She Nailed a Stake Through His Head: Tales of Biblical Terror has a title somewhat belied by its contents. To me, the title seems to promise looking at the bible stories through a slightly different lens, in which they're actually scary, but at the same time, it seems to me a bit of a tongue-in-cheek title.
The stories themselves are mostly not funny (although one is). They're a bit of a grab-bag, from fairly direct retellings of biblical stories (Ruth as a vampire, Jonah as a disciple of cthulhu) to ones very loosely inspired by the original (Daniel as a modern-day poet brought in to help with forecasting the future at the firm of Bell, Chase, and Her). This last was a good story in its own right, and I quite enjoyed it. The Ruth story was good. Cathrynne Valente had a story, and, despite the fact that I usually enjoy her writing, I didn't like it at all.
All in all, I'm glad I gave it a try.
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