I loved Anthony’s A Zombie Holiday Trilogy and immediately wanted to read more of his stories.
You can read my reviews of those by clicking on my review page at the top of my blog.
Today’s stories don’t have zombies, but they do have a demonic treadmill, a haunted house, and vampires and werewolves that break tradition.
All were fun and all were scary.
Enjoy my reviews!
Killer Treads
My Review
Hey, look at that. A tread mill, like new, for only twenty bucks. What a steal.
He’s been meaning to get in shape, get rid of that spare tire around his middle.
He should have slowed down, caught the warning signs that something was seriously wrong with the deal. Not been so impulsive.
Alas, it’s too late now, and the deal is going to cost him much more than cold hard cash.
This story teaches you to never buy something when the deal seems too good to be true.
Kind of fun, kind of gory, and I liked it.
3 Stars
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Synopsis
A short story about a man who buys a twenty dollar treadmill and finds out too late that the machine has a taste for blood.
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A Haunted House Tale
My Review
They must have seen the movies, read the books. Yet these five friends think it won’t happen to them.
Clearly something will and does.
The legend is, if you survive the night, you receive untold riches.
The temptation lures them in.
There’s safety in numbers, right?
Then it all goes south and everyone is scrambling to get out.
I never get tired of these stories. I was thinking of Scream, the movie, where they go over all of the rules of what not to do.
If these characters had any sense, they’d know not to go in that house, but then I wouldn’t have had such fun reading what happens to them.
3 Stars
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Synopsis
A short story about five students on Halloween night who discover the secrets and terrors of the town’s most infamous haunted house.
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Daylight Vampires and Sunrise Werewolves
My Review
Three great things in one story.
It’s a supernatural western setting.
There are vampires that hunt by day.
And werewolves that shift at sunrise.
All of these combined to make one rollicking bloody read.
Saltwater Junction, Northern California.
The night of the full moon.
Tomorrow they come. Like they do once every year.
The sheriff gathers the town folk and they get the town ready for the morning.
The werewolves will attack at dawn.
The vampires soon after.
This year will be different.
This year they will win.
No more men lost to the werewolves.
No more women and children bled out by the vampires.
If…. If the people do what the sheriff says. If they stand and fight. If…
I loved this idea. Instead of the moon and darkness being these monsters strengths, it’s sunrise and daylight.
You’d think it would be easier for the people to fight them, easier to survive.
Not so. The werewolves are numerous, mindless, feeding machines. The vampires are cunning, swift, and organized.
Right from the opening scene when the sheriff had a shootout with the Lizard brothers, I knew I was in for something different.
I’d love to see this as a movie. I almost could as the author did an excellent job describing the scenes and characters. My wish is he’d write more about this town and it’s characters. It ended too soon for me.
5 Stars
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Synopsis
A Western short story about a town called Saltwater Junction besieged by creatures of the night who now do their stalking in the bright light of day.
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And this just in! Anthony has a giveaway on Goodreads. You can win a print copy of his brand new release, AWOL, on tour this week. You can catch me review on January 10th.
Go HERE to enter.
Synopsis
Imagine that you are a character in a story.
You have a home.
You have a life.
You have it all.
Then suddenly you wake up alone and afraid in a cold, dark place. Somehow you find your courage and your voice. When you ask for help, words light up on a wall in the darkness. You read them and realize you are in the creative center of your author’s mind. Instead of rescuing you, the author asks you for help.
This book is about the journey of that character, as he moves from story to story desperately trying to find his home.
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Author Anthony Renfro
Anthony Renfro lives in Apex, North Carolina. He is a reader, writer, runner, husband, father, and stay at home dad – one of the toughest jobs anyone could ever do. He was born in Bristol, Tennessee, and is a graduate of UNC-Greensboro.
You can find him at many spots on the web, but if you really need to find his center in the social media storm it would be at his blog, apoetryjourney.wordpress.com.
Now reach out, just beyond the light, right into that big black space, and let him take your hand on a journey into cold dark places. You will be scared, and you may even be terrified, but in the end you might just find you liked the ride.
Find him on:
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Thanks for the heads up on the GR giveaway! I’ve gotten a couple of great reads that way!
When you put ‘trilogy of horror’ it reminded me of a movie called “Trilogy of Terror” that I saw when I was younger. One of the stories was about a little possessed witch doctor figurine…scared me for DAYS! *lol*
I remember that one. I loved Karen Black and the way she was waiting for her mother at the end. A classic that scared the pee out of me the first time I watched it. LOL
Thanks again. I think I might have to try and expand that one short story. I think someone else said that as well. Love the zombie pic.
I hope you do. It has so much more to be told. You have three things I’d like to know about. I’d like to know how it began – visit the beginning. I’d like to know more about the werewolves, the men forced to be one. And I’d definitely like to know where the vamps came from, what they are.
I had to put up that pic. Too fun!
I remember that movie too and scare the bejesus out of me!
Hello. mother. LOL I recently watched it again through Netflix. Just as scary again! The second movie was okay.