Terry West

One Hellacious Halloween from Horror Novel Reviews is a book of flash fiction with 30 stories in it all having to do with Halloween. This book has humor, horror and lots of quick quirky stories that would be fun to tell around a campfire.

This anthology includes a story from Horroraddicts.net's own Emerian Rich called "Soul Taker 2.0". It's about a game programmer named Tory who is designing an add on pack to an online game called Soul Taker. To play the game you have to sign over your digital soul and all your supernatural fantasies come true, but there is a price to pay. I felt like Emerian really put some research into this story which made it seem more real and I loved the ending.

Terry M. West also has a story in this anthology called "The Hairy Ones," which is about religion and marriage and what kind of horrors people are willing to put up with for the sake of both. This was a story that managed to be disturbing using the power of suggestion rather than being violent. I felt that this was one of the better stories in the book.

This book was a fun read and will do a good job getting you in the mood for Halloween. There were a lot of good ideas and stories in this book such as "Werewolf Dentists From Hell" and "The Halloween House". The stories were so quick that you didn't have a chance to get bored and it will introduce you to several new writers. Which leads me to the one thing I didn't like about the anthology. There were no author bios, so if you like an author from this collection you will have to look them up to learn more about them. I think it would be fun to read a story from One Hellacious Halloween everyday in October to get you in the mood for Halloween, but these stories are entertaining all year-long.… (més)

“Stone Cold” Steve Austin was born in Victoria, Texas and loved wrestling. He watched it all the time and eventually got into small amateur wresting rings. Eventually his passion leads him to the WWE but his body could not keep up.

This book was a little disappointing because I thought that the real Steve Austin would be different than the person on television but he wasn’t. I would not recommend this book to any one looking for inspiration. It was very dull.

In the classroom this book cold be used to point out the disadvantages of being famous or how the wrestling profession is grueling on the body. Have the student research different professions and writing a paper on their favorite.… (més)