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A spellbinding collection of the best stories in the genre of horror and the supernatural. With works by Stephen King, Joyce Carol Oates, Robert Silverberg, H.G Wells and dozens more, this indispensable compilation will show that anything can happen in these tales of unworldly terror and heart stopping horror. A truly definitive volume that will stand the test of time!… (lisätietoja)
Good-but-not-great compendium of horror stories originally published in 1981 and since reissued under a number of different titles (Great Tales of Horror and the Supernatural, The Giant Book of Horror Stories, et al.). It covers a lot of ground, but much of the book reflects the very individual tastes of its editors...and, particularly amongst the more recent material, this leads to the ill-advised inclusion of stories which, even by the loosest definition, struggle to qualify as "horror." Hence a couple of pointless, uninvolving vignettes like Arthur L. Samuels's "Mass Without Voices" and Elizabeth Morton's "Namesake," and a longer story such as editor Bill Pronzini's "Black Wind." (Pronzini wrote at least one bang-up horror tale, "Peekaboo," and it's the one that should have appeared in this collection.) Most of the earlier stories are fantastic, however, and Truman Capote's chilling "Shut a Final Door" demonstrates that horror can be found in atypical locations. There's a curious lack of emphasis on English authors, who were incredibly important to the development of ghost and horror stories. You may find it difficult to imagine a book that purports to trace the history of the genre yet includes nothing by M.R. James or Algernon Blackwood, but here it is. (However, James's favorite ghost story writer--the Irishman Sheridan Le Fanu--is represented with "Squire Toby's Will," one of his greatest works.)
All in all there's some terrific stuff, including less frequently anthologized tales by Poe ("Hop Frog") and Nathaniel Hawthorne ("Rappaccini's Daughter"), as well as undisputed classics by Henry James ("The Jolly Corner"), Lovecraft ("Pickman's Model") and Karl Edward Wagner ("Sticks"). The intro was written by Stephen King, who also contributes one of his best and most overtly horrific stories ("The Crate," later dramatized in George Romero's 1982 film Creepshow). Not a comprehensive anthology, but a very readable one for the most part. ( )
Tiedot englanninkielisestä Yhteisestä tiedosta.Muokkaa kotoistaaksesi se omalle kielellesi.
TO Cornell George Hopley-Woolrich 1903-1968
Ensimmäiset sanat
Tiedot englanninkielisestä Yhteisestä tiedosta.Muokkaa kotoistaaksesi se omalle kielellesi.
First of all (and this is fundamental), you have my cheerful permission to shoot me if I fall into a classic crouching posture and begin to defend the horror story, your right to read it or the right of any writer--those represented in this volume, those not and those yet unborn--to tell such tales.
--Introduction
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Viimeiset sanat
Erotteluhuomautus
Tiedot englanninkielisestä Yhteisestä tiedosta.Muokkaa kotoistaaksesi se omalle kielellesi.
The Arbor House Treasury of Horror and the Supernatural was republished as Classic Tales of Horror and the Supernatural. Do not combine with Great Tales of Horror and the Supernatural. According to the book's front matter, Great Tales of Horror and the Supernatural is "abridged from the Arbor House Treasury of Horror and the Supernatural". It does not contain the story "Mass Without Voices" by Arthur R. Samuels, but otherwise the contents are the same.
The story, "Man Overboard", by Winston Churchill was authored by the British prime minister, that he reserved for posthumous publication.
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Tiedot englanninkielisestä Yhteisestä tiedosta.Muokkaa kotoistaaksesi se omalle kielellesi.
A spellbinding collection of the best stories in the genre of horror and the supernatural. With works by Stephen King, Joyce Carol Oates, Robert Silverberg, H.G Wells and dozens more, this indispensable compilation will show that anything can happen in these tales of unworldly terror and heart stopping horror. A truly definitive volume that will stand the test of time!
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THE DEEP ONES: "The Girl With the Hungry Eyes" by Fritz Leiber
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