Blog Tour Review - Black Crow Best New Horror

 Blog Tour Review - Black Crow Best New Horror

There's always been something about the horror story that I've felt really suits the short story format. I think it's because there's no slow build up and no comforting resolution, as a reader you're just dropped straight into the scary situation and you're often left without answers. The ghosts aren't exorcised, the demons aren't revealed to simply be the grounds keeper in a rubber mask, and the horror is left lingering in your mind.

I grew up reading horror short story collections by Stephen King, Edgar Allen Poe and HP Lovecraft but it's been a while since I read any new horror collections so I was very excited to be asked to read and review one of the short stories in the Black Crow Best New Horror Anthology.

For anyone unfamiliar with Black Crow, they've been doing book marketing and PR for ages now and are responsible for arranging many of the blog tours I've been doing over the last few years. They're passionate and enthusiastic about great books, really fun to work with, and are now taking really exciting steps into publishing themselves. 

The story I was asked to read and review is The Other Brother by Rian Hughes and it was excellent and very spooky! It's a story about a story, as Mia and Isaac find an old book that creeped Mia out as a young girl in an old, secondhand bookshop. They buy it and Isaac reads it to Mia but all is not as she remembers it.

It's a fascinating story about why certain things scare us in that way that can stay with us for years, and the unreliability of memory and perception and it is definitely a creepy tale in itself! The narrative is interspersed with verses from the old book for extra creepiness. 

If this story is indicative of the whole anthology then it is definitely worth getting and reading!

I was sent an ebook of The Other Brother in exchange for an honest review and participation in this Black Crow PR blog tour.

The Black Crow Best New Horror Anthology is published by Black Crow Books and is out now.