I'm impressed. I don't get impressed easily, so let's let that tell you how much I liked this series. They are short reads, so I was able to get about five under my belt this week alone. The crypt-keeper and his friends have been out of print since the 50's, but gained a HUGE following in the 90's when HBO brought them to the small screen. I was pretty young when the series came out and so I didn't much like being grossed out so much. LOL Now, I'm game for quite a bit of gore.
This series is a great reintroduction to the franchise. Like I said before, many horror books are good for trying to be scary and missing the mark. These are not those at all. I was totally freaked out!
The horrifics are spruced up a notch because they tie in to very real themes:
- There's the story of the slumlord who lets his tenant freeze to death.
- The crooner who summons a demon to help him win Idol.
- The backwards story of the real "paradise" suicide bombers may wind up in.
- The poor chap who lets his online persona mix a little too closely with his real life.
As for the humor and puns, which is also a great staple in Tales from the Crypt history, it is there as well. As I suspected, the Diary of a Stinky Dead Kid parody was adorably ghoulish, and that volume also had a pretty awesome Twilight spoof called Dielight.
There aren't any over-the-top sexual themes or the like, but I'm sure there are some that probably find the books to be gruesome or racy due to the murder scenes. However, the redeeming quality of these stories is very much like that of classic folktales. The "victims" in these stories are always vindicated and the bad guys always get their comeuppance. I really did enjoy this series and will be adding it to my horror files. I believe they will draw in tons of readers who like chills and thrills.
Check out the series website at: http://www.papercutz.com/tc/tc.html
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