Growing Things and Other Stories audiobook

We all know the big bad is coming, and there’s nothing we can do to stop it, yet still we go to our jobs and we chitchat about nothing important with coworkers and we go to dinner and we go to the mall and we go to our dentist appointments and we buy groceries and we make plans with friends and family and we walk and love our pets and we watch TV or read or sit in the glow of our smartphones, and all we’re doing is going through the motions because we can’t stop and think and accept that the pit of dread in our stomach is a pit of knowing. The big bad is coming. Growing Things is my second exposure to Paul Tremblay’s writing. The first was his outstanding, award-winning 2018 novel, The Cabin at the End of the World. I have not read his earlier horror novels, A Head Full of Ghosts or Disappearance at Devil’s Rock. Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa. The reason this matters is that there are a few stories in this collection that use characters from A Head Full of Ghosts. It would certainly enhance one’s appreciation of those to have read the novel. And there is one story among these nineteen that serves as a prequel to Disappearance. Impact officially lost on me. Paul Tremblay - image from More2Read.comIf you do not mind such things, or have read the requisite novels, then no problem. There really should be few reasons not to thoroughly enjoy Tremblay’s dark tales. Some may be familiar to frequent readers of the genre. Turns out that seventeen of the nineteen have been previously published in anthologies or magazines. But now, together for the first time!...The approach to the stories varies, from third-person omniscient to first-person narrator to addled first-person narrator. From a story told largely through photographs to a tale told through journal entries. From a choose-your-own-adventure offering to a tripartite querying of a circus seer laid out in a very unusual physical format. There is a story within a story, and one that qualifies as a novella. Sometimes Tremblay will get you close to a character, enough to care, while in other stories the characters are held at a distance, in favor of concept. Be prepared for ambiguity. He even makes fun of himself for this impulse in one of the stories. Monstrous things might be extreme manifestations of fraught emotional/behavioral states, and sometimes the horrors be real. There are several things that turn up more than once. One is most certainly a fondness for Lovecraftian beasties. There will be tentacles! Teachers recur (Tremblay’s day job is cramming math into high school brains. Maybe using tentacles?) Students get a corresponding degree of attention. Childhood is indeed a powerful source of so much horror. And let’s not forget writers. They are kept busy scribbling away, or being referenced. Best of all, there are many fun reads in Growing Things, which should only secure Tremblay’s rep as one of the best horror writers working today. You probably don’t want to let any grass grow under you waiting to pick this one up. Some fears can only be explored by story. Some emotions can only be communicated by story. Some truths can only be revealed by story. Review posted – September 13, 2019Publication date ----------July 2, 2019 - hardcover----------July 7, 2020 - trade paperbackNovember 28, 2019 - Growing Things is named to the NY Times list of 100 Notable Books of 2019December, 2019 - NPR names Growing Things as one of the Best Fantasy and Speculative Fiction Books of 2019Sadly, new reductions in the allowed review size on GR have forced me to break this review up into parts. THE STORIES follows immediately in comments #1 and #2 while EXTRA STUFF remains here =============================EXTRA STUFFLinks to the author’s personal, Twitter and FB pagesInterviews-----Cemetery Dance - Interview: Paul Tremblay on Craft, King, and Building His Cabin - not sure if it includes this book-----GQ - Paul Tremblay Is Horror's Newest Big Thing - by Tom Philip – 7/10/19-----Slant - Interview: Paul Tremblay on Growing Things and the Hope of Horror Fiction - by Neil McRobert – 7/11/19-----More2ReadInterview: Paul Tremblay on his Growing Things and Other Stories, his characters, writing, recommendations, and inspirations-----WGBH News - Paul Tremblay On His Book 'Growing Things' and Growing Up In Massachusetts-----Hangouts on Air - 2:17:45 – Tremblay with othersMy reviews of other books by Paul Tremblay-----2018 - The Cabin at the End of the World-----2020 - Survivor Song

