Cemetery Tacos and Other Delights is a new collection from author Nora B. Peevy. It’s currently slated to arrive in November from JournalStone Publishing, but I was lucky enough to get my hands on a coveted ARC copy.

Since the author self described it as a “weird little collection” I went into it fully expecting it to be full on bizarro, and was broadsided when the first story, “Knock, Knock,” turned out to be a straightforward grief centered horror that might or might not have made me tear up a little¹. I blame it on the fact that the story revolves around a stuffed animal that plays music when wound up, and I have a musical teddy from my childhood.

That moved into the second story, “The Telling Place.” That one was another straightforward horror involving a family therapist.

By this point I concluded that this “weird little collection” was actually a strong horror collection that I could sink my teeth into.

In the end, Cemetery Tacos and Other Delights did end up serving a couple of weird tales, like “Carnivorous Cows from Outer Space” and even some with a more fantastical or sci-fi element, like “How Romeo and More Saved the World” and even a little humor with “Murder Hornet man Saves Milwaukee (Sort of)”, but those little gems of light serve a pallet cleansers before diving back into the more meaty horrors.

At 14 stories long, it felt way to short to me in the end.

The Author, Nora B. Peevy, has already released a novel, Flesh eating Turtles and a novelette For the Sake of Brigid. Both are currently available on Amazon. She is also a syndicate author for Thrill Ride eZine and The Butchered Writers, and editor for Baynam Books Press and a freelance narrator and editor.

1. (Let the records show that the defendant cried like a baby….) ↩︎