Literally Dead

For today's countdown to Halloween reading suggestion: Literally Dead,:Tales of Halloween Hauntings. Another welcome discovery this year. There's a lot of ghost stories in this anthology, and very solid ones too, but there's also a few creepy critters. Among them, a candy monster and a creature living in a fridge, both generous and nasty, if not dangerous. There are proper horror stories and dark (as in very dark) comedies, but if I had to give a general feeling to the whole body of work, I'd say it is nostalgia. With what it entails of sorrow, loss and melancholy. One doesn't always gets scared reading these stories, but they're terrifying in other ways. Oh and on a side note: what a cover.