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Summary: 5 stars!
Review: "Masterpieces" is correct. This book is hard to put down. Usually when reading a collection gathered on a mutual theme, the mind of the reader eventually numbs from the sameness of the stories. Not so with this anthology. Each story is unique, unpredictable, and well written. I enjoyed it greatly. I give it the highest praise possible here--5 stars.
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Summary: 5 stars!
Review: "Masterpieces" is correct. This book is hard to put down. Usually when reading a collection gathered on a mutual theme, the mind of the reader eventually numbs from the sameness of the stories. Not so with this anthology. Each story is unique, unpredictable, and well written. I enjoyed it greatly. I give it the highest praise possible here--5 stars.
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Summary: 5 stars!
Review: "Masterpieces" is correct. This book is hard to put down. Usually when reading a collection gathered on a mutual theme, the mind of the reader eventually numbs from the sameness of the stories. Not so with this anthology. Each story is unique, unpredictable, and well written. I enjoyed it greatly. I give it the highest praise possible here--5 stars.
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Summary: A Pretty Good Collection
Review: I picked this book up at the thrift store for about thirty-five cents, expecting the usual collection of stories that I have probably read countless times before in other anthologies.While it did have the requisite Poe and Lovecraft, I was pleasantly surprised by the offbeat and rare pieces of work this book offered. Some standouts include "Graveyard Shift" by Richard Matheson (immeasurably better than the King story of the same name, "The Night Wire" by H.F. Arnold, and Orson Scott Card's "Eumenides In The Fourth Floor Lavatory". The roster also includes such authors as Dylan Thomas, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Theodore Sturgeon. All in all, a good collection with more than a few surprises.
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Summary: The Best Horror Anthology I have ever read
Review: The words I am about to write will not do justice to this anthology. If you are a fan of horror short stories, get this before you get anything else. None of the stories are bad, and many are terrfying and unforgettable. Theodore Sturgeon's "The Professor's Teddy Bear" is unique, grotesque, and it will stick with you for months. "His Unconquerable Enemy" has a gripping climax that will amaze you. "The Bottle Imp" is a grand tale of treachery, pain, and sacrifice. "Hop-Frog" is a Poe selection that is every bit as brilliant as his more famous works, and in traditional Poe fashion it is a tale of revenge. I could go on about every story in here but instead I will just very strongly recommend this to all fans of horror literature.
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Summary: The Best Horror Anthology I have ever read
Review: The words I am about to write will not do justice to this anthology. If you are a fan of horror short stories, get this before you get anything else. None of the stories are bad, and many are terrfying and unforgettable. Theodore Sturgeon's "The Professor's Teddy Bear" is unique, grotesque, and it will stick with you for months. "His Unconquerable Enemy" has a gripping climax that will amaze you. "The Bottle Imp" is a grand tale of treachery, pain, and sacrifice. "Hop-Frog" is a Poe selection that is every bit as brilliant as his more famous works, and in traditional Poe fashion it is a tale of revenge. I could go on about every story in here but instead I will just very strongly recommend this to all fans of horror literature.
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Summary: An excellent compilation of horror stories
Review: This book has every horror short story that is needed. Whether your looking for a story with creatures, lovers, gods, a beast within, ghosts, and more this is the book that you need. Some of the reknown authors are: Stoker, Stevenson, Shelley, Poe, Tolkien and many more. There is some tedious works involved in this book, but 99% of the stories are worth reading again and again. I personally enjoyed an excerpt from Tolkien's original print of The Hobbit which let me see the changes from the original version and the version changed to coincide with the Lord of the Rings. I would recommend this book to anyone looking for a scare. The beauty about this book is that it contains short stories, so if you have only a few minutes to spare, then it will even suit your needs.
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Summary: An excellent compilation of horror stories
Review: This book has every horror short story that is needed. Whether your looking for a story with creatures, lovers, gods, a beast within, ghosts, and more this is the book that you need. Some of the reknown authors are: Stoker, Stevenson, Shelley, Poe, Tolkien and many more. There is some tedious works involved in this book, but 99% of the stories are worth reading again and again. I personally enjoyed an excerpt from Tolkien's original print of The Hobbit which let me see the changes from the original version and the version changed to coincide with the Lord of the Rings. I would recommend this book to anyone looking for a scare. The beauty about this book is that it contains short stories, so if you have only a few minutes to spare, then it will even suit your needs.
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Summary: Mind-boggling collection
Review: This is an absolute treasure! Stoker, Lovecraft, Poe, Shelley, Asimov, Bierce, Tolkien are all here. You'll also find Richard Matheson, Tanith Lee, Sheridan LeFanu, Orson Scott Card (with one of the most disturbing, chilling tales I've ever read), Ogden Nash, Tennessee Williams, Jack London, Walt Whitman (is this high-school english class! ), Robert Bloch and more. Each selection comes with a little background note providing some info about the author, history about that particular story and recommendations for other related readings. This collection is fantastic; it doesn't disappoint. English class would have been infinitely more interesting with this kind of reading!
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