Walking After Midnight: Tales for Halloween

By: Evan Camby

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

Named one of Suspense Magazine's Best Books of 2014, Evan Camby's "Walking After Midnight: Tales for Halloween" is a collection of six terrifying horror stories guaranteed to send chills up your spine. Read them by a bonfire on a chilly autumn night, or under a blanket by candle light. Whatever you do, don't look behind you.

"Hayride"
The Schultz family's outing to an apple orchard goes terribly awry on the hayride from Hell.

"Hat Man"
Graduate student Bernice is plagued by night terrors. As the horrible visions begin to invade her waking hours, she must fight for her sanity...and her safety.

"A Good Samaritan"
Newlyweds Jake and Rita Wechsler take a journey down winding country roads in the Hudson River Valley, where danger lurks at every turn.

"Into the Abyss" A group of young girls decide to play with a Ouija board and discover that it might be more than just a board game.

"Walking After Midnight"
When childhood friends Teddy and Joseph decide to revisit one of their old childhood haunts, the old town cemetery, they stumble upon true evil and must rely on each other to survive.

"Trick & Treat" Halloween enthusiast Shelley decorates and buys candy for the big night, hoping for lots of Trick-or-Treaters, but she quickly learns the meaning of the phrase "Be careful what you wish for."

A couple of potentially good stories.

The biggest drawback was the Virtual Voice. It struggled in many places making it unnatural and breaking the immersion.

Consider me a fan of Evan Camby

I did not know what to expect from this collection, as Evan Camby is a new-to-me author. Before reading this book, I tried reading another author's horror short story collection, and it was terrible. Walking After Midnight: Tales for Halloween was recommended to me as a suggested book, so I went for it.

Long story short, I am now following Evan Camby on Goodreads, and I will be reading more by this author ASAP. I mean this as the highest compliment, but Evan Camby does not write like your typical indie author. Evan has a seasoned voice and is a highly effective storyteller. I felt like I was reading peak Stephen King. I went in with low expectations, and I was blown away by the strength of this collection. Every story is a slow burn that ends with a punch.

My favorite story in the collection was "Walking After Midnight".

Good stories

Enjoyed but the 2 nd story is a bit choppy. Could of been the ai reader.

Great stories!

This has been a set of well written stories. I am looking forward to the second title.

A good shiver fest

The stories were very engaging, however The narration left a lot to be desired. The narration was stilted and at many times words were mispronounced..

The crappy AI voice recording.

Crappy AI reading. Hire a human being because this AI really is terrible. No inflection that doesn’t sound like a robot. Awkward pauses that disrupt the story.