Well At Least There's Some Nostalgia...

TITLE: Unmemory
AUTHOR: Krista DeMeester
PUBLISHER: Tallhat Press
PUBLISHING DATE: 2018

FROM GOODREADS: An original, 9,000-word short story by Kristi DeMeester, with 10 illustrations by Yves Tourigny. A university student attempts to track down the briefly-glimpsed Christmas film which traumatized her as a child.


MY THOUGHTS: So this is a "chapbook" that was included in the Night Worms Horror Subscription box, Christmas edition which I bought as a treat for surviving the fiasco of "the horror box which shall not be named."  While I loved that it featured Christmas, horror and cool illustrations, I think I'd have a hard time spending $15.00 on it so I'm glad it was included with some other. For real, it took me 1/2 hour to read and that was also while I was watching the Steelers self destruct or it might have went faster.  And while I love short story collections, it's odd because short stories don't really work for me.  I need more information people!  

But anyway, enough ranting.  When Ashleigh was a young child, she sneaked down into a neighbor's basement and saw a horrifying scene on the TV of an evil Santa sticking a blond kid in his sack and the kid crying for his mom.  Not having much exposure due to her bible-thumping mother, this scene haunts Ashleigh for years to come.  Fast forward to her college days and now Ashleigh wants to do a paper on this movie, but she doesn't know its name.  Her quest to find it leads to some quick sex with her professor (really?), an encounter with an odd woman and a videotape (see nostalgia).  

This story was fine and the woman with the tape VERY weird.  The ending was decent but other than that, I don't know what to say.  Oh, the artwork was great!  I have heard some wonderful things about DeMeester and own another one of her books.  I do want to read more from her because I know she is raved about as a wonderful woman horror writer.  However, I could take of leave "Unmemory." 

RATING: 3 PAWS