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Cargando... The Mammoth Book of Vampires (1992)por Stephen Jones (Editor)
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. A random mix of stories about vampires; some tradition and some very out there. Enjoyable and interesting. ( ) A collection of 29 tales by different authors, this includes short stories, novellas and a poem from Neil Gaiman to close the collection. As always with collections they are of various appeal, for me the stronger stories are by Clive Barker, F Paul Wilson and Kim Newman. This is not to say that the others aren't worth reading but those are the three that stick in my mind. Of course with a themed collection there are no surprises when a vampire does appear but some of the stories are not quite so clear cut and some did manage to shock me. Overall not a bad collection. Four stories really stood out from the crowd in this anthology: * Necros by Brian Lumley * Beyond Any Measure by Karl Edward Wagner * The Better Half by Melanie Tem * Midnight Mass by F. Paul Wilson Each one had at least one twist to the vampire lore that I had never seen before and enjoyed immensely. Unfortunately, while those four stories were exceptional, the remaining 25 were not. While none of the stories were bad, they all seemed to lack something new or different. They failed at grabbing my attention. 75 pages of some of the best vampire fiction I've ever read just isn't enough to carry the rest of this book. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
ContieneNecros por Brian Lumley
The modern masters of the macabre bring the dead to life in this special 're-vamped' edition of the classic compilation every horror fan will want to sink their teeth into. Here is the very best in vampire fiction, from tales of tempting sirens to contemporary serial killers; from haunting doppelgangers to nefarious historical figures; from the dark origins of fairy tales to a modern reinterpretation of the King of the Undead himself, Count Dracula. This new edition includes over a dozen new stories from Tina Rath's A Trick of the Dark to Kim Newman's Andy Warhol's Dracula, as well as classic novellas such as Hugh B. Cave's Stragella, and Chelsea Quinn Yarbro's Investigating Jericho. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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