Rating: ⭐⭐⭐ ½Genre: Horror + AnthologiesThis had three entertaining short stories. As the title suggests these horror stories are best read before you sleep. Or maybe not! 👀Where Angels Come In:Three kids dare each other to get inside a haunted house. There is a history of past incidents where children have disappeared after going inside that house. This was a very atmospheric horror story. I liked it. The Ancestors:This is the story of a Japanese young girl. The family just moved to this house

It's pretty clear that Adam Nevill enjoys more than a nodding acquaintance with the dark and the horrors held within its borders.  We are treated to three short stories in this collection, with a haunted house to frame each tale.  All were appropriately scary in different ways.  The standout for me was the final offering entitled "Florrie".  It centers on a young man who buys an old home, having designs on a complete renovation.  Showcased here are the real horrors of the aging process, of becom...

Before You Sleep is a little taster of what is to come in Some Will Not Sleep: Selected Horrors.All three short stories in this collection have a creepy haunted house theme.Where Angels Come In may freak you out if you have an aversion to dolls.The Ancestors was my favourite story, as I found it the creepiest. It had a similar eerie feel to the many Japanese horror films I watched and loved about two decades ago.The main thing I took from Florrie was the reminder that I absolutely love the smell...

Childhood Two boys’ visit to a haunted house doesn’t go as expected.A little girl has a ghost as a friend.A man becomes strangely attached to his new, outdated home.Three short stories. Three great endings!

3.83 "chilly Alloween" stars !!! This review is a bit late for my Halloween read but better late than never ! This is a sampling of Mr. Nevill's work and is available for free download at his website. Mr. Nevill is a talented writer and I hope to read more of his writing.I will rate each story with a brief little comment and call it a night. 1. Where Angels Come In 3.5 stars A grotesque tale of two little boys that enter a haunted house. Do they live to tell the tale ? I particularly like the di...

3.5 Stars.Three fine haunted house ghost stories....FLORRIE the most ghastly....and my favorite!Great for the more daunted readers of horror. Ghosts, but no blood and gore.After just completing THE RITUAL, I can attest this trilogy is tame by far, but has the same excellent descriptive and atmospheric flair that keeps you turning the pages!A kindle freebie from the author. Grab it!

4.5 Stars Before you Sleep by Adam Nevill is a small collection of short stories, three of them, that are previews for an upcoming collection that he is putting out later this year. Adam Nevill is simply one of today's best horror novelists. He is one of my favorite authors and one that I often recommend to friends as I know that he will be new to them. These are three good ghost stories that show his writing style but due to their length they cannot compare to the dread and suspense created in

Fantastically creepy short stories released as a teaser for the upcoming collection 'Some will not sleep.'All three stories are great quality and have an unsettling undercurrent that Adam Neville excels at. He writes childrens' thoughts and speech patterns particularly well.My personal favourite was the last story in which a young man begins to gradually change after moving into an old house. His nostalgic recollections of the food, television and decor of his youth made me feel very cosy, so I'...

Adam Nevill's work makes my skin crawl. in a 'good' horror creeps me out kind of way. I need to read more of his work, but for now I just need to get some sleep after this one and stop worrying about that shuffling noise under the bed.......

'Florrie' was my favourite of the three stories in this mini collection, and I can't quite yet put my finger on why. Maybe it was because of the descriptions of that house, so reminiscent of how I remember my grandparent's house when I was small, playing on the hideously patterned 70s carpet that I could always see faces in, underneath a fog of cigarette smoke (no-one cared about passive smoking and children's lungs in the 80s!). I thought the descriptions of how Frank gradually took on the char...

I really liked those three stories. They are well written, spooky and come without any gore. Hard to say what is the best story in here. I really loved the second and the third one. The third one reminded me a bit on Burnt Offerings by Robert Marcuso. The character becomes obsessed with the new house he lives in and his world is changing fast. Give it a read, you won't regret the reading time!

Described as horror and creepy reads, are you kidding me, who reviews these 5 year olds? 2 out of the 3 were alright I guess the last one was boring. I'm glad it was free because I'd demand my money back.

Well, I can only imagine how creepy Nevill’s actual books are. Where Angels come in: a great take on the haunted house I made the mistake of reading before going to sleep. Definitely creepy. 4 starsThe Ancestors: interesting concept of Japanese horror but it lacked it in the execution. Could’ve been longer and I dare say creepier. 3 starsFlorrie: not my cup of tea. Creepy again in some parts but overall I kinda didn’t understand it. 1 star

Three very good, very creepy stories. I particularly enjoyed the last one.All the way through you could feel a sort of sinister undercurrent. Actually gives me shivers down my spine just thinking about it.Well worth checking out!

This trio of short stories gives you a taste of Adam's forthcoming short story collection 'Some will not Sleep', and being a subscriber to his newsletter enables you to get this for free digitally.I really enjoyed these stories which were all quite different to one another and wonderfully unusual.I can't wait for his next book and to read the rest of his short stories!

** Edited as review is now live on Kendall Reviews! **Yup. Steve is admitting that this is his first time reading Nevill. In reality –I tried to read Before You Wake: Three Horrors (the companion ebook to this one) last year, and just didn’t enjoy the first story. Shamefully, I re-read that first story last night and loved itAnyways –back to this one.Like I said, I’ve not read Nevill, but that’s going to absolutely be changing. Since the first day that I connected with Gavin aka Mr. Kendall Revi...

an eerie sample of whats to come from Nevill's new collection. Three shorts that manly evolve around young kids and things that go bump in the night. I've been looking forward to reading more of the authors work since reading "The Ritual"and this was just a taste....

A very good short horror Anthology.The three stories have interesting ideeas, maybe not so original, but quite effective and entertaining, capable to please any reader.Like I said from the three stories, one I knew, and the last one had a great atmosphere, and the tension is builded gradually very well, but the ending was a little rush for my liking. Still it's a good one, and from what I saw in the comments, with quite a lot of success to the other readers.If you love the suspense and you don't...

I picked this up during a recent mass-download of free Kindle books. I’m not sure what possessed me, as it would be appropriate to say I’m scared of my own shadow. My partner works away, and I’m alone in the house a lot, screaming at ‘figures’ which are usually just clothes piled on a chair, or ‘spooky noises’ which are usually just neighbours moving around upstairs. What I’m trying to say is, Before You Sleep did not help with my nocturnal fright. In fact, forget nocturnal, I could barely read

You know that glorious feeling when the first taste of an author makes you want to consume everything they've ever written? I've just had that with Adam Nevill.These three stories hit all the right notes for me. Each features a house, each with a different flavor of haunting. My favorite was the second story, "The Ancestors," which had elements of Japanese horror. Marvelously creepy. I also found "Florrie" to be very affecting. (view spoiler)[ The shift in voice and perspective as the woman's sp...