Wehunt's brand of horror sneaks up on you in a fashion that feels almost languid, lush with gorgeous prose and striking images, and then when the uncanny truly slips in--or hits you over the head in some few cases--the shift is all the more powerful. That's not to say that the moves into the uncanny are unearned or unwelcome; whether they come early or late in any given story, sneaking up on the reader or feeding themselves out as the fabric of a story little piece by little piece, the little drifts of horror are the very backbone of this collection. A few of the stories kept me up later than I should have stayed up, just because I knew what a bad idea it might be to fall asleep with them in my head.

The stand-outs here, for me, were "Greener Pastures" (the title story), "Onanon", "October Film Haunt: Under the House", and "A Thousand Hundred Years". At a different time, I think I'd have listed "Beside me Singing in the Wilderness" as another favorite. And while some few of the stories didn't land quite so well for me, or felt a little too ambiguous/abstract in their wrap-up for me to ultimately want to revisit them, the stand-outs more than made up for those few.

Absolutely recommended. ( )

Review coming soon on scifiandscary.com ( )

Definitely a creepy one to listen to in the car, but Areg and I kind of felt like the lack of explanation at the end was more of a let down than a left-us-hanging suspense.

(I'm totally making up that "read" date--all I remember is it was this year.) ( )

I love short stories and I like weird fiction but for some reason this book didn't work for me. It's true that I did like one of the stories ("Greener Pastures") and there were another couple I enjoyed, but in most of the cases the stories didn't grab me at all. ( )

Stories weren’t exactly “horror,” but they were different. Didn’t really draw my attention. Not quite what I was expecting. ( )