This is definitely recommended to be read with the show, which I have not yet seen 

Anxiety inducing in an actively un fun way

Thank you to V. Castro and NetGalley for the digital ARC. I'm sorry I didn't like the book.

 The short stories throw readers directly into the deep end of what should be the climax of a story without any of the build up. It makes it hard to care about the characters and leaves the settings feeling indistinct.

This reads like fanfiction. The plural first person POV, the in-depth description of characters' outfits and bodies, and the pop culture references all culminate in the distinctive voice of online fandom spaces. I really enjoy horror set in liminal spaces, and I was looking forward to the titular story, but I couldn't get through the rest of them to get there. Story one, "The Carnival of Gore" was not well written and felt unnecessarily horny. I couldn't suspend my disbelief for a dying man being aroused by the same type of creature whose bite may have killed him, in such a short amount of page time. Story 2, "The Four Horseman Inn" was fine, for the most part. Not particularly memorable. I don't understand why they let the zombie in, in the middle. There was nothing to make me care about the characters or their plight. Story 3 "Bruja Barbie and her Ken" is a smutty stalker reverse harem. Specific pop culture references and inverting the male gaze in a way that allowed it to stay just as toxic made this an  unenjoyable read. I gave up 2 pages into Story 4 "The Last Halloween." I couldn't follow the plot outside of the general understanding of it being a bacchanal.   

Having a diverse variety of lived experiences and desires available in literature is important and there is an audience for this book, but I am not it.

The short amount of time spent humanizing the girls, as opposed to the long amount of time spent on exploring the investigator's methods and the history of violence in police work in the first 45% didn't sit right with me. It's also very slow and spends far too much time giving details of individual interviews and interrogations.

Didn't quite catch my attention as I was reading it. I had to go back and reread a few pages a few times. I may pick this up again later.

I was really enjoying this book as I was reading it. I just put it down for too long and lost track of all of the names and places of importance. I'll pick it up again eventually.

Not interested. The content oscellates hard between being far more progressive than I expected and incredibly judgemental.

Wasn't in the mood for fiction about sad women.