Name: It Waits in the Woods
Rating: 3.5 (4 reviews)
ISBN: 9781662518317

Josh Malerman

It Waits in the Woods

Some chilling campfire tales ring too true to ignore. For one young woman, an urban legend calls her into the woods in a spine-tingling short story by the bestselling author of Bird Box.

The dense Michigan forest. Haunting wails. The clip-clop of demon hooves on a bridge to nowhere. It’s more than a tall tale to Brenda Jennings, whose sister disappeared in those woods one fateful night. Three years later, on a solo stakeout in the dark, Brenda goes in after her. She’s desperate for answers, and terrified to find what lies waiting on the other side of that bridge.

Josh Malerman’s It Waits in the Woods is part of Creature Feature, a collection of devilishly creepy stories that tingle the spine and twist the mind. They can be read or listened to in one petrifying sitting

Creature Feature Collection (#3)

It Waits in the Woods 

This is story 3 of Amazon’s short story collection Creature Feature. I love that these releases include the kindle and the audible version for each.

Malerman has been an auto buy author for me since Bird Box, but man does his mind work in mysterious ways. In this story, the main character is obsessed with film making, and much like with basketball in Daphne, that obsession and the description of it can often overpower the other things that are going on. I personally think he uses this technique to ground his characters in a very personal trait, but it’s hit or miss, and this one was borderline.

Brenda was supposed to be paying attention to her sister, but she wasn’t. So when she disappears, her parents blame her. Three years later, old campfire stories don’t sound so crazy anymore. Brenda has to know. She has to make sure. A bridge in the woods that moves? Why not.

C. J. Daley 

This is story 3 of Amazon’s short story collection Creature Feature. I love that these releases include the kindle and the audible version for each.

Malerman has been an auto buy author for me since Bird Box, but man does his mind work in mysterious ways. In this story, the main character is obsessed with film making, and much like with basketball in Daphne, that obsession and the description of it can often overpower the other things that are going on. I personally think he uses this technique to ground his characters in a very personal trait, but it’s hit or miss, and this one was borderline.

Brenda was supposed to be paying attention to her sister, but she wasn’t. So when she disappears, her parents blame her. Three years later, old campfire stories don’t sound so crazy anymore. Brenda has to know. She has to make sure. A bridge in the woods that moves? Why not.

Personally a 4/5* for me.

It Waits in the Woods

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