![]() ![]() ![]() I think it is a credit to this book that I managed to enjoy it in audiobook form - each story was about half an hour long and it is normally hard for me to focus on something that changes so quickly in audiobook format. The book is held together by the general theme of parenthood and childhood - not only the experience of being a child, but the experience of being someone's child, children's relationships with their parents, their grandparents, their roots and contexts. ![]() However, the collection as a whole really works - the first stories have an amazing sense of place and atmosphere, whereas the later stories explore some interesting ideas (I really liked the Carriers' take on 50+ years after the apocalypse). The individual stories vary - some, like Ghost Summer or Patient Zero, are absolutely essential reading for anyone, horror fan or not, whereas others didn't quite hit that mark. I think this collection amounts to more than a sum of its parts. ![]()
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