Review: In the Tall Grass

In the Tall Grass by Stephen King
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

As I have stated in a previous review, I classify horror stories into two categories: mind-game horror (psychological, paranormal, etc) and blood, guts, and gore horror (dismemberment, slasher stuff, etc).

This book short story reminded me of The Ruins at first. Both stories start out with the mind-game horror (which I like). As In the Tall Grass goes on, it gets tedious with the constant repetition of limericks and gory descriptions. As the story goes on, it falls into the blood, guts, and gory category (not my favorite). In a total coincidence, I also made reference in the previous review about sensitivity with my eyes. Once again, I find myself reading about foreign objects finding their way into an eye. I'm not exactly sure how I find myself constantly reading books back to back with similar themes, but it seems I manage to do it constantly. This story also explores cannibalism.

The further I got into the story, the less I felt compelled to finish it. If this had been a full length novel, I probably would have put it down and came back to it at a later time. I only finished it because it was a short story.

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