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· Year: 1997
· Also known as: Little Evil Things, volume 1
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1. Transformation
2. Little Evil Thing
3. The Quiet Child
4. It's After Me!
5. Parasites
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· Followed by three sequels and an upcoming fourth.
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Amazon.com
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Five original horror stories with musical accompaniment.
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If you want wet cobblestones, shadowy houses and fog-shrouded moors, look elsewhere, for Little Evil Things is a foray into modern horror. The album begins with an account of painfully turning into a werewolf--it's not bad, but it is a throwaway trifle. Through the next four stories, Little Evil Things tweaks tried-and-true horror themes (monsters, superhuman powers, the line between dreams and reality, and creepy crawly things) by including them in decidedly modern settings. The second story is a variation on a Gremlins theme, and while the ending isn't too much of a surprise, it's a decently acted bit. The fourth track is a standard chase story, though it suffers from the problem that plagues all but the very best of its type: in a story in which reality and dreams are blurred, it doesn't make a difference where the story winds up. The album ends with a weird and reasonably disgusting tale that works until the end, when it just seems to stop, thereby not providing a good end to the album. Did I skip one, you say? Yes, track three, "The Quiet Child." It's the best piece, a little story that follows the "good child with a terrible power" storyline to a fantastic--and horrifically logical--ending.
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