Rating: 
Summary: Wonderfully eerie
Review: I have been reading horror fiction for most of my life. I am a rabid Lovecraft fan, and have read hundreds of novels and short story collections. I consider myself discriminating, only reading the best in horror fiction -- the stuff that really scares the hell out of you and makes you fear the dark.That being said, this is now my favorite short horror story collection. The unsettling feeling that these stories leave you with will linger for quite some time.
Rating:
Summary: Wonderfully eerie
Review: I have been reading horror fiction for most of my life. I am a rabid Lovecraft fan, and have read hundreds of novels and short story collections. I consider myself discriminating, only reading the best in horror fiction -- the stuff that really scares the hell out of you and makes you fear the dark. That being said, this is now my favorite short horror story collection. The unsettling feeling that these stories leave you with will linger for quite some time.
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Summary: Toybox of Irony
Review: I have to say, after the grand forward, I was expecting more from these stories. A lot of them left me feeling like a Reader's Digest version of a Twilight Zone episode.
I didn't think most of the stories were long enough. Yes, it's a short story anthology, but I think more could have been gotten out of the some stories if they were longer.
Most of them weren't particularly scary having a Twilight Zone type twist at the end instead. Having read it a couple days ago, only two or three stories really stick out in my mind.
If you need something to read to kill the time, it's worth a look.
Rating: 
Summary: Creepy and satisfying
Review: I very much enjoyed this book. A good short story is like a miniature masterpiece, without a word out of place. This collection is chock-full of them. The story-within-a-story that binds them all together is imaginative. I also felt that all the stories were unique, not merely a rehashing of someone else's ideas. Each story kept me guessing, the way good horror should. The prose is clean but lyrical. I highly recommend this compilation if goosebumps are what you crave.
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Summary: So glad to finally have this available
Review: I've been waiting for this book to come out for fifteen years! Al Sarrantonio was about the best horror short story writer in the 80s and 90s (one of the stories in this book was a finalist for the Bram Stoker Award, I'm pretty sure) but his stories appeared all over the place, in Shadows, in Whispers, in Twilight Zone magazine, etc. It's great to have them in one place. But I want more!
Rating:
Summary: Harvest of Horrors
Review: Sarrantonio is a fine horror writer. This collection of his best short stories is excellent. Take a dash of Bradbury, a little Charles Addams, and blend with Sarrantonio and you have a great moody and haunting blend. This is one to read on a crisp October evening with a cup of apple cider at hand!
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Summary: Great collection
Review: This is one of the better horror collections in a while. Just about all of the stories provide the requisite goosebumps of creepy tales. Ranks up there with some of King's/Bachman's collections. Be sure to check out the boy that runs on electricity. Great addition to any good horror collection.
Rating:
Summary: GREAT GREAT COLLECTION
Review: Two of the stories in this volume were reprinted in Karl Wagner's Horror Best Of volumes, two years in a row, as the last stories in the book. That usually means they were the best. They're "Pumpkin Head" and "The Man With Legs," the first two stories in TOYBOX. The rest are just as good.
Rating:
Summary: GREAT GREAT COLLECTION
Review: Two of the stories in this volume were reprinted in Karl Wagner's Horror Best Of volumes, two years in a row, as the last stories in the book. That usually means they were the best. They're "Pumpkin Head" and "The Man With Legs," the first two stories in TOYBOX. The rest are just as good.
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