‘They Lurk’ – Ronald Malfi (Titan Books)
I’d never read anything by Ronald Malfi and payday had just happened so it was but the work of a minute, or two, to hop onto Amazon and have me a copy of ‘They Lurk’. Why ‘They Lurk’? Easy ;o) I thought a collection of novellas would give me a broader picture of what Malfi writes about, ‘After the Fade’ already looked like the kind of thing that I’d be into (and it was, but more on that in a moment…) and I was keen to see what the other novellas delivered. The original plan then was to dip into ‘They Lurk’ as and when I needed to something short to read, probably on the bus to and from work. As it turned out though, the commute took longer than expected and by the time I got to lunch, I was enjoying ‘They Lurk’ so much that it was very easy to just keep reading. I ended up polishing the whole thing off yesterday and it was time very much well spent. I’ll take a quick look at each novella, in a little more detail, but as a whole, ‘They Lurk’ was a very good read and I’ve already got ‘Gh...