Fourbodings: A Quartet of Uneasy Tales

Like one of those old films that put together a quartet of spooky tales, this book promises a dip into the same chills and thrills territory, though I’m unsure whether it fully delivers. There’s poor old Gerry who finds an apartment best left unrented; Vic, who can’t leave his friend Paul, to rest, but questions the accident that killed him on a dangerous road; Mary, who’s lived in the wilderness too long, her story leading us to question what’s most poisonous — the belladonna that grows or the man she once knew; and Bridget and Colin, who may have moved to a house with a dark secret. All leave the reader a little disorientated, questioning what is and isn’t there, but the stories also feel somewhat disjointed and show more incomplete, even though I imagine that’s intentional. show less

"Fourbodings: A Quartet of Uneasy Tales from Four Members of the Macabre" edited by Peter Crowther (2005, Cemetery Dance Publications) ISBN: 1-58767-090-9
Just a quick Table of Contents for this excellent collection of novellas:
"Langthwaite Road" by Simon Clark
"So Long Gerry" by Terry Lamsley
"In The Garden, Where Belladonna Grows" by Tim Lebbon
"Stumps" by Mark Morris