What a nice little treat to have stumbled upon! The Reluctant Vampire and Other Tales is only 98 pages long and manages to include 48 stories! As you can imagine, many of these micro fiction stories are less than 1000 words. They are super quick to flip through! It was easy to find a few minutes here and there to read a story or two. As with any anthology, there were stories I liked better than others. Many of the stories were pleasantly creepy and commented on some aspect of

The authors that I read growing up feel very safe to me. Even if they don't produce the type of the work I would usually read as an adult, it is a very familiar and comforting place for me to return to. This is very true of Joy Fielding. As a young teenager, Fielding was my favorite author. I read everything she had written. I even did my final project in English 12 advanced on an extensive comparison of her works. As an adult, I wouldn't usually pick up this kind of book. Bu