from: Carroll & Graf
Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 808.838738
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Label: Carroll & Graf
Manufacturer: Carroll & Graf
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 272
Printing Date: August 31, 2005
Publishing house: Carroll & Graf
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Winner of the Bram Stoker Award for Best Anthology.
Nineteen original, macabre tales of terror by the world's greatest horror writers, including Clive Barker, Ray Bradbury, Whitley Strieber, F. Paul Wilson, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, and many other masters.
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No, this collection of short stories isn't an intellectual excercise in academia, but it does have such a wide variety of horror styles by excellent writers, that it DOES make you think about "What is horror?" What is horror, what does it try to say and accomplish?
As others have said, the horror styles range from poetic (Harryhausen) to hack and slash, and everything in between. There's even political horror in there. After all, what makes horror, horror? Blood and guts, sure. But also what people do to other people, defining the Other as the reader and putting you smack in the middle of the horror of different situations.
Wonderful anthology. I'm planning on making the trip to Dark Delicacies (a short drive away). I hadn't heard of the store until I found this book in the library.
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This anthology is defintiley worth every penny. It has some really awsome stories from some of the genres best authors (i.e. Richard Laymon, Whitley Strieber, Ray Bradbury, etc.) and newcomers (i.e Lisa Morton, etc.) one of my favorite stories was from Steve Niles of the "30 days of night" fame. It was about a private eye names Cal Mcdonald who goes against a hulking cannibal. It was just one of the many greatly horrifying stories in this book. Pick it up and do yourself a favor.
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If you had told me even a few months ago I would be reading and enjoying a horror collection, I would have thought you were crazy. However, I picked up a collection somewhere along the way and had it around the house, and picked it up when looking for something to read, and found I had liked horror all my life---I just didn't call it that. I liked scary sci-fi, stories with a dark twist, supernatural tales of evil...but not HORROR, no! Well, they all are horror, and I decided to press my luck and try another anthology, and again I found I liked almost every story a lot! I think what I liked the most here was the variety---the stories ranged from aliens on another planet to gang revenge to Dickens-like storytelling to reluctant future-seers to lots more. I never know what the subsequent tale would be like. I can't say the book overall totally blew me away with the brilliance of every story, but I certainly was happy reading. My favorite story was Kaddish, by Whitley Strieber, an amazing tale of life under an ultra-conservative, ultra-religious US government which still manages to make us feel for those in power as they come to slightly realize what the fullness of their political dreams really means. The foreshadowing of talking of a hot February day early in the account was extremely skillful writing.
I am eager to read a lot more horror anthologies, but I'm glad I ran across this one early in my days of reading all of them!
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Maybe I have a short attention span, maybe I'm just a dummy. I loved this book. Not classic horror, which I've been reading since the age of ten w/ Carrie being my introduction. However, I believe there were a lot of good, solid stick with you tales in this anthology. I am not one of those fans who knows the genre inside and out, but I feel the true definition of horror is those stories that stick with you throughout the years and refuse to let go. "The Long Walk" is my best example. It may not be true horror, but...how haunting. There are several in this anthology that will bubble up from time to time. And true to my ADHD personality, I loved the shortness of each. Nothing boring. If I didn't like something, it was soon over and on to a new tale. Lots and lots of stick with you tales, very few disappointments. Can't wait for the subsequent one.
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The editors of Dark Delicacies may have intended to fashion a memorable collection of horror short fiction, but what they actually created is something less. Most of the stories are fairly slight, lacking in suspense and scariness. Two of them are just goofs or gags, Strieber's "Kaddish" and Holder's "Twelve-Steppin'." The Strieber story read much more like a political statement to me and lacked coherence and cohesiveness. The editors mixed stories by a few familiar writers with several more new names, and therein lies one of the main problems with this collection. Most of the stories by the big guns are decent enough -- in fact, the Bradbury and Campbell entries are particularly strong -- but the material by the unknowns is generally very lightweight and entirely forgettable.
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