I have The Strain by Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan on my TBR and this was a good chance to see if their writing is for me before investing time and money in a full length novel.

Del Toro and Hogan do a great job with the storytelling and atmosphere in so few pages. I was so keen to get to the next story because each story finished at such a good point. The characters were written very well in the small page count, but done so well that it was very easy to get invested in them. 

Random note: While the plot is not the same, these stories gave me similar vibes to the movie Dog Soldiers.