Author R.B. O'Brien brings us a dark look into the human soul with A Red, Red Rose. This book has dark poems and prose stories that will chill you to bone. One of the ones that stood out for me was one where a little girl had meet a friend in a playground and was given a doll that looked like her. The doll though was beaten up and on her way back to her mother the little girl fell and was sliced open in some areas and her eye was out of its socket. Then near the end of the book there's one about an actress who was posing for photos for a gig in a movie that she had landed the lead in and when the photographer left she had to deal with the dead body of the actress whom she took over the part from. Then at near close to the end the last prose was that of a girl who would tell herself that she would get on the train tomorrow and she is then hit by a car. Then her day repeats. This collection is worth every penny and I highly recommend it to all horror fans and those that like the macabre.
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