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And when he does go “up north,” he finds things so creepy that it even made me keep the light on at night, and I don’t scare easily.

The townspeople welcome this stranger but warn him that he must not ride “up north.” Of course, the stranger has other ideas. Titled “Milk Ranch Point” and written in 1984, this story begins with a stranger riding into town on a great gray stallion back in the wild west days. The very first story in the collection is indeed one of my favorites. This is a collection of Little’s short stories that have been previously unpublished throughout the decades he’s been scaring people.Īlthough I loved the entire collection, I don’t have room to review each story, so instead I will talk about my favorites. So you can imagine how excited I was when I found out that Bentley Little has a new collection out titled WALKING ALONE. In fact, Stephen King calls Bentley Little “The horror poet laureate.” And I agree. Bentley Little absolutely thinks “outside the box,” making his work original and fresh every time, year after exciting year. Each time I read his works, I am always amazed at the vivid imagination he possesses, including taking me to creepy corners of his mind and inserting inventiveness of the extremely horrific kind. Since then, I have read many of Little’s novels and even published a few of his short stories myself in anthologies from The Horror Zine. This made that novel even more frightening, more real, because I said to myself, “This could happen to me.” I was immediately drawn to Little’s ability to take an ordinary person and thrust him into an extraordinary situation. I first discovered Bentley Little twenty years ago when I read THE ASSOCIATION.