RaveThe Michigan DailyThese are stories to tell in the dark for adults, ones that creep up your spine in the middle of the night, urging you to turn the light on again just one more time, lest something be watching you. Evenson’s writing would be frightening for any age demographic, but the collection’s themes tend to hit home even harder for an adult reader ... Evenson ... is not only in the business of scaring his audience―he also wants them to think. In several stories throughout Unraveling, that thought can be more frightening than the content of his writing itself ... However bizarre or improbable, Unraveling highlights the darkest corners of the human mind, those parts of our psyche that are buried deep, waiting to be coaxed out. Throughout the collection, these questions are often what enhances the existing horror narrative, coloring Evenson’s stories with an uneasy sense of reality. The unstable relationship many people have with their own identities is echoed in many of these narratives, all with an unsettling twist. Evenson is a master of weaving traditional horror tropes with an almost psychoanalytic approach to worldbuilding ...That is the brilliance of Unraveling—it does not hand over a perfectly built \'scary story,\' but instead reveals the horror that already exists all around us.