oooh, goodreads choice awards semifinalist for BEST HORROR 2019! what will happen?a collection of stories! from paul tremblay! in which "karen brissette" appears in one and MAYBE two of the stories. although it's pretty clear to ME that there's no 'maybe' about it, coyboy. between the observation of "The cheerful unhinged-ness" of KB's writing style and the mean-but-accurate grousing about "this obnoxious KB person" (well, i NEVER!!), i am absolutely certain of what those letters stand for. PAUL TREMBLAY!!! I WILL SHOW YOU A PSEUDONYM IN A HANDFUL OF DUST!!!here is the TOC:GROWING THINGSSWIM WANTS TO KNOW IF IT'S AS BAD AS SWIM THINKSSOMETHING ABOUT BIRDSTHE GETAWAYNINETEEN SNAPSHOTS OF DENNISPORTWHERE WE ALL WILL BETHE TEACHERNOTES FROM "THE BARN IN THE WILD"__________OUR TOWN'S MONSTERA HAUNTED HOUSE IS A WHEEL UPON WHICH SOME ARE BROKENIT WON'T GO AWAYNOTES FROM THE DOG WALKERSFURTHER QUESTIONS FOR THE SOMNAMBULISTTHE ICE TOWERTHE SOCIETY OF THE MONSTERHOODHER RED RIGHT HANDIT'S AGAINST THE LAW TO FEED THE DUCKSTHE THIRTEENTH TEMPLEand if some of those titles look familiar to you, don't worry - you are not going crazy! many of these stories have been scooped out of anthologies in which they previously appeared, including a few from tremblay's first collection, In the Mean Time (Growing Things, It's Against the Law to Feed the Ducks, The Teacher) which was my first introduction to his work and a book i loved, especially the duck story, which was one of my favorites from that book and i was thrilled to read it again after all this time and to find i loved it just as much. so, yeah - maybe you have read some of these stories before. or maybe you are like me and you have bought several of these anthologies, in part because of seeing tremblay's name on the cover, but you still haven't actually gotten around to reading them (koff Dark Cities (Society of the Monsterhood), Black Feathers: Dark Avian Tales: An Anthology (Something About Birds) koff)but that just means that when i get around to reading those anthologies, it will go more quickly because reruns! AND - the story from my more-recently-purchased New Fears 2: More New Horror Stories by Masters of the Macabre is NOT in this collection, so SCORE! short story collections, especially ones pulling in works across a long period of time or from very specific "themed" anthologies, tend to be hit-or-miss. i didn't love-love every story in this book, but it's entirely down to my personal taste and - true to form - the ones i liked the least were written for lovecraft-themed anthologies (__________) or written as an homage to laird barron (Notes from 'The Barn in the Wild')-- two authors i want to like because people i like are among their fans, but they do nothing at all for me. and the hellboy story (Her Red Right Hand) probably felt more 'at home' in its original surroundings. here it stands out a bit from the tone of the rest of the collection. but there were some extremely high points. A HAUNTED HOUSE IS A WHEEL UPON WHICH SOME ARE BROKENi have never been so close to crying during a choose your own adventure experience. not even when i was shrunk down very tiny and threatened by a catWHY YOU MAKE ME ALMOST-CRY, TREMBLAY??NOTES FROM THE DOG WALKERSthis is the novella featuring that obnoxious KB person, and there are so many parts that sound like the inside of my head. IS THIS HOW SATAN FELT AFTER READING PARADISE LOST? but narcissism aside, it's a brilliant story. and it's meta for daysactually, the collection as a whole is wicked meta, if you know where to look. there are lots of little snickers to be had but be warned - THE THIRTEENTH TEMPLE should probably not be read until after you have read A Head Full of Ghosts, because - to quote the sage karen brissette from that book - I WILL SPOIL YOU! but as far as the KB in THIS story, everything "she" says about a person's bookshelves, about short stories, about referential authors - so much gold, my friends. there's this three-page chunk that is just perfection. THE GETAWAY and NINETEEN SNAPSHOTS OF DENNISPORT were both great - gritty crime fiction, only one of which has supernatural/horror elements. I'LL LET YOU DISCOVER WHICH ONE FOR YOURSELF! &etc. it's a great collection, and i am obsessed with this cover. It's a hard world for little things.indeed it is.***********************************************update: choose your own adventure story! fun! although maybe less-fun in an ARC:***********************************************IT HAS ARRIVED!!and, DAMN, but paul tremblay always has such gorgeous covers:it's even prettier in person. so, AM i the "kb" of “Notes from the Dog Walkers”? maybe, maybe not, but the fact that the character is so savvy-wary of birds speaks volumes i can't wait to read it and find out MORE! thank you for the immortality and the ARC, paul tremblay!!! *************************************************@PAUL TREMBLAY!!!The tour de force metafictional novella “Notes from the Dog Walkers” deconstructs horror and publishing, possibly bringing in a character from A Head Full of Ghosts, all while serving as a prequel to Disappearance at Devil’s Rock.is what i heard about this story from someone you evidently value more than you value me TRUE??Growing Things also features stories with ties to Tremblay’s previous novels. In the metafictional novella “Notes from the Dog Walkers,” the blogger Karen Brissette (last seen in A Head Full of Ghosts) deconstructs the horror genre while also telling a story that serves as a prequel to Disappearance at Devil’s Rock.come to my blog!

