Full Throttle is, as I have come to expect from Joe Hill, a work that takes off and goes from the very first paragraph; you will be horrified, disgusted, heartbroken, and find yourself caring, way more than you want to, even about the characters you know you shouldn’t. What you will not be is sorry that you took the time to indulge in this anthology of deliciously terrifying horror stories that dropped Tuesday, right in time for Spooky Season.
Every story moves quickly- and although I am looking forward to watching the Netflix interpretation of ‘In The Tall Grass’, his collaboration with his father, the Master of Horror, Stephen King, I have to admit that my favorite of the collection was ‘Throttle’, the very first story in the book. I reread it 3 times before I sat down to write this.
Yes, Joe HIll’s father is the Master of Horror but I daresay he himself has a title of his own- like the Overlord of Terror and Dread, as dread is what he weaves the most artfully into every single thing he writes- ‘Full Throttle’ does not disappoint.