Just Finished Reading Full Throttle by Joe Hill

Joe Hill is the pen name of Joseph King, one of renowned horror fiction writer Stephen King's sons.  Hill has his own successful writing career, and this 2019 book Full Throttle is a collection of short stories that he wrote over the years, two of them in collaboration with his father.  Some of the stories, and the author acknowledged this, seem derivative.  But each of them is in essence its own original story with its own message...or moral, if you will.  I liked the stories but admit that they could be very troublesome for squeamish and overly sensitive readers, belonging as most of them do to the horror fiction genre.  By the way, I also enjoyed the introduction, in which Hill discussed himself, his famous dad as well as his personal take on the craft of writing...

Here's a listing of the individual stories...with some commentary following each one that I included to aid me in better remembering them sometime off in the future.

1 THROTTLE (with Stephen King)...similar to movie Duel, "victims" are motorcycle gang
2 DARK CAROUSEL...youths rob carousel operator, flee its "animals"
3 WOLVERTON STATION...coffee magnate slips into werewolf England
4 BY THE SILVER WATER OF LAKE CHAMPLAIN...children with awful parents find dead lake monster
5 FAUN...jerk in Maine finds portal to fantasy world, uses it to hunt its creatures
6 LATE RETURNS...dude gets a library bookmobile job, dead people visit him
7 ALL I CARE ABOUT IS YOU...teenage girl in a dystopian future with present-day angst, add robot to mix
8 THUMBPRINT...military woman comes home from scandal-ridden Iraqi detention center, what goes around...
9 THE DEVIL ON THE STAIRCASE...in Italy of the past, a red door on a long staircase leads to hell....
10 TWITTERING FROM THE CIRCUS OF THE DEAD...teenage girl tweets family visit to isolated gross-out circus...
11 MUMS...McVeigh-like separatist dad fights mom for son, story heavily involves plants...
12 IN THE TALL GRASS (with Stephen King)...out west, a couple walk into the tall roadside grass to rescue crying boy, big mistake...
13 YOU ARE RELEASED...on a jet plane to Boston the passengers are progressively notified of an international crisis...

All the stories were good, but also pretty disturbing, which is what you usually get with this type of fiction...so you've been warned...