This review originally published on Cemetery Dance (April 29th, 2019)“I’m terrible at remembering plot and character specifics…if the story is successful, what I do remember and will never forget is what and how that story makes me feel.”—Paul Tremblay in the “Notes” of Growing Things.Thank goodness Paul Tremblay kindly bestowed some Author’s Notes upon his readers in the end pages for Growing Things. I was not ready to let go! I needed Paul’s conversational and personal commentary on each story—almost like I had been on a long journey, the boat had docked and Paul was there to carefully guide his readers as they stepped off the boat to stand on solid land again.Part of the sentimentality was from Paul’s carefully crafted ordering of the stories. It’s this reader’s recommendation that this collection needs to be read in order. Don’t skip about. It’s not for any reasons other than emotionally; the stories follow a cycle and it’s best to have the same beginning and ending experience as everyone else. I hope that makes sense. I’m trying not to diminish any reader discoveries by oversharing.I also recommend finishing a story and then flipping to the end, to the Notes, to read what Paul has to say about what you just read. To shed light on what you just encountered. After the first and title story, I was so excited and captivated by what I had just discovered I felt like I needed someone else in the world to freak out with! (Paul’s notes satisfied that urge to have a discussion.)As the journey continued, I took note of all the experimental narratives, story formatting and literary devices. It’s almost like over the years, Paul Tremblay has had all these fantastic ideas rattling around in his writer brain and this is the collection where he got to try them all out! I really wish I could tell you some of the unique aspects of my favorite stories but to tell you that would be to spoil some of the fun surprises that you should be able to experience for yourself. I just want to tell you that “The Teacher” was intense. “A Haunted House is a Wheel Upon Which Some Are Broken” was strange, powerful and engaging. “It Won’t Go Away” was unsettling and disturbing. “Notes From the Dog Walkers” was a slow build to madness. Madness I tell you! Shock and awe!“It’s Against the Laws to Feed the Ducks” was upsetting and even beautiful in its sadness. Lastly, I can’t even really talk about “The Thirteenth Temple.” I was super emotional about that story—lots of tears, a knot in my stomach and an odd feeling of closure. Again, thankful for the notes after that particular story.I just want to urge anyone reading this review to preorder (Update: July 2nd, 2019 AVAILABLE NOW!) this book and then read it straight away. This is one of those books that people will talk about and you just don’t want to be late to the party. Mother Horror is trying her very best to encourage you NOT TO BE LATE TO THE PARTY! I savored my time in these pages—even though some of the stories had been released previously elsewhere, they were all new to me and I treasured every word.A short story collection from a favorite author is just the best possible thing in the world; Growing Things is among the best of them.

Some creepy short stories in here. Something about birds I enjoyed the most, more thriller stories than horror I would say. The first book I read from Paul was The Cabin at the end of the world and I loved it and was super keen to read more.3.5 stars I give this collection

Tremblay's collection of short stories has a few entries that are right up there with his phenomenal novels, especially the title story "Growing Things" and "Notes for 'The Barn in the Wild'". Nearly every story is at least good, if not excellent, with "Notes from the Dog Walkers" being the only one I couldn't finish, because it wasn't that interesting and seemed like it wouldn't end. Overall, I was happy to find Tremblay can write as well in short form as he can in full-length novels.

This collection is the perfect solution for when you want to take a break from binge-watching the latest sensation on Netflix but still want a steady IV-drip of mesmerizing storytelling. Paul Tremblay's work hovers between horror and speculative fiction, that familiar no man's land between dreams and wakefulness. The place where the hairs stand up on the back of your neck in recognition that something strange is going on, that things are beyond your control, and you're going to face a reality that rarely shows its face but is with us all along, hiding in the shadows.

