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Scared? You will be! Feel your nerves jangle and chills run up and down your spine thanks to the hair-raising genius of Edgar Allan Poe, Mark Twain, E. F. Benson, H. P. Lovecraft, Fritz Leiber, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Stephen Crane, Charles Dickens, Robert Barr, and many others who know well how to manipulate a reader's emotions. From Washington Irving comes "The Adventure of My Grandfather" and from Saki, "The Cobweb." Bill Pronzini plays a horrifying game of "Peekaboo," while Frances Garfield portrays "The House at Evening" to alarming effect. This unique and very special collection is like a carnival ride of terror that you'll want to go on again and again.… (más)
100 stories; 10 or 20 of which are okay. My reaction to most of them was "I can't believe somebody paid these guys money to write this junk." My reaction to the rest were "And then what happened?" or "So what?" In other words, they weren't hair-raising (I still have my bald spot to prove it) and few qualified as horror. Nor does it live up to the intro where it says these are short-shorts. Many run quite a few pages and too many stop abruptly without coming to a real conclusion. The ones by Poe and Bierce are generally good (although they've been anthologized dozens of times elsewhere), the modern ones are generally poor. But that's only my opinion. Others may vary. ( )
As the title states, this is a tidy collection of 100 horror stories, spanning perhaps the last 150 years. Including such classic authors as Washington Irving and Edgar Allen Poe, as well as Charles Dickens, H.P. Lovecraft, Mark Twain and Stephen Crane, and others less well known outside horror, science fiction or mystery circles. The stories are arranged alphabetically by title. As with most collections of this size, there are always amazing stories and boring stories, but this collection, over all, was excellent. The editors did a fine job of collecting tales of all sorts - creepy, gory, subtle and chilling.
My favorites:
The Grab by Richard Laymon: It seemed like such a normal story until the end....
Examination Day by Henry Slesar: Scary because we aren't far from this as a society.....
Making Friends by Gary Raisor: Children are creepy, dark-hearted little vipers..... ( )
Scared? You will be! Feel your nerves jangle and chills run up and down your spine thanks to the hair-raising genius of Edgar Allan Poe, Mark Twain, E. F. Benson, H. P. Lovecraft, Fritz Leiber, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Stephen Crane, Charles Dickens, Robert Barr, and many others who know well how to manipulate a reader's emotions. From Washington Irving comes "The Adventure of My Grandfather" and from Saki, "The Cobweb." Bill Pronzini plays a horrifying game of "Peekaboo," while Frances Garfield portrays "The House at Evening" to alarming effect. This unique and very special collection is like a carnival ride of terror that you'll want to go on again and again.
In other words, they weren't hair-raising (I still have my bald spot to prove it) and few qualified as horror. Nor does it live up to the intro where it says these are short-shorts. Many run quite a few pages and too many stop abruptly without coming to a real conclusion.
The ones by Poe and Bierce are generally good (although they've been anthologized dozens of times elsewhere), the modern ones are generally poor.
But that's only my opinion. Others may vary. ( )