Truth or Dare is a solid anthology from editor Max Booth II and Perpetual Motion Machine Publishing. It’s a shared world collection centering on a situation rife with storytelling opportunities: a drunken high school game of “Truth or Dare” in a dark Ohio forest on a Halloween full moon night. The stories are all firmly grounded in horror, but explore a wide variety of subgenres and situations.Richard Thomas kicks things off with his short entry “Shackled to the Shadows”. It’s a nice, if lean, s...

Short stories are something that seems more difficult to sell than to create. If a collection doesn't add up to more than the sum of its parts, it's just bad value for the customer at some point. Max Booth III and Lori Michelle, the people behind Perpetual Motion Machine Publishing, have come up with an interesting twist with their Halloween-themed anthology of last year: Truth or Dare.Not every story is a hit and some people didn't seem to get the memo that the stories should preferably be abou...

This anthology starts with the writing of Richard Thomas, who includes a very short story of only a few pages long. He was definitely the right choice to start the anthology as he immediately draws the reader in by getting straight to the point and the whole story feels so tense. I can literally feel the anger seeping from Damon. Eric J. Guignard is the next author. His piece begins with a lot of repetition and beautiful descriptions that made me smile, but with a single line: ‘this night was li...

I should probably state that I received a free copy of this ebook from the publisher/editor in exchange for a true Halloween story from my past. I would likely have bought it eventually anyway, as this indie publisher is one whose books I always find worth the time spent reading.This collection of horror stories are tied together as a shared world anthology, using the premise of a game of truth or dare being played by a group of teenagers at a secluded spot in the woods on Halloween night. Witho...

I wish I would've had copy of this back around the time it was initially released, because it would be the perfect thing to read through the nights around Halloween. The short stories of this themed horror collection Truth or Dare of course share a framework around the party game. But they also share a common universe in setting and characters, the high school students of Greene Point High in Ohio who gather around a bonfire on Halloween night to reveal untold tales or meet the twisted challenge...

I don't usually read anthologies but the concept of this was enough for me to give it a try. I was glad I did. This is a shared world anthology where each author tells the story of a different character playing the same game of 'truth or dare' on Halloween around a bonfire. Regardless of which choice the different authors have their characters pick, the results are sometimes funny, frequently scary, and every time disturbing.Part of the benefit of reading this book is that you never know what to...

It was difficult to rate this, as I was a little confused on how to piece my own opinions together on it. Though it’s an anthology of separate stories, it takes place with characters from the same high school and would be difficult to believe it all happened in one night. That aside, it definitely holds its own weight in the horror section. I love horror but I don’t get to read much of it, and don’t really push myself to because it’s so hit or miss. This collection was great for me because there...

ARC for review. What looked like a promising premise (a group of teenagers get together in the woods for a nighttime game of Truth or Dare) ended up as a mess. Maybe this was simply a case of too many cooks (it appears there was a different writer for each story, but the group was definitely supposed to be a group of about two hundred (two hundred? Good Lord!) kids, linked by....school, I think, even though that isn't really clear). Anyway, there are a few bridges between the various "truths" (w...

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'Truth or Dare' is a collection of campfire tales of truth or dare.The cover really drew me to this book and I tore through the tales. While there were a few stories that I just didn't connect with, there were a lot of creepy ideas overall and a few really excellent stories that I found myself thinking about long after I finished reading. This is definitely worth picking up if you're a fan of short horror tales!Note: I received a copy of this book from Netgalley in return for my honest review.

I received this book for an honest review through Goodreads First Reads program. I love anthologies, especially now when I have so much to read for college classes. I can read one or two short stories as a break from homework. I was thrilled when this book came in I needed a new book to get me psyched up for Halloween, and yes I do start my Halloween celebrating in September. The stories while not super scary do have a bit of spook factor to them and are great reads. The fact that they are set i...

I received this book via NetGalley to give an honest review.I actually thought I downloaded this book via NetGalley but it must not have went through so I bought the book instead as it was archived before I got to it.This is a book that I think the teenagers and YA will enjoy. They are random short stories that are decently good. Truth or Dare? It is a game many play but for the students of Greene Point High School it may be much more than that. What will each teen that is picked take a truth or...

It's a common occurrence with anthologies for me to like some stories and not care for others. The same is true for Truth or Dare. This book is a collection of stories set on Halloween night, with a group of kids around a bonfire. The theme to all the tales is that game we all played as teens, Truth or Dare. My favorite stories were The Bone Witch, The Pole, and Rattlebone Express. The first one is about an old witch with bones surrounding her house, the second involves a WWII German uniform and...

Perpetual Motion Machine is a publisher that has impressed me with the quality of writers on their roster and because of that I decided to read Truth or Dare. The writers I am a fan of, such as Richard Thomas, Nik Korpon, and Jessica Mchugh, did not disappoint. Mchugh's was straight up brutal, just the way I like it! I have to say the star of the show for me was "Laal Andhi" by Usman T. Malik. I have never heard of Malik before this but now I plan to read more from him. His descriptions of Pakis...

Highly recommend for teens looking for a fright. There are a few creepy stories in there. I'm lucky I read the book in daylight hours, reading this before bed would have surely resulted in nightmares. I think my teen daughter would love this book....

(I received this book for free, through NetGalley, in exchange for a review).(This review may contain spoilers).I felt this was a fairly interesting anthology to read. It was good to see all of these authors writing in a shared universe and how some of the characters were mentioned in more than one story. There were a lot of different kinds of stories, ranging from the truly bizarre to the truly disturbing. It was good to get something of an insight into the characters' heads.The first story, I

Review: TRUTH OR DARE edited by Max Booth III (Multiple Authors)An electrifyingly frightening collection of themed horror tales, TRUTH OR DARE definitely should not be read at night and finished just before sleep (as I did); but I do recommend it whenever you want your scares delivered non-stop, by a team of excellent authors in seamless collaboration.Developed around an adolescent "campfire-in-the-woods" theme, the classic challenge of "Truth or Dare" takes on horrifying meaning. Some of the st...

I received an e-copy of this book from Netgalley for review purposes.This is a very strong horror anthology about the childhood game "Truth or Dare." I'm not sure which choice was worse for the characters in this. I don't often get afraid or have feelings of thrill and anticipation while reading horror. This I had all three.I really liked it. The editor made good choices in the authors he choose for this.