If ever there were a case for reading short stories, Paul Tremblay is shouting it from the rooftops with this collection.I can understand why some people aren’t as drawn to short stories. It is a lot of commitment to open up your brain to one new world every time you read a book, let alone twenty or so. But I just can’t get enough of them and constantly have a collection going. I love the complete freedom the short format gives authors and to see where some of them take it makes me excited to be a reader.Growing Things shows an author stretching far beyond the scope of what is expected by readers of his previous works. He throws those expectations out the window and doesn’t look back, instead building new, fascinating worlds, reinventions, and meta-imaginings.There are some really unique things going on in here, some experimental styles and formatting, some truly strange narratives, and even some familiar faces from previous Tremblay novels in new and unusual situations.I also loved and appreciated the “liner notes” at the end of the book—short explanations and thoughts from the author on where the stories came from or what sparked him to explore that format or idea. These are my top two favorites that reaaallllllly stood out. But honestly I loved every story.“A Haunted House is a Wheel Upon Which Some Are Broken”—A CYOA story in a house that’s haunted, but probably not the way you think.“Notes from the Dog Walkers”—a longer story that begins simply as it is titled and quickly dives deep into a meta-nightmare.Growing Things is my favorite story collection I’ve read all year. Get on over to your local bookstore and grab a copy.

A masterful collection of uniquely told tales of horror, from the weird to experimental pieces that will linger in your mind, and your nightmares long after you close the book.Tremblay's voice is refreshingly his own, even in tribute stories to Laird Barron (THE BARN IN THE WILD) and the one and only Hellboy (HER RED RIGHT HAND).A must-have for fans of Tremblay, short stories, and damn fine writing.Highly recommended.

I have a love/hate relationship with short story anthologies. I have GREAT respect for authors who write these as I feel these are harder to write than the full novel as you're putting an entire story together in under 7,500 words. Those that do it well, do it WELL and those are the ones I like but I'll be honest, it's very few and far between where they get me. I am one of those who prefer that full novel, or even the extended short story ala novelette/novella. It's hard to say I "want more" as I know this is something readers of short stories cringe at seeing when someone critiques these, but there's definitely some truth to this saying... HOWEVER, I've come to realize that when I say I "want more", it's that the author has piqued my interest enough that I want more of the story - give me the ligaments and veins and bloody insides instead of just the surface flesh. Either way, I'm EATING IT ALL UP. Mr. Tremblay.. this is one talented horror writer. As an avid reader of author's notes and acknowledgements, I always tend to skim these before I start my reads and then fully read once I'm done. I am SO glad I did that with this collection as Tremblay gives us notes on most of the stories within. I LOVE these insights and I impress upon you to read these in tandem with the stories as you go. It give them a certain *umph*. Feeling squirrely? *wink*Like with most anthologies, there are the stories that I loved and stories I didn't quite like as much. I will say that I did enjoy all the stories in this one - at various levels of course. Some had my eyebrows in a continuous furrow while others left my eyes wide and mouth open. (Love the nod to Merry and Marjorie of Head Full of Ghosts.) My favorites? Why thank you for asking. "Nineteen Snapshots of Dennisport", "Note from the Dog Walker" and "It's Against the Law to Feed the Ducks". And I absolutely loved the format of "A Haunted House is a Wheel Upon Which Some Are Broken" and "Further Questions for the Somnambulist". It's hard to really discuss any of the stories without spoiling them outright. I do think Tremblay is fantastic at ambiguity and I feel most short stories, including these, keep you thinking at the end. Others are more subtly done while some pack a punch. At the end of the day, while this is on the top of my list of short story collections to read, I think that maybe short stories in general just aren't in my wheelhouse. And that's ok. You like what you like. Quack quack.3.5 stars.

Paul Tremblay won me over with his novel "The Cabin at the End of the World", one of the most disturbing horror novels that I have read in a long time. "Growing Things" is his collection of short stories, most of them previously published in a wide variety of magazines and other horror anthologies that celebrate the New Weird, a fairly new subgenre of which I have grown fond. Other writers in this genre include Laird Barron, Jeff VanderMeer, and James Renner.What constitutes New Weird? It's hard to describe, although an overwhelming sense of surrealism, a jarring and unnerving sensation of impending cosmic doom, and a heavy dose of ambiguity all seem to be major aspects of the genre. A seamless blending of multiple genres---science fiction, fantasy, noir, and gothic horror---is also quite common.Tremblay is notable in that he seems to have mastered the art of subtlety in horror, almost to the point where horror is derived from, inexplicably, a complete lack of horror. Case in point is the brilliant story "It's Against the Law to Feed the Ducks", told from the perspective of a young boy who is on vacation with his parents. The reader begins to realize that something horrible is happening on a global scale, but there is absolutely no mention of what it is, as the parents want to shield the children as much as possible from panic.In another tension-filled story, "Where We All Will Be", a young boy on the autism spectrum is seemingly the only human left on Earth who is not affected by an inexplicable event that calls everyone, pied-piper-style, to a watery death by walking into the ocean.In "The Teacher", students in an AP English class are shown a video that has negative life-altering consequences for all of them.Some stories have a (very very dark) humor to them, such as "Notes From the Dog Walkers", in which the hired help leaves progressively more insane and terrifying notes for the dog owner. In "A Haunted House is a Wheel Upon Which Some are Broken", the story is in the form of one of those "Choose Your Own Adventures" books, but every choice inevitably leads back to the beginning in an infinite loop. Every story in this collection is unnerving as hell, leaving one with an uncomfortable sense of a world that has slightly lost its bearings. It's a sensation that most of us can relate to.

