In preparing for Halloween I wanted to read something scary. Seeing as how this was provided to me by Cemetery Dance Magazine I had high hopes. I was disappointed to find that out of the 4 stories in this collection 3 of them read like an outline. It seemed that Mr. Ryan was making notes on the stories he hoped to write, maybe trying to jot down a dream upon awaking before he lost it. Nothing in the first 3 stories is developed and there are no endings. Just as you think some thing may be about to happen the stories are over. Based on the first 3 stories this book would have received 1 star from me, but the final story earned it a second star. Mountain Man is a bit more fleshed out and does have a bit of a plot. It still reads as if it's not finished and is just the idea of a story to come, but it did have dialog between characters and did have something take place.
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