WHERE YOU LIVE is a horror collection that stirs emotions and provokes thought. These aren't simple riffs on overused horror motifs, rather they are tales examining this complex, confusing, often disturbing thing called "the human experience." McMahon's tight, precise prose cuts to the bone with surgical precision, laying out the common fears that plague all of us. Not to harp on the title overmuch, but these horrors don't live in dank caves or moldering, Gothic castles or moonlight cemeteries.

Reviewed by Lee Ashford for Readers' Favorite.“Where You Live” by Gary McMahon has been lauded by The Guardian as being “Firmly in the front ranks of the new wave of British horror”, and I didn’t see a thing that would make me refute that declaration. This book includes nineteen horrifying tales of the macabre, guaranteed to keep you awake at night… or at least have you sleeping with a light on. Gary McMahon has assembled a few tales from a previous limited edition anthology of his, added a numb...

Thoroughly frightening, often surrealistic and with a great deal to think about, Where You Live takes the reader into the frightening world of pure horror and dark fantasy. A school trip gone horribly wrong, scary, mythical sea creatures and the monstrous nature of all consuming love are just some of the horrors you will encounter in this book. Not only do these stories contain descriptions of hauntings, nightmarish apparitions and violently insane individuals, it also takes an in-depth look at

Where You Live by Gary McMahon is a collection of short stories that is guaranteed to give you the heebie-jeebies. It's thought-provoking, intelligent, scary as hell, well-written, and pretty much everything you want when reading a collection of horror short stories. I was thoroughly impressed by how imaginative and creative the tales were ... Definitely worthy a read, especially if you're in the mood to be frightened.

In 2012, Gray Friar Press published a very limited (100 copy) run of Gary McMahon’s collection It Knows Where You Live. This isn’t so much a reissue as a companion piece. It features most of the previously published stories as well as seven others, five of which are original to this collection.McMahon’s writing is set firmly in the quiet horror camp, focusing on atmosphere and character rather than gore and shock factor. The horror stems from deep-seated fears and anxieties inherent in the human...

Where You Live is a varied collection of short stories by Gary McMahon. McMahon is an award winning author of both novels and short stories, and this collection gathers some of his best together. The bulk of this collection was originally published as a limited edition book from Gray Friar Press titled It Knows Where You Live, but the current collection expands that previous collection with newer stories and makes it available to a wider reading public. Overall, Where You Live is a really satisf...

Some stories spoke to me and others didn't. Nonetheless, even if it's only because of those I found interesting, engaging and/or downright terrifying, I consider this anthology worthy of your time.Final rating: 7.5/10

As the publisher's note states, "horror is everywhere." Gary McMahon has a gift for spotting the discarded toy on the lawn that indicates something sinister is going on inside the house. His use of highly recognizable settings and situations is designed to draw the reader in, but also to leave us no critical distance, no safe place in which to process and objectify (and neutralize) our fear.Usually when readers praise a writer's imagination they're impressed by the number of whimsical places and...

Original workA lot of horror starts to all look alike, but Gary McMahon has some refreshing , original story ideas in Where You Live.

The latest collection from the prolific pen of Gary McMahon takes twelve stories from his sold out, very limited, collection It Knows Where You Live and adds to these an additional seven stories. McMahon is a great proponent of the short story and the selection on offer here maintains his reputation for strong, emotionally impactful fiction. My only criticism is with the layout of the collection which rather than combining all the stories into a cohesive whole they are separated into two section...

I received Where You Live by Gary McMahon as an ARC and this fascinating bundle of alternately weird, surreal, haunting and horrifying tales is my first exposure to the author's work. One expects a certain amount of fluctuation in a short story collection but McMahon has a very consistent voice and vision as he unfolds one story after another.For just a smattering, there's well conceived stories that also provide a backdrop to current socio-economic situations today, such as "When One Door Close...

On the plus side; very evocative writing in terms of description, and unafraid to get outright weird. Reminded me of some Ramsey Campbell that I've read.That said, came away from the collection with the feeling that there was a certain uniformity (felt like with two exceptions, the protagonists were universally failing to cope with adult life in the form of either jobs or relationships), and there wasn't always a lot of space for the horror to develop before they came to a bad end.

Most of these stories are narrated by male characters, most involve bickering couples with relationship issues, and many of them involve characters seeing things that disappear. "Just Another Horror Story" is a bit meta, as you'd expect from the title. It has a nice, unsettling atmosphere and is left unresolved at the end in a good way."The Chair" is perhaps my favorite story in the collection. A child who never leaves the house sees a chair appear outside. He stops taking his medication and his...

Gary McMahon’s name crops up a lot these days. There’s hardly a magazine or an anthology in the genre that doesn’t feature him. The simple reason is he’s really good.McMahon’s characters tend to have real world problems: isolation, depression, disassociation; relationships are failing or already over. There aren’t many happy well-adjusted people in this book. Nor many jokes.When the bad thing happens, it often resonates with the character’s inner state, reinforcing the horror, making it worse fo...

I received a preview copy of this book. My first impression is that the stories were dismal accounts of the dismal lives of dismal people. Most of the characters in the stories were experiencing pretty depressing events - divorce, job loss, loneliness - and then were facing true weirdness. The weirdness occurred in or around dwellings or workplaces. Doors would slam into the face of a desperate jobseeker. Furniture would appear suddenly and play host to otherworldly events. In one tale, a flock

A few fine spooky stories, but the quality is uneven throughout this collection, and every POV character seems to be the exact same person (middle-aged, teacher/writer, bad relationship, etc).

I received this book for free from the Goodreads first-read giveaway. I thought this was a really good collection of short stories, Most are not TERRIFYING, just more like really disturbing. They all keep the title theme "Where You Live". The scary things are right there in your neighborhood, your house, or even inside you!

Another superb collection of short horror from Gary McMahon. Personal favourites: Alice, Hanging Out At The Skate Park; Sounds Weird; It Knows Where You Live; and Small Things.