Scary Stories: A Collection of Horror- Volume 5

By: Billy Wells

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

If you like Twilight Zone, Night Gallery, Outer Limits, One Step Beyond, Thriller, Serials with Surprise Endings, and stories with a plot, Billy Wells Horror is for you. Billy Wells Horror's average review rating for all horror collections is 4.3! Twelve stories from the warped mind of Billy Wells. Scary Stories-Volume 5 is the eighth collection of short stories mostly in the horror genre with surprise endings by Billy Wells. Please be aware that some of these offerings are quite gruesome and not for those readers whose parents did not let them watch scary movies and TV shows as a child. You should not read this book If: 1. at bedtime when you are alone. 2. If you believe in ghosts, goblins, or the Loch Ness monster. 3. during the full moon, particularly when the wolfbane blooms. 4. around a campfire after dark in a dense forest. 5. if the news reported a deranged maniac escaped from the local asylum. 6. if you have rats in the cellar or bats in your belfry. 7. if you think something from another planet has landed on earth. 8. if limbs being hacked off make you queasy. 9. if you believe a boogeyman lives in your closet. 10. if you live in close proximity to Transylvania or the Black Lagoon. These are the stories in this book: SOMETHING IN THE WELL: Jules has no choice but to go to the well where a demon granted a wish that saved his father’s life for a price. SOMEONE TO KILL: Brent has a butcher knife and he's looking for someone to kill on a lonely street tonight. GRANDPA: The zombie apocalypse has begun and Grandpa is near death in the next room. THE PARTY: A man crashes a Halloween party mysteriously held in a dilapidated mansion unoccupied for decades. THE FEUD: After twelve years of truce between two feuding families, Jasper Stump is missing and a beast is devouring people in the woods. THE TOASTER: The City of Baltimore appropriates funds to move Edgar Allen Poe's gravesite to a new mausoleum. SHADY REST: A rehabilitated psychopath, who inherited millions, leaves the asylum with eight friends willing to share her sprawling mansion. THE LOSER: A disillusioned wife regrets marrying her loser husband who fathered two pathetic dolts and fantasizes how great life would be without them. NIGHT VISITORS: A horror writer fears the torturers he created in his stories will come for him one dark night. LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT: Two young lovers infatuated with one another begin to see imperfections as their wedding day approaches. THE JOKER: An author plans to use the comedic M.O. of the way a real serial killer staged his victims in his next novel. THE VAMPIRE KILLER: A man claims the iconic rock star he killed with a wooden stake was a vampire not a man.

Poor virtual voice narration

The short stories are good, not great, but good. The writing could be better. It seemed like they were written by high school literature students.
The virtual voice narration needs to be improved. Very flat and monotone. Many words mispronounced and abbreviations were read as words. Example- ME for medical examiner was read as the word “me”. Took a minute to realize what some of them actually were.