Suffer The Children: By Kelley Armstrong Dark, eerie, and disturbing...I loved it!!!My favourite author has done it yet again :)Pipers: By Christopher Golden The Pied Piper of Hamlin meets Stephen King's Pet Sematary, fantastic!A Bad Season For Necromancy: By David Liss So good I wish it was a full length novel!Alive Day: By Jonathan Maberry This tale was ok, I am not a fan of military story's. I would have preferred more of the "ancient horror" and less military stuff. This is the only reason I did not give this book a 5 star rating. 3.75/5 OverallFour authors were asked to write novellas based on this sentence: “A stranger comes to town, offering to raise the townsfolk’s dearly departed from the dead—for a price.” Despite having the same inspiration, each of these stories is very different from the others, which makes it a great collection.Suffer the Children - Kelley Armstrong 3.75/5 - a nice story of a small isolated village in Canada, historical period unknown. Pretty much what one's mind might conjure on its own from the inspiration sentence given, so not incredibly original, but it had some nice twists and good characters.Pipers by Christopher Golden - 3.75/5 - I've never read anything by Golden before but I like his style, so I might check out some of his other books. Nice twist right at the end of this novella.A Bad Season For Necromancy - David Liss - 4.5/5 - what a pleasant surprise this was. 18th century England is one of my favorite settings, and Liss has just the right style for an authentic feel. Loved it.Alive Day - Jonathan Maberry - 2.5/5 - well now I know not to read any of Maberry's Joe Ledger series. This one was not up my alley at all, too much military. It also deviated fairly widely from the "inspiration sentence". I did enjoy the historical bits.
What do You think about Four Summoner's Tales (2013)?
Four different tales of the dead summoned to rise. All three very good.
—Jacksonmyo
I only read the Kelley Armstrong novella
—atalford
