Horror, Humor, and Heroes by Jim Bernheimer review

I really love short stories. Good short stories, at any rate, but the stories in this collection just fell a little flat for my tastes. It was consistently reviewed well by its readers, which is why I decided to give it a chance in the first place.

Short stories need to have a good amount of OOMPH to make them memorable or enjoyable-- the format keeps the writer from delving too much into things like character development, so there has to be a little something else to make the story palatable. These? ....they just didn't much do it for me. Adventurers Beware and Confessions of a D-List Supervillian were my two favorites, but the latter was still in chapter format, so it was probably less a short story and more of a novella. Everything else just seemed to lack development, even for a short story.

/ [Ms. Steel]

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