I read the vast majority of them but I'll be honest, it one of them began to bore me or was just flat out bad, I would just cut my losses and move on. This collection of terror/supernatural stories is over 1000 pages. How anyone can do that with words on a page is one of the great unsolved mysteries of this world.Ī previous reviewer called this collection a beast and they were right. Not all these stories are scary, but some of them will work you up to such a pitch of fear that the slightest noise will make you jump three feet in the air, guaranteed. Benson (When auntie wants your blood you run like hell) “They” by Rudyard Kipling (My god, how is it possible to write such exquisite prose?) The Great God Pan by Arthur Machen (Feeding Pagan Gods Strictly Forbidden) James (Never blow into a random whistle my lad, never!)
Oh, Whistle and I’ll Come to You My Lad by M.R. Leiningen and the Ants by Carl Stephenson (World War III imagined as Man vs.
Rappaccini’s Daughter by Nathaniel Hawthorne (Falling in love with any plant, let alone a poisonous one, is a bad idea)
A Rose for Emily by William Faulkner (How far will you go to hold on to the one you love?) Here are my favourites, in no particular order: Easy boy, easy.įor a synopsis of each story I recommend this excellent review. I carried my Modern Library edition around with me for a month and now that I’m finished reading it I already miss the feel of its weight in my hands like that of a demonic newborn child. Each reader will have his/her favourites, but the sheer range of theme and tone is stupendous for this type of anthology. There is hardly a dull moment in the 52 tales collected here, which span 100 years from good old Balzac to that creep of creeps H.P. With an introduction and notes by Phyllis Cerf Wagner and Herbert Wise.Ĭlassic anthology of horror stories first published in 1944. "There is not a story in this collection that does not have the breath of life, achieve the full suspension of disbelief that is so particularly important in type of fiction," wrote the Saturday Review. Sayers ("Suspicion"), and Ernest Hemingway ("The Killers"). Lovecraft ("The Dunwich Horror"), Dorothy L. Forster ("The Celestial Omnibus"), Isak Dinesen ("The Sailor-Boys Tale"), H.P. Included as well are such modern masters as Algernon Blackwood ("Ancient Sorceries"), Walter de la Mare ("Out of the Deep"), E.M. Henry ("The Furnished Room"), Rudyard Kipling ("They"), and H.G. Represented in the anthology are such distinguished spell weavers as Edgar Allen Poe ("The Black Cat"), Wilkie Collins ("A Terribly Strange Bed"), Henry James ("Sir Edmund Orme"), Guy de Maupassant ("Was It a Dream?"), O. When this longtime Modern Library favorite-filled with fifty-two stories of heart-stopping suspense-was first published in 1944, one of its biggest fans was critic Edmund Wilson, who in The New Yorker applauded what he termed a sudden revival of the appetite for tales of horror.
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