A pretty fun anthology/zine with vampire stories.

I got a whole batch of these thanks to the newsletter by Josie Jaffrey, so excited because I just love good horror/scary stories/stories featuring supernatural stuff. Especially when they are short stories~ I decided to just start with the very first zine. It helps I was in the mood for vampires, haha. I had fun reading it, it was an interesting blend of new vampire lore and very old and very known vampire lore, I just love it when we get some new things to add to the existing lore. There was only one story I didn’t read for my own safety/mental health, thanks for the TW.

My favourite story would be the first one. It was also quite sad (especially the ending), but I loved the MC and reading about how he has been a vampire for very long. My least favourite story was A Dramatic Gesture, it was about chickens? A raven? Something else? It was just such a weird/odd story and I still don’t see what it has to do with the vampire stuff the rest of the book had. The ending was very much WTF.

I am not sure how I felt about the extras, I mean the interview with one of my favourite authors, Gail Carriger was just awesome and I really loved reading that one, but I just didn’t care for the reviews at the end?

Here are the ratings for each story. As you can see mostly I liked them. Anthologies/zines are always a bit hit/miss, I am happy that this one turned out to be quite nice.

+Enduring Wrecks by Chris Durston: **** stars
+Living Underground by Josie Jaffrey: ***1/2 stars
+A Dramatic Gesture by Matthew MacLachlan: * star
+A Little Drop of Blood Goes a Long Way: Skipped, thanks for the trigger warning, especially now a story about suicide would be a bad idea to read (read this zine just the day after I heard my grandma died and with all the family stuff going on… not a good time).
+ Something like Absolution by Rebecca Crunden: ***1/2 stars
+Another Interview with the Vampire: **1/2 stars