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Stories We Tell After Midnight Volume 2 Kindle Edition

4.5 out of 5 stars 42 ratings

As a deadly scourge overwhelms the continent, four survivors race to find a last exit out of Australia.

Up in the attic, a bedtime story outlives its storyteller.

A city boy visits his country cousins and stumbles on a terrifying family secret.

From a film set in the Arizona desert, to an overgrown rambling old house in the Florida swamps, to the dusty streets of a small Mexican town, the stories in this volume plunge the reader into the shadows of a world almost forgotten by modern fables of cold science and bright sunlight. They are the brushed over voices who call a warning to those who would comfort themselves in the thought that monsters aren’t real, and those things can’t happen here. Stories We Tell After Midnight Volume 2 offers up tales of revenge, of hunger, and of the horror that stalks you just beyond the glow of your cell phone light, but only to those who dare turn the page…

*Table of Contents*
Bedtime Tales ~ Nicola Lombardi / trans. J. Weintraub
Baby Gray ~ Gregory L. Norris
Iron Teeth ~ Jude Reid
Victoria ~ Jay Caselberg
Family Line ~ Michele Tracy Berger
Primary Manifestations ~ Laura E. Price
Cameraman ~ Joe Scipione
Seek, Don't Hide ~ Liam Hogan
Hey Diddle Diddle ~ Jeff Samson
The Cleaning Lady ~ Samantha Bryant
Whisper Wood ~ Eddie Generous
Last Shot ~ Tim Jeffreys
False Confession ~ Joseph Rubas
The Curse of the Cucuy ~ Pedro Iniguez
The Cut-Mouth Woman and Me ~ Elizabeth Davis
(and I feel fine) ~ EJ Sidle
Mouths to Feed ~Solange Hommel
Red Rover, Red Rover ~ Larina Warnock
Cell Phone Lights ~ T.M. Starnes
Lamina ~ Eliza Master
The Terrible Teddies ~ Priya Sridhar
The Thing All These Relationships Have in Common Is You ~ DeAnna Knippling
Field Trip ~ J.L. Knight
The Bugs Come Out at Night ~ Mike Sullivan
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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B08G6W9R8R
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Crone Girls Press
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ October 1, 2020
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 1.9 MB
  • Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 299 pages
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1952388033
  • Page Flip ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Grade level ‏ : ‎ 12 and up
  • Book 2 of 4 ‏ : ‎ Stories We Tell After Midnight
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  • Reviewed in the United States on April 5, 2025
    5 stars
  • Reviewed in the United States on March 9, 2022
    Grabs you and just won't let go! Not that it matters.. You won't be able to put it down til the end and than wish for more! Thank you for an awesome read!
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  • Reviewed in the United States on November 9, 2020
    Brune has assembled a rich and varied set of stories here, some of them haunting, some of them terrifying, and some laugh out loud bizarre. (slight spoilers ahead)

    The anthology rightly opens with ‘Bedtime Tales’ by Nicola Lombardi about a grandmother preparing her grandchildren—and us—for oncoming nightmares.

    Gregory L. Norris’s ‘Baby Gray’ left me with a residual creepiness in the uncanny shape of an infant.

    ‘Iron Teeth’ by Jude Reid is gorgeously written and horrific, a brilliant exercise in tension and survival.

    ‘Victoria’ by Jay Caselberg brings you along on a disturbing jaunt into the London Underground with a man cursed with a headcold and a job to do.

    Michele Tracy Berger’s powerful ‘Family Line’ explores the price of freedom and offers a teasing glimpse of Anubis himself, all with a mastery of second person POV.

    Twisty ‘Primary Manifestations’ by Laura E. Price wanders the soul of a house and the family within.

    I loved the vintage vibe of ‘Cameraman’ by Joe Scipione in which a man succumbs to dreamy madness in the shape of a giant snake.

    ‘Seek, Don't Hide’ by Liam Hogan packs a gutpunch in just a few pages. This among other stories wonderfully shows how trauma makes for good horror.

    Following on its heels is ‘Hey Diddle Diddle’ by Jeff Samson. A denser read but with a similar, existential punch that shakes our place in the natural world.

    ‘The Cleaning Lady’ by Samantha Bryant is a clever, quick bite that confirms that toxic bosses exist even in the supernatural realm.

    ‘Whisper Wood’ by Eddie Generous is classic horror with great monsters and a cult that really needs to be written into novel form.

    Tim Jeffreys’s ‘Last Shot’ also offers a classic yarn, reminiscent of a Twilight Zone episode with a compelling love story.

    ‘False Confession’ by Joseph Rubas is a gritty, slight tale of ghostly revenge.

    Pedro Iniguez’s ‘The Curse of the Cucuy’ offers all the thrills of a slasher film.

