the price of admittance. SNAPSHOT: A thirteen-year-old boy learns that his neighbor’s dementia has been caused by a sinister man whose magic camera is stealing her …
Book Review: 20th Century Ghosts by Joe Hill
Book #164 of 2018: 20th Century Ghosts by Joe Hill Joe Hill’s novels have been hit-or-miss for me, and it turns out that his short stories are much the same. There are some great pieces in this collection: the opening “Best New Horror” manages to be heartfelt, creepy, and darkly comic all at once, and …
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Book Review: The Fireman by Joe Hill
Book #75 of 2018: The Fireman by Joe Hill This Joe Hill novel about a widespread plague of spontaneous combustion has a promising start, but it loses steam as it goes along, especially once it becomes clear that the author is largely just retelling his father’s post-apocalyptic classic The Stand. There are major plot points …
Book Review: NOS4A2 by Joe Hill
Book #141 of 2016: NOS4A2 by Joe Hill NOS4A2 is a great story, but it’s also something of a love letter from author Joe Hill to his father. The plot and the characters all feel like they could be pulled straight from a Stephen King novel, and even if Hill were not King’s son, it …
Book Review: Horns by Joe Hill
Book #60 of 2015: Horns by Joe Hill This book about a man who wakes up with demon horns and the ability to make people tell him their deepest secrets and desires can’t decide what sort of story it wants to be telling. There are a few different ones at play here, from a detective …
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