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5.0

So creepy, so fun, and I loved this so much. Each page you turn lends another one-liner, most of them feeling like the middle or ending of a story that the accompanying illustration fleshes out further. It's a brilliant method for horror story-telling, because our imaginations will always be one of the most terrifying sources of nightmares. It doesn't hurt at all that the illustrations themselves range from morbidly humorous to ominous to downright chilling (there's one in particular that literally did make me look back over my shoulder, just like Joe Hill's introduction promised I would). I also loved the little nod to the Locke & Key graphic novel series in one of them — if you've read them, I hope you catch it, too!