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Bones
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This book was sent to me by the author in exchange for an honest review.
Bones is a collection of four stories (actually 5 if you count the very short but amazing story at the end). All of the stories deal with death in a different manner, and each one is as chilling as the next. At times I felt like I could almost smell some foul, rotten thing coming for me in my bedroom as I read.
Most of the stories read as if they are a warning about what lurks beyond the grave. The dead are not happy in Cull's stories, and often they return to communicate with the people they left behind. In the first story "Did You Forget About Me?" a man returns to his childhood home after his abusive father passes away and leaves it to him. His sister accompanies him, and as they spend the night in the house sinister memories become all too real for both of them.
"Hope and Walker" is about a young girl who lives in a funeral parlor and enjoys drawing the dead after each service. One day a young boy is found murdered in her small town, and as she draws him something very unexpected happens.
"The Trade" is about an evil presence that lurks in the woods outside a young boy's home. Dead animals start showing up on the back doorstep in the middle of the night. The seven-year-old protagonist thinks these grisly and torn apart animals are an offering, but the creature leaving them there intends for them to be something else.
"Knock and You Will See Me" is a haunting story about a woman who buries her father, but then starts to receive notes from him around her house. Convinced that she may have heard him knocking as he was being buried she tries to dig him up, but when she is stopped by the police, her father is forced to find a way out of the grave on his own.
Lastly, there is a delightful little snippet of a story called "The Rambling Man". It was the perfect the end to a very solid book of stories. I highly recommend picking this collection up. Cull writes about death and grief in a way that starts quietly and ends in a terrify climax. All of his stories build in tension as you read, and all of them are sincerely creepy and unsettling. Somehow Cull manages to make death even more terrifying.
Bones is a collection of four stories (actually 5 if you count the very short but amazing story at the end). All of the stories deal with death in a different manner, and each one is as chilling as the next. At times I felt like I could almost smell some foul, rotten thing coming for me in my bedroom as I read.
Most of the stories read as if they are a warning about what lurks beyond the grave. The dead are not happy in Cull's stories, and often they return to communicate with the people they left behind. In the first story "Did You Forget About Me?" a man returns to his childhood home after his abusive father passes away and leaves it to him. His sister accompanies him, and as they spend the night in the house sinister memories become all too real for both of them.
"Hope and Walker" is about a young girl who lives in a funeral parlor and enjoys drawing the dead after each service. One day a young boy is found murdered in her small town, and as she draws him something very unexpected happens.
"The Trade" is about an evil presence that lurks in the woods outside a young boy's home. Dead animals start showing up on the back doorstep in the middle of the night. The seven-year-old protagonist thinks these grisly and torn apart animals are an offering, but the creature leaving them there intends for them to be something else.
"Knock and You Will See Me" is a haunting story about a woman who buries her father, but then starts to receive notes from him around her house. Convinced that she may have heard him knocking as he was being buried she tries to dig him up, but when she is stopped by the police, her father is forced to find a way out of the grave on his own.
Lastly, there is a delightful little snippet of a story called "The Rambling Man". It was the perfect the end to a very solid book of stories. I highly recommend picking this collection up. Cull writes about death and grief in a way that starts quietly and ends in a terrify climax. All of his stories build in tension as you read, and all of them are sincerely creepy and unsettling. Somehow Cull manages to make death even more terrifying.
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