    Hats off to Elizabeth Davis. Her story ‘The Cut-Mouth Woman and Me’ starts out with all the portent of ‘The Ring’ movies and becomes something wonderfully transcendent.

    The snappy dialogue and prose of ‘(and I feel fine)’ by EJ Sidle really gives this zombie apocalypse story its humanity.

    Solange Hommel’s tight little story ‘Mouths to feed’ is a dark gem that left a smile on my face.

    When I started ‘Red Rover, Red Rover’ by Larina Warnock I worried, “Oh, no, there’s a dog. Please don’t let him die.” Not to worry, Rover’s got a few tricks up his paw in this revenge tale.

    Set in a broken0down subway car, T.M. Starnes’s ‘Cell Phone Lights’ is a cinematic nailbiter with screenplay potential.

    ‘Lamina’ by Eliza Master is a short, shocking mind-bender that’s cleverly crafted.

    Priya Sridhar’s very surreal ‘The Terrible Teddies’ had me chuckling and glad my teenage days were behind me.

    ‘The Thing All These Relationships Have in Common Is You’ by DeAnna Knippling is a beauty. Even without mentioning Siouxsie Souix I would have savored all the sensory details and stayed for more. (Bonus points for naming a character Bela after mentioning Bauhaus.)

    If you love really good flash fiction, check out ‘Field Trip’ by J.L. Knight, which made me burst with laughter and appreciation.

    With ‘The Bugs Come Out at Night’, Mike Sullivan wraps this creepshow up with a juicy story about family strife and infestations.

    All in all, this was a solid anthology for those with a taste for the dark and surreal.
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  • Reviewed in the United States on January 10, 2021
    Rachel A. Brune has been putting out some amazing anthologies with her Crone Girls Press, and Stories We Tell After Midnight Volume 2 may be the best yet. My typical experience with anthologies is that they’re a mixed bag with stories I like or love, stories that fall flat, and stories I don’t finish. My enjoyment depends on how many lean toward the “like/loved” category, but it’s rare I don’t come across some of the other two types. With SWTAM2, there were no DNFs and only one entry that didn’t feel successful. But what really surprised me was how many I absolutely loved.

    I usually try and give my top three favorite stories a shout-out, but in this case, I couldn’t narrow it down to any less than five.

    Primary Manifestations by Laura E. Price is a haunted house story with an inventive and captivating structure and is an award-worthy piece of literary horror. Telling the multigenerational story of a family trapped by a house, it has Haunting of Hill House (Netflix version) vibes but is uniquely it’s own. Honestly, Price’s masterful writing knocked my socks off.

    The Cut-Mouth Woman and Me by Elizabeth Davis is an endearing tale of a friendship between a teen girl and a monster from an urban legend. Davis made me feel so much for both her characters that I was heartbroken when it came to an end both for its poignancy and because I wanted to read more.

    The Cleaning Lady by Samantha Bryant is a flash piece, telling the tale of the woman who has to clean up after a vampire (Dracula’s son?). Both humorous and tragic, it made every word count and delivered a lot in just a few pages.

    Iron Teeth by Jude Reid is a tale about what people will do to survive. With the subject matter of famine and cannibalism, a lot of authors would have taken us to a post-apocalypse, but Reid transports us back in history to a siege in Russia. With its harsh, wintery world and the children protagonists, it has a fairy-tale vibe but remains pure horror.

    Cameraman by Joe Scipione involves a struggling cameraman who gets his big break only to start seeing a monster through his lens. This story scratched my Twilight Zone itch with a character coming face to face with the inexplicable and being driven off the rails by it. What earned its place on this list though, was that it compelled me to keep thinking about it long after I finished it.

    But these are only the tip of the iceberg, and I could go on singing the praise of more stories from this collection of twenty-four, but I like to keep my reviews short.

    If Brune keeps delivering anthologies like these, it won’t be long until she’s considered one of the top editors in the business.
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  • Reviewed in the United States on January 8, 2024
    After-midnight nightclubs, nursery rhymes gone awry, dating while cannibalistic, becoming part of an all-too-real movie premiere—and more. Strong stories from flash to nearly novella. Stories are varied with one thing in common—all are excellent.
  • Reviewed in the United States on June 17, 2022
    This anthology had more dystopian stories than expected, which I enjoyed. Running the gamut from pure supernatural to potentially happening, there is a story for everyone.
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  • Reviewed in the United States on October 24, 2020
    A great collection of stories to read at this time of year.
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  • Andy Raff
    5.0 out of 5 stars Another solid anthology
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 19, 2022
    Short stories and flash fiction. Some real bangers. Better hit ratio than I normally find with horror collections. Easy to read, too. Worth your time.

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