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Suburban Monsters by Christopher Hawkins
4.0

Received this copy from Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.
I've read a few horror anthologies and it's always daunting at first, worrying about whether there's gonna be ones you didn't like mixed in with the good ones. Making you power through it just to get done. But this one I can safely say had me enthralled the entire time, with every short story it gave me. At first, we're disturbed by it and it's a fantastic start to draw you in and lead you to not wanting to set it down.

Each one had me more and more curious about the next and excited to see what he would describe to me. By the time I got to our shut-in and the delivery man, I was absolutely thinking WHAT. The subtle way he describes things is an art form in itself.

He's showing us how hidden and quiet the suburban monsters can be, hidden amongst most of us. I want to go back and re-read to see if there's anything I missed! I loved the other one with the start-up of "superheroes" and how twisted the origin of that was.