At Home With the Horrors: 14 Chilling Tales

Sammy Scott is a rising voice in contemporary horror, known for crafting stories that are as unsettling as they are imaginative. In At Home With the Horrors: 14 Chilling Tales, he turns everyday settings into landscapes of dread, pulling readers into worlds where something sinister is just beneath the surface.

Reviews of short story collections are usually unsatisfying, but here are my thoughts of the first four stories in the collection:

"What We Have Here" - Scott wastes no time scaring the crap out of the reader with this story of a marital communication failure of epic proportions. The things that happen to Emily and Elliott in this story was like a twisted Twilight Zone episode fed through a body horror meat grinder. The less you know the better. Read this story.

"Theresa" - Newlywed Theresa is shattered when her husband Ray is killed in an act of workplace violence until she hears from him beyond the grave. The catch? He’s calling from the day he was murdered. Can Theresa use this temporal time loop to save her man? Depressing, but effective, story. Would be a great Black Mirror episode.

"Blackbird" - Molly is seeing a shrink because she misses her dead mother so much. As you can imagine, she’s excited at the idea of participating in a new kind of psychotherapy where drugs and hypnosis can send Molly into a dream state to have conversations with her mom while unconscious. After a few sessions, Molly begins to wonder if her weekly reunions with mom are a dream placebo or something truly supernatural. Another rattling winner of a story with a tidy twist ending.

"The Sisters" - Andrea is a home health care nurse assigned to care for an Alzheimer’s patient named Delores. Before starting the gig, Andrea receives a briefing about Delores’ creepy and cruel sister, Edna. It’s quite a backstory. Delores is convinced her dead sister is haunting her, and damned if the author didn’t create another great final-page surprise.

You get the idea. The quality of the 14 stories never fades. Sammy Scott is a modern-day Rod Serling who has mastered the art of twist endings that land every damn time. This may be the best single-author horror short story collection since Stephen King’s Night Shift.

At Home with the Horrors is available for free on Kindle Unlimited or just pay for it on Amazon. It’s really something special. Get it HERE.