A Book of Horrors
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3.8 • 20 Ratings
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- $12.99
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- $12.99
Publisher Description
A collection of original horror and dark fantasy from the world's best writers, including Stephen King and John Ajvide Lindqvist
Many of us grew up on The Pan Book of Horror Stories and its later incarnations, Dark Voices and Dark Terrors (The Gollancz Book of Horror), which won the World Fantasy Award, the Horror Critics' Guild Award and the British Fantasy Award, but for a decade or more there has been no non-themed anthology of original horror fiction published in the mainstream. Now that horror has returned to the bookshelves, it is time for a regular anthology of brand-new fiction by the best and brightest in the field, both the Big Names and the most talented newcomers including:
- Ramsey Campbell
- Peter Crowther
- Dennis Etchison
- Elizabeth Hand
- Brian Hodge
- Caitlin R. Kiernan
- Stephen King
- John Ajvide Lindqvist
- Richard Christian Matheson
- Reggie Oliver
- Robert Shearman
- Angela Slatter
- Michael Marshall Smith
- Lisa Tuttle
A Book of Horrors will be the foremost in the field: an eclectic collection of the very best chiller fiction from across the world.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Jones (The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror) passes up the coy and cute for the purely frightening in this exemplary anthology for those who "understand and appreciate the worth and impact of a scary story." In "The Little Green God of Agony," Stephen King conjures up a horrific medical situation with a final twist worthy of a sinister O. Henry. In "Getting It Wrong," Ramsey Campbell dials into the world of phone quiz shows where errors are not tolerated. Noisy neighbors provoke personal collapse and family dissolution in Robert Shearman's "Alice Through the Plastic Sheet." Atmospherics are as crucial to traditional horror as apparitions, and Reggie Oliver's "A Child's Problem" pits a young boy against a malevolent uncle and butler on an isolated British estate, while in the haunting