When author Jeneva Rose is at the helm, a standard night out is already a terrible idea. Case in point: Sometimes I Scare Myself, a razor-sharp horror triptych takes benign, familiar setups — a birthday toast, a suburban housewarming, a brief highway pull-over — and plunges them headfirst into worst-case scenarios.
Instead of relying on cheap jump scares, the collection weaponises the uncanny: A séance goes alarmingly off-script, a dream house starts whispering, and a seemingly harmless highway pull-over comes with a curse. Across these three very different nightmares, Rose explores the moment fear gets right under your skin — and what happens when you let it take the reins.
Serving up the deliciously satisfying, bite-sized shocks of an EC Comics or Creepshow-style anthology, it’s easily one of the most effective entries in modern horror this reviewer has read all year.
To mark the book’s release today, CinemaChords spoke with Rose about the “misbehaving thoughts” that birthed the trilogy, the psychology of letting fear take ownership of the mind, and the connective tissue binding these three dark fables together.