In the tradition of "Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark" by Alvin Schwartz, "They're Coming For You: Scary Stories that Scream to be Read: Bloody Valentine Edition" is a chilling collection of 14 "love" stories sure to give you "da chicken skin" and leave you screaming for more. Or just screaming. This macabre mix of howls, humor, horror, and heartache is a must have for anyone who loves to be scared. But take the warning seriously... This book is NOT for wimps!
Serving as a sampler of sorts, most of the tales in this anthology appear in the first three volumes of the author's scary story series. In some cases these stories have to do with the horrors of love, but mostly it just comes down to the love of horror. A brand new one, "Such Sweet Sorrow," is a little change of pace in the form of a para-roma. (Yuck! But the theme is love after all.) Closing out the collection is the short novel "Vampire Ghost: The Short Life and Many Deaths of Harry 'Dead Baby' Wilson." This one’s a kind of otherworldly murder mystery.
Bloody Valentine Edition contents:
Such Sweet Sorrow... A lonely painter finds love and loses his grip on reality.
Yo Mama’s Right Here... Horror along the Oregon Trail.
All the Pretty Vampires... A scientist battles the undead.
The Girl Who Wouldn’t Marry Nuno Neves... The Boogie Man takes a bride.
Small Room... A remodeling project opens a door to hell.
La Arrugada... The ghost of a wrinkled nurse haunts a Mexican hospital.
Room for Two More... An ancient evil lurks in the snowy woods.
Pagliaccio... A broken-hearted clown shares his sorrows and his horrors.
I Dooooooooo... A ghostly groom comes back for his wedding.
All the Pretty Zombies... Who says zombies have to be ugly?
Going Down... A mother's love goes down a dark path.
It’s a Wrap... A modern-day mummy haunts two teens.
The Delicious Death of Jay Whitebread... The character from an old horror story helps a writer get it right.
Vampire Ghost (a short novel)... What happens when a vampire dies? That's where the story ends. Or is it?
