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3VIL volume 2 eBook Mike Miller

There are two kinds of short stories: bad stories which can’t stretch a small idea into something bigger, or good stories where an abundance of material is finely shrunk into a nifty package. Like much of this author’s other short works, each of these three tales could have been expanded to fill a full-length novel, but instead the pacing is excitedly compacted into riveting one-sitting experiences. I especially appreciate the general style of these works of horror, which all skillfully work off creeping dread and mad macabre instead of cheap shock and excessive gore.

Story 1 - “Little Ghost” – The first story has a tender and tragic side to this story of a dysfunctional family grappling with each other’s madness. This is the least scary of the stories, but perhaps the most disturbing.

Story 2 - "What is in the Woods?" – This is the author’s take on the classic “cabin in the woods” type of story, but features some very unexpected twists in the narrative. It often purposefully plays against the reader’s expectations for this seemingly familiar setting, which results in the most scares in this trilogy.

Story 3 - "The Nightmare You Will Have" – This is my personal favorite of the bunch. Though this could arguably be classified as just a thriller and not horror, this is easily the most cerebral and different story of the batch. Without giving anything away on the plot, this story places YOU as the protagonist, brilliantly constructing a story you get to directly experience through 2nd-person narration. In that regard, this story is like this writer’s other masterpiece “Kill Thy Neighbor,” another cool, suspenseful story where the reader also plays the hero.

This author’s work may not be for all horror aficionados as the works are (relatively) free from violence and gore. While that’s not to say that those moments are not within these stories, they are far more tastefully done than the easy splatterhouse prose that can plague the genre. These stories succeed on cerebral dread and fascinating journeys over cheap tricks and stale clichés.


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3VIL volume 2 eBook Mike Miller Reviews

Another collection of horror stories from the author Stephen King regards as "...The next great voice in horror fiction, Mike Miller."
Especially terrifying is the story "What Is In The Woods?" a spin on the Evil Dead premise, as well as a dark tale told from the second person entitled "The Nightmare You Will Have" which penetrates the psyche of the reader in its vivid, hypnotic narrative.
There are two kinds of short stories bad stories which can’t stretch a small idea into something bigger, or good stories where an abundance of material is finely shrunk into a nifty package. Like much of this author’s other short works, each of these three tales could have been expanded to fill a full-length novel, but instead the pacing is excitedly compacted into riveting one-sitting experiences. I especially appreciate the general style of these works of horror, which all skillfully work off creeping dread and mad macabre instead of cheap shock and excessive gore.

Story 1 - “Little Ghost” – The first story has a tender and tragic side to this story of a dysfunctional family grappling with each other’s madness. This is the least scary of the stories, but perhaps the most disturbing.

Story 2 - "What is in the Woods?" – This is the author’s take on the classic “cabin in the woods” type of story, but features some very unexpected twists in the narrative. It often purposefully plays against the reader’s expectations for this seemingly familiar setting, which results in the most scares in this trilogy.

Story 3 - "The Nightmare You Will Have" – This is my personal favorite of the bunch. Though this could arguably be classified as just a thriller and not horror, this is easily the most cerebral and different story of the batch. Without giving anything away on the plot, this story places YOU as the protagonist, brilliantly constructing a story you get to directly experience through 2nd-person narration. In that regard, this story is like this writer’s other masterpiece “Kill Thy Neighbor,” another cool, suspenseful story where the reader also plays the hero.

This author’s work may not be for all horror aficionados as the works are (relatively) free from violence and gore. While that’s not to say that those moments are not within these stories, they are far more tastefully done than the easy splatterhouse prose that can plague the genre. These stories succeed on cerebral dread and fascinating journeys over cheap tricks and stale clichés.