In the compilation Stories by Neil Gaimon ,Al Sarrantonio, and Others is a group of creepy, eerie, or downright frightening stories. This one is pretty much all three. Catch and Release is about a man picking up female hitch hikers and then killing and eating them. In the man mind the hitch hiker are fish and some he catches and releases while others ...well you know. So I'm going to tell you what this story does well and does poorly.
Starting off with the pros of this story, a few things I think that the author Lawrence Block performed well on was the realism. There's nothing fantasy about this story. The author goes into detail about almost every single aspect of this story. From the car which the protagonist drives to the house an lifestyles of each of the victims. This makes the story just that much scarier. but the thing that makes the detail all too over the top is how the author describes the protagonists heartless feelings while killing his victim. Another thing that makes this story very disgusting is how he compare fishing to murder and cannibalism. Gosh is this story just wrong.
Now the cons. Well to be honest there aren't many being a the story is well executed and very short. There's one thing that I dislike though about the story. That being why did he have such a generic pattern? I mean that every other person he kill and eats and the lucky one don't get killed or eaten. That for a horror story is a tad bit generic don't you think.
In conclusion this story is seriously screwed up in almost every possible way. The pro obviously outnumber the con making it something to be reckoned with. So I would rate this story Really, Really, Really, Really, Really good. Of course that rating is for those who are mentally dangerous for the rest of us this would be considered Really, Really,Really messed up.
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