2019 interview with Paul Tremblay On his Growing Things and Other Stories, his characters, writing, recommendations, and inspirations. | More2ReadMorbid tales, haunting, fears and longings, dwellings, ghosts, devils, creatures, monsters inner and outer, melancholy, sisters, fathers and sons, teachers, men and women, and Merry and Marjorie from Head Full of Ghosts back in the narrative.A myriad of bat shit craziness presented before the reader, hypnotically evoking within the reader all kinds of things, growing things, ones of fears and longings, and with that maybe some courage with all the terrification before you with nicely crafted voices and stories.The tales I loved the most:Growing ThingsGrowing plants and mysterious knocking at the door an isolation tale with Majorie and Merry from Head Full of Ghosts.Where We All Will Be“there was something wrong with the weather, there was something wrong out there.” With “the blacked-out TV, the fuzzed-out radio, the endless traffic jam.”Great hypnotic pensive suspensive end of the world bat shit craziness.Leaving things cut short to play out onto the readers mindOur Town’s MonsterA story on a monster, the swamp kind, official or unofficial.Concept of monsters elaborates on too with some satire.“There’s a monster in the swamp. It eats cats and dogs; small, unwanted children, you know the type; and the occasional beautiful woman. Only rarely, so far, once a century, will it devour the angry torch-wielding villagers—your potential neighbors.”A Haunted House Is a Wheel upon Which Some Are BrokenNostalgia with scary things, reimagining, I see dead people in a house kind of thing, ghost and one woman’s interlude through re-walking with ghosts that scare her and the loss of loved ones.“The house is a New England colonial, blue with red and white shutters and trim, recently painted, the first-floor windows festooned with flower boxes. She stands in the house’s considerable shadow. She was once very small, and then she became big, and now she is becoming small again, and that process is painful but not without joy and an animal sense of satisfaction that the coming end is earned.”It Won’t Go AwayShock and devastating recounting of last few days of peter’s death by his friend.Two authors and writers, book readings, signings, and the terrible suicide, with the darkness and shadows around it and how he and others reacted to it.“Nine days ago, I received an envelope in the mail from Peter. It was exactly one month after he killed himself. I’d been in my new apartment for ten weeks. Time is not an arrow. It is a bottomless bag in which we collect and place things that will be forgotten.”The Society of the MonsterhoodMore monster than Grendel, bully and monster, the story of the society, KG and the monster, myth and urban legends.Her Red Right Hand“The well was hundreds of years old. Its wall was a ring of stone and crumbling mortar, jutting three feet above the ground with an opening that had a circumference wide enough to fit Daniel Webster and the devil.”A New Hampshire house, a cabin in the woods, not that book you know the one The Cabin at the End of the World.There is an ailing mother and death, and a mysterious well with creature accompanying it, one girls armed with sketch pad draws though here loss, life, and conflict with hero and monster.Review also @ https://more2read.com/review/the-growing-things-and-other-stories-by-paul-tremblay/

"Some fears can only be explored by story. Some emotions can only be communicated by story. Some truths can only be revealed by story" (333).That quote is from the "Notes" section of GROWING THINGS, an impressive collection of disturbing tales, and I share it here because that quest for exploration and emotion and truth through story is what motivates me to read and to write. If you want to know what I mean by "story truth," read THE THINGS THEY CARRIED by Tim O'Brien.This book is not slated for publication until July 2019, but an ARC fell into my hands, and it was a special treat for me to be one of its early readers. Tremblay's THE CABIN AT THE END OF THE WORLD is my favorite book of 2018, and his HEAD FULL OF GHOSTS is a terrifying masterpiece.Every story in this collection is unique. Some are masterful. Some are gloriously dread-inducing. Some are so brazen in their innovation it demands I quote another line from one such story that is completely meta: "it's likely the author (subconsciously feeling unencumbered by the demands of the marketplace) dares to be a bit more obtuse and experimental than she would in a novel, and so the stories tend to be even less easily digestible" (222).That quote is from "Notes from the Dog Walkers," which is a fascinating and startling piece of work that confronts the essence of horror (and the horror community) through the hazy window of insanity.Many of the stories are remarkable for how experimental they are. Tremblay makes use of every possible angle he can imagine, and he has quite the fecund imagination. As a reader, I'll admit, this was sometimes irritating. I wanted story, dammit. The best story here is "The Teacher" and it's also his most traditionally structured. That being said, the more avant-garde stories made the writer in me want to steal his techniques and write my own stories. [Side note: this effect is like the one Billy Collins writes about in "The Trouble with Poetry": "But mostly poetry fills me / with the urge to write poetry, / to sit in the dark and wait for a little flame / to appear at the tip of my pencil."]This collection is not for everyone. Tremblay makes the reader work for it in many cases. It is easy to get confused, to be lost in dense paragraphs. It is, be warned, easy to get quite unnerved as you explore the darker and darker corners of these tales.Tremblay is a master at the ambiguous ending (a technique he directly acknowledges, mocks, and irrevocably adores), and his words repeatedly left me cold and afraid, my skin prickled with gooseflesh, my thoughts a bit seasick because he's so damn good at shaking the floor beneath your feet.Other standouts include: "Growing Things"; "Swim Wants to Know if it's as Bad as Swim Thinks"; "Something About Birds"; "A Haunted House is a Wheel Upon Which Some are Broken"; and "The Thirteenth Temple."Every story has a strong voice, fully developed characters, and an authenticity that makes the creeping dread all the more troubling.Some stories stunned me. Some shocked me. Some disturbed me.I'd say this will be the best horror collection of the year, but there's this other master named Joe Hill, and he's got some darn good stories in a collection coming in the fall . . .Here's a literary technique Tremblay might appreciate—I quoted from page 333 and page 222, so here's one from page 111: "'When all hell broke loose and you tripped over the dead climber in the snow on your way down to camp, man, that's something that stuck with me'" (111). And these stories will stick with you, too.

It's been really cool watching Tremblay's language evolve. He's one of my favorite authors, but I've always had a hard time with the self-awareness of his prose. Here he's reached a new plane. There are so many voices in these stories. Every single entry is poignant. (Merry and Marjorie from A Head Full of Ghosts even make an appearance!) I tried limiting myself to one story every two days, but that didn't last. I hope his career is a long one.

As with any short story collection, there will be hits and misses. The misses are few and far between in this one, luckily. While I didn't love every story, there weren't any clunkers. Standouts (for me) include "Something About Birds" and "It Won't Go Away"I'm a big fan of this author's novels and it's nice to see he can excel in shorter fiction, too.

“All we’re doing is going through the motions because we can’t stop and think and accept that the pit of dread in our stomach is a pit of knowing. The big bad is coming.”Growing Things and Other Stories is a collection by the master of ambiguity. I broke down all the stories because they do all have different things to offer. There’s so many different methods of story telling, from notes to interviews to photograph descriptions to choose your own stories. Anyways here’s a lil peak at what I thought of each story:Growing Things 4.5 🌟Swim Wants to Know if it’s as Bad as Swim Thinks 3 🌟Something About Birds 3 🌟The Getaway 4 🌟Nineteen Snapshots of Dennisport 5 🌟Where We All Will Be 2 🌟The Teacher 4 🌟Notes For “The Barn in the Wild” 4🌟_________ 4🌟Our Town’s Monster 4 🌟A Haunted House is a Wheel Upon Which Some Are Broken 2.5 🌟It Won’t Go Away 4.5 🌟Notes From the Dog Walkers 5 🌟Further Questions For The Somnambulist 2 🌟The Ice Tower 2 🌟The Society of the Monsterhood 3 🌟Her Red Right Hand 3 🌟It’s Against the Law yo Feed the Ducks 3.5 🌟The Thirteenth Temple 2.5 🌟As you can see, it’s a lot of mixed opinions. Some stories I really loved (Notes From the Dog Walkers was my absolute favourite) and then some stories I didn’t really understand or “get” which lead to a lower rating, but I still enjoyed the writing. Also, I really think the story “A Haunted House is a Wheel Upon Which Some Are Broken” had a lot of potential, but didn’t quite hit it for me on the execution. This was the choose your own adventure type story, but it felt like the only option was to choose what action lead to the page that came right after, so you basically just read it like a regular story. Anyways, adding up all the ratings and then averaging it out lead to a 3.5