Apple of My Eye by Amy Grech

Apple of My Eye by Amy Grech is a collection of thirteen short stories in the slasher style of horror. It has violence, sex, betrayal, revenge and more than a few people who should have known better. The characters are puppets on Grech’s strings and she puts them through stories of vengeance, entrapment and strange and deadly sex. Grech is delightfully crude in places and refuses to flinch from the nastier side of humanity in others.

My favorites of the collection are Rampart, a unique tale of a strange haunting, Ashes to Ashes, one of the tightest tales of the bunch, about devotion after death, and EV 2000, a tale twisting the old ideas of vampires and murder.

If you like fast, messy horror that makes you flinch this book is for you. Grech proves that the girls can play just as hard as the horror boys.