{"id":8277,"date":"2015-11-06T13:09:08","date_gmt":"2015-11-06T18:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cemeterydanceonline.com\/?p=7138"},"modified":"2015-11-06T13:09:08","modified_gmt":"2015-11-06T18:09:08","slug":"review-childhood-fears-by-various","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cemeterydance.com\/extras\/review-childhood-fears-by-various\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: &#039;Childhood Fears&#039; by Various"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Childhood-Fears-JG-Faherty\/dp\/1619229862\/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1446607423&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=childhood+fears+samhain\" target=\"_blank\"><b><i>Childhood Fears\u00a0<\/i>by Various<\/b><\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Samhain Publishing\u00a0(October 2015)<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>306\u00a0pages, e-book $9.99, paperback $16.99<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Reviewed by Frank Michaels Errington<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-7139\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cemeterydance.com\/extras\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Fears-200x300.jpg?resize=200%2C300\" alt=\"Fears\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" \/>In May of 2015 Samhain Publishing released four new novellas exploring things that go bump in the night, the things that scared us as kids, and in many cases still frighten us as adults. Now, those four stories are available in a single volume called <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Childhood Fears<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong><i>Nightmare in Greasepaint<\/i><\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>, by L.L. Soares and G. Daniel Gunn.<\/strong> L.L. Soares is the Bram Stoker Award-winning author of the novel <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Life Rage<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. \u00a0G. Daniel Gunn is the author of the novel <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Destroyer of Worlds<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and the pseudonym for Daniel G. Keohane, a Bram Stoker-nominated author in his own right. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nightmare in Greasepaint<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> does not disappoint. The start of the story is more psychological horror, with a house bringing back memories of what happened to the protagonist as a child and what he\u2019d done, but as the story develops the tension builds, much like the climb to the top of a super-coaster, and then reaches incredible speeds as you plummet back to earth. A quick and satisfying read.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><i>The Bear Who Wouldn\u2019t Leave<\/i><\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>, by J.H. Moncrieff.<\/strong>\u00a0J.H. Moncrieff has been a professional writer all of her adult life, with a number of those years spent as a journalist tracking down snipers and canoeing through crocodile-infested waters. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Bear Who Wouldn&#8217;t Leave<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> preys on our childhood fears and manages to juggle three possible scenarios in a way that kept me guessing to the very end. Is it really Edgar, the teddy bear, doing all these bad things? Is it Josh&#8217;s step-father making it look like Edgar? Or is there something wrong with Josh himself? Although the idea of an evil teddy is not terribly new, and at times you could easily predict what might come next, the result still hits you in the face like a ton of bricks. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><i>Scarecrows,<\/i><\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong> by Christine Hayton.<\/strong>\u00a0Her introduction to the works of Edgar Allen Poe at age twelve hooked Christine Hayton on the horror genre and her attraction to the macabre continues to this day. <em>Scarecrows<\/em> was yet another enjoyable story in this quartet of novellas. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;Cathy isn&#8217;t in her bed and I can&#8217;t find her anywhere.&#8221;<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As a parent I find those words alone to be fear inducing. Although the story moves back and forth over a period of years in the late &#8217;60s, each chapter heading came with a note to let the reader know where they were in that scene. <em>Scarecrows<\/em> offers a solid twist and proves that truth is stranger than fiction.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><i>Winterwood<\/i><\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong> by JG Faherty.<\/strong>\u00a0JG is a Bram Stoker Award and ITW Thriller Award finalist. He&#8217;s the author of five novels, seven novellas, and more than 50 short stories. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Winterwood<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> unleashes the monsters: Krampus the Holly King, the Wild Hunt, and Gryla, the Holly King&#8217;s wicked bride, the mother of the Yule Lads and the evil sister of Mother Earth.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Overall, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Childhood Fears<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is a solid read and accomplishes its goal in examining the things that scared us in our childhood and beyond. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Recommended.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Childhood Fears\u00a0by Various Samhain Publishing\u00a0(October 2015) 306\u00a0pages, e-book $9.99, paperback $16.99 Reviewed by Frank Michaels Errington In May of 2015 Samhain Publishing released four new novellas exploring things that go bump in the night, the things that scared us as kids, and in many cases still frighten us as adults. 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