Thank you so much to the author and publisher for sending this book in exchange for an honest review!

Can we first take a moment to acknowledge, appreciate, and worship this cover?! The cover is the first thing that drew me to wanting this book; I won't lie. I had just finished a huge marathon of the Saw movies and then I come across this book where a woman has this pig head or mask... SOLD!

I am going to go ahead and say, too, that short stories are not my favorite. I like a little more meat on the bones. Short stories usually leave me wanting more. There have been a couple of great collections I have read this year (this being one of them), but the majority of them have been 3 stars and left me wanting more and more. Christa Carmen's collection, however, engaged and shook me to the core! I absolutely loved these stories and never once felt cheated or left wanting.

One of the best features of this book is how Carmen just writes. I want to have a conversation with her. The words and the sentences that come out of her mouth are just pure dark poetry. She uses a wide vocabulary of delicately chosen words and I loved it. I found myself getting lost in the prose and I really feel it helps this collection stand out from others I have read.

My favorite stories include: Red Room, Something Borrowed Something Blood-Soaked, Liquid Handcuffs, and The Girl Who Loved Bruce Campbell. But all thirteen stories in the collection resonate with me on a horror-loving level and I truly recommend this collection! 5 stars for me on this excellent book!

3.5 out of 5 for this one! I have to say this is one where I would steer people towards just watching the movie (either the original OR the remake, to be honest) instead of reading the book. The book does not quite capture or bring to life all the ridiculous and horrible things that seem to afflict the family. While I enjoyed it, I found the book to be less credible than the film(s).

Kristi DeMeester grows as a favorite author of mine with each of her works I read. I first read Beneath. Then I read one story in Everything That's Underneath - and I am so eager to open that horror collection back up! And now I was able to read Unmemory, a creepy holiday-themed short story, due to it being included in the Night Worms book package for December.

I am going to start by saying that I am not YET a huge short story fan as a whole. I enjoy less of them than I love. And I LOVE even less than I enjoy. I am not sure what it is - it could be that I just want more more more all the time and I am not the right audience for "snippets" of horror. But then there are some authors like DeMeester who make me forget I am reading a short story at all and I just love everything I am reading. Unmemory is that!

I loved the format in which it was told - a chapbook pamphlet with some KILLER illustrations throughout. Yves Tourigny slayed me with all the fantastic artwork! The opening sentence had me beyond hooked. And the "focal point" of the story surrounds an old VHS tape. SOLD.

I do not want to give too much away since the story is so short, but I will say that I got some great nostalgia Christmas vibes from this one in the midst of the Santa-fueled movie terror. And I am also reminded that I need to be ever so grateful at all times that the man I ended up meeting online turned out to be normal and that I married him! Things could have gone in such a different path...

4.5 out of 5 for Unmemory from me! DeMeester just know show to tell a story and her way with words will just make you warm all over. HIGHLY recommended!

This book had such potential in my mind. I can't even express how enticed I was by the premise of the story. I was so eager for this one! Unfortunately, it flopped. And it flopped hard. The way the story is told is just SO boring. This would have worked so much better if someone who knew how to actually tell a story wrote the book based on conversations with Stallworth. This book read like one giant police file of dull facts. I am sure the movie is MUCH better because it is by Lee and Peele, after all. In my opinion, just watch that - this book will put you to sleep. 2 stars.

4 stars! Full review to come

3.5 - full review to come!

I have never read a Nancy Drew book before. I had an idea of what I was getting myself into, but was still pleasantly surprised. Anywho, not much to write in a review so I am just going to give this a solid 3.5 stars and will be going through more of these as time allows for some good fun! I hope to get to The Hardy Boys next year, too, as I am sure these will all be quick, fun, brain-candy reads!

GAH! These stories were SO amazing! This is a book that has a stunning cover and even more wonderful pages within. I was so impressed at the ability of these stories to shock and surprise me. I got a taste for some new authors that I have seen before but never read - and thanks to the stories in here I have added some of their books to my TBR! This is my first Christmas reading "holiday horror" and I absolutely must do it every year now. Stories like the ones here just added to the overall great experience of the season and I am already looking forward to next year. 5 stars from me!

Yay for a fresh and creepy Goosebumps book to give me nostalgic mind a little tug. I loved this one - would it have been a much better choice to read around Halloween? Absolutely. But I loved it nonetheless and really enjoyed the aspect that involved a "vacation" to their grandparent's farm house. When I was growing up fewer things made me happier than spending a week or two at my nana and papa's house during summer break. I got spoiled to death, got to hang out with some cousins, and I just had a lot of fun memories on those trips. FORTUNATELY, nothing like this happened on one of my visits! The worst thing that happened to me might have just been stepping in bubble gum on a hot asphalt parking lot and somehow getting the gum ALL OVER MY ENTIRE BODY. The end.

Hmm, not overly impressed with this one and there was not NEARLY enough worm eating to live up to the title. I'd much prefer to re-read the middle grade classic, How To Eat Fried Worms, if I wanted a book truly about eating worms. I did enjoy the "Stop effing with nature/insects or we gon' seek our revenge, fools" semi-theme that happened here. Never been a huge fan of bugs and this book made me think of the time I was a summer research assistant in the mountains and had to carry small refrigerators FULL of moths and bugs and then identify them in petri dishes before they "woke up" and start flying all over the dang place and freaking me out! The end.