The Night Wind Howls

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Summary: The Night Wind Howls
Review: If you don't even open the cover, buy this book for theincredibly wonderful/wicked dustjacket depicting a sadistic Punch (ofthe "Punch & Judy" puppet show fame). The jacket is thebest "blurb" for the contents - unexpected. This is Cowles' complete (apparently, this is EVERYTHING) works. This is wonderful in and unto itself since the author's abilities (and Cowles abilities vary from the sublime to the mediocre) can be seen over his entire writing career. These are not your typical modern, overtly sexual (ie-Clegg, Lee, Ketchum) horror stories. By modern tastes, these are not even horrific. Most of stories read with a limit of peversity that reside well in the E.F. Benson or H.P. Lovecraft school of shock/gore. These are wonderfully scary stories (not so much horrifying) without the charged libido. Robert W Chambers and H.R. Wakefield wrote "thinking person's" ghost stories - Cowles' works are exactly in the same genre. It's too bad that college courses do not offer more classes on the evolution and place of horrific literature - if they did, this book would be a definite recommendation to a good reading list. If you want to simply unplug your brain and "vedge" on gore - don't buy this book. ...if you like a more well-rounded view of what horror was in "Lovecraftian" era. You will get ...entertainment out of the small-spaced, tightly packed pages. Then again, I thought the freaky dustjacket was worth the expense !

Rating:
Summary: The Night Wind Howls
Review: If you don't even open the cover, buy this book for theincredibly wonderful/wicked dustjacket depicting a sadistic Punch (ofthe "Punch & Judy" puppet show fame). The jacket is thebest "blurb" for the contents - unexpected. This is Cowles' complete (apparently, this is EVERYTHING) works. This is wonderful in and unto itself since the author's abilities (and Cowles abilities vary from the sublime to the mediocre) can be seen over his entire writing career. These are not your typical modern, overtly sexual (ie-Clegg, Lee, Ketchum) horror stories. By modern tastes, these are not even horrific. Most of stories read with a limit of peversity that reside well in the E.F. Benson or H.P. Lovecraft school of shock/gore. These are wonderfully scary stories (not so much horrifying) without the charged libido. Robert W Chambers and H.R. Wakefield wrote "thinking person's" ghost stories - Cowles' works are exactly in the same genre. It's too bad that college courses do not offer more classes on the evolution and place of horrific literature - if they did, this book would be a definite recommendation to a good reading list. If you want to simply unplug your brain and "vedge" on gore - don't buy this book. ...if you like a more well-rounded view of what horror was in "Lovecraftian" era. You will get ...entertainment out of the small-spaced, tightly packed pages. Then again, I thought the freaky dustjacket was worth the expense !