Review: Terror Train

From the mind of A. Henry Keene The Terror Train is wonderfully twisted anthology of train inspired horror short stories and poems by various authors. From the departure call we are brought into a world where demonic steel dragons ride the rail carrying cursed souls to suffer through the fates in store for them. You will spends hours absorbed in each story and poem as they conger up vivid imagery of ghost doomed to relive a nightmare of their own creation, murderous creatures and demon-possessed trains that feed on human souls. As you continue your ride you find your senses permeated the sights, sounds and smells of the horrors that wait in shadows of your mind.

The dialog that the characters in a story speak can be a big part of the reading experience and in Terror Train the sometimes harsh and even vulgar language just adds to richness of the situations that these seemingly ordinary people find themselves thrust into either by chance, a bad decision or twist of fate.

As the theme of the book implies trains a often the main characters in these storie and poems. Some of the best examples are the living, demonic train in Lonely Train a Comin' that infused itself with its past victim only to uses them to attack current victims or the evil Lilith that consumes its victims to power it on its journeys.

A. Henry Keene & Kista Clark Grabowski did a great job of editing this book to keep the readers imagination reeling from beginning to end. The way they mix these stories and poems you on edge not know whether the next train will take them to find a lost love or claim your soul to power it to travel on to find its next victim.

I would highly recommend this to anyone that is a fan of anthology series, such as, Tales from the dark side, Creepshow, The whisler, enjoys reading the likes of Edger Allen Poe or just hearing scary stories around a camp fire. If you fit into any of those categories then Terror Train you will find yourself reading and re-reading each entry in this thrilling book.