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Title: The Mammoth Book of Terror (Mammoth Book) by Stephen Jones ISBN: 0-88184-622-8 Publisher: Carroll & Graf Publishers Pub. Date: 01 January, 1991 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: give us the terror
Comment: this is an interesting collection. 4 great stories by Tuttle, Chetwynd-Hayes, and others. a few ok stories here too. that makes it pretty good for an anthology. well picked. not bad invented stories. more plot-driven stories than in most anthologies.
Rating: 5
Summary: variety is the spice of life
Comment: There are only two other horror anthologies that I think are better than this one, and those two really ARE classics (THE DARK DESCENT and GREAT TALES OF TERROR AND THE SUPERNATURAL) Not only are the stories in this anthology very good, but offer a very wide variety of horror tales. Many different "flavors" of terror are available in this collection, from nice suspensful terror, to really visceral horror at something unspeakable occurring, to the completely physical revulsion to seeing a living mammal pulped in a feed thresher. Nice touch, that. There are vampires and Things Out of Time, possession tales and Mysterious Strangers. My favorites included: a short gothic horror novel ("Murgunstrumm" by Hugh B. Cave), Lumley's Lovecraftian "The House of the Temple", a real gem by Ramsey Campbell ("Out of Copyright") that ought to make the most jaundiced reader of horror think a little whenever s/he thumbs open a familiar text, and a simply AWESOME story by Lisa Tuttle ("The Horse Lord"). Rober Bloch's "Yugoslaves" shows why he's a master, and "The Jumpity-Jim" by R. Chetwyd-Hayes is a pretty nasty little tale. These are just the very best of the stories there; all of them are pretty good. Stephen Laws' "Junk" deserves mention as well. Jeesh. "The Black Drama" might give away its punchline a bit too soon, but it still provides some nice pulpy entertainment. All in all, this collection EARNS its 11 bucks worth of chills.
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Title: The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror (Mammoth Book of Best New Horror) by Stephen Jones ISBN: 0786710632 Publisher: Carroll & Graf Publishers Pub. Date: 01 November, 2002 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: The Dark Descent (Dark Descent) by Clive Barker, Ray Bradbury, John Collier, Shirley Jackson, Stephen King, Joyce Carol Oates, David G. Hartwell ISBN: 0312862172 Publisher: Tor Books Pub. Date: 15 January, 1997 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror, Vol. 14 by Stephen Jones ISBN: 0786712376 Publisher: Carroll & Graf Publishers Pub. Date: 01 November, 2003 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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Title: Great Tales of Terror and the Supernatural (Modern Library (Hardcover)) by Phyllis Cerf Wagner, Herbert Wise ISBN: 0679601287 Publisher: Modern Library Pub. Date: 01 October, 1994 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: The Black Spiral: Twisted Tales of Terror by F. Paul Wilson, Richard D. Weber, Ramsey Campbell, Tim Lebbon ISBN: 1897013221 Publisher: Cyber-Pulp Pub. Date: 01 December, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.99 |
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