Short Review: A mixed bag from writers who have all done better work than this.
The first of these yearly attempts at horror stories has as the theme parodies of more familiar works (or not, in one case)
Story by Mike Allred
This is a parody of Little Shop of Horrors (what, you guessed?), where the plant ends up looking and acting like Homer. There are a few good jokes and a suitably apocalyptic ending, but nothing special.
Story by Jeff Smith
Now this is just silly. Moby Dick isn't even a proper horror novel, for gods sake! It's given the once .over in a story that seems a lot shorter, despite taking up the same number of pages.
Story by James Robinson
This is a parody of the horror movie Cat People, and my appreciation of it is probably hampered by the fact that I've never seen Cat People. Still, any skilled writer can overcome that, any James Robinson is not just any skilled writer. This is scary in the plot, and hilarious in the incidentals. So why did it come form the "straight" writer?
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