Access Waking The Dead And Other Horror Stories Narrated By Yvette Tan Shown In Hardcover

of me wondered if what they said about tikbalangs was true, that it wasn't only their heads that were proportioned like a horse's.
"

now I'm hooked Fear is only a step away, . .

A shadow falls, A shape in the window,
A sound at the door, The dead have risen.
This book collects ten short stories of
horror, tragedy and the things in between
from the terrifying imagination of
awardwinning fictionist Yvette Tan.


Are you ready to wake the dead

"Tan is a consummate storyteller her voice, rich and confident, reassures us for a moment that all is well, before slowly revealing exquisite horrors.
Every story in this collection is worth your while, evoking flavors of the Filipino city and countryside, serving to blur the twilit gap between the real and the unseen.
"
Dean Francis Alfar
author of the The Kite of Stars
and Other Stories
and Salamanca Branding a story as "horror" is a promise, and the promise can set a storyteller writer, filmmakerup for failure.
You'll have to contend with consumer expectations, If you promise me horror, you better make sure I will be

scared, or at the very least, creeped out.


BUT I have realized that most stories that stop people from going to the bathroom in the middle of the night do not scare me.
And the stories that people find boring are the ones that won't let me sleep, I've been disappointed so many times with stories that purport to be horror but bore me to tears, so I stop expecting to be scared.
All I hope for is solid storytelling and beautiful language,

Walking the Deaddid not creep me out, but the stories made me sad, thoughtful, excited.
They evoked a response, and they kept me reading, Of the stories, "Delivering the Goods" stayed with me the longest, I loved the confidence in the voice, the subtle horror, the sadness, I wanted to know more about the main character, I'm still thinking of him now,

This book kept me cozy as I read in my favorite place in my bed, under the sheets.
That's good enough for me,

This was an easy and entertaining read, though the stories didn't scare me as I hoped it would.
There were a few stories that resounded to me, particularly The Bridge, Stella for Star, and Kulog.
I love the author's writing style it was very easy to relate to and enjoy, Im not fond of horror, or speculative fiction in general, And its quite a shame because I think the spec fics Ive read are wellwritten, but I cant appreciate them enough because I just cant feel them.
So from time to time, I push myself to read a spec fic book, hoping it would impress me.
Fortunately, it does several times, Unfortunately, not in this one,

The stories in this anthology are neat, but none of them horrified me in any way.
But of course, a writing is more than just its genre, There are other aspects to appreciate in Tans writing, Although I find the settings not vivid enough, the character descriptions are beautiful, And the political overtones in The Bridge are particularly impressive, It's one of the instances when I really devoured a horror book, The stories in this collection are all wellwritten, I am not really a fan of scifi, fantasy genre especially supernatural or horror books, However, it is always fascinates me to read this genre because of my belief that it is not a horror book if it does not scare me.
Much like: what's the use of a romance novel if it will not make you dreamy if not feel in love with the story or sometimes with the characters

But this book did: IT MADE ME SCARED.


One particular story is the tiyanak with Tan's direct approach in storytelling that you would like to perhaps see in the sanitized version of Edgar Samar.
Here, that gruesome and scary child creature is bared in its rawness: fierce and unforgiving,

My favorite story though is the hideous kapre that had a soft heart to the brave little battered yet innocent child.
Your heart will bleed not for the child but for the kapre and that's a spin that only talented authors can pull off.
The reason is that we hate kapres because of how they look but here it's like the Beast falling for Bella but in this case, Bella is a child and there is no romance between them.


I did not like that people still picture the Marcoses as evil, Let's learn from the past but let's leave them in peace now, I have no lost love for any of them but it is just becoming too tiring for me.
Let's demonize the succeeding ones and I am sure there are so many negative things that can be written about them.


Overall, I really liked this book, A lot better than Eliza Victoria's sitelinkA Bottle of Storm Clouds: Storiesso why oh why did you let it win in the poll over this book, Jzhun This book is marketed as a collection of horror stories so it was a let down that there were stories here that are anything but horror.


There were hits and misses in this book, I have to say that I did enjoy the stories that revolve around Filipino Mythology, specifically:
The Bridge
Stella for Star
Kulog
Waking the Dead

"Daddy" is a good short story that tackles grief and loss.
It seems like a personal story from the author,

"The Child Abandoned" is a good bit of folklore that ties myth and religion together.
I like how the last story, "Sidhi", ties in together with this first story, However, "Sidhi" is just all over the place,

"Stars" had an interesting concept but it can benefit if the story was fleshed out more.
"Delivering the goods" is a good look into atrocities possibly happening in real life, However, it actually feels more tame than the horrors of our reality,

"Boss, ex" felt more of an attempt at scifi and, together with "Fade to Nothing," reads more like a story about human behavior and relationships.
Not really a fan of these last two, I enjoyed this collection of short stories, Each story was wellwritten and felt full, Although I wouldn't say each one I could consider as a "horror" story, a few fit the bill and completed its mission of being eerily creepy, even grotesque but some felt far from the genre.
What I appreciate the most is that each story had relationships as the overarching foundation of the main plot which made it more relatable and easy to read.
This ended too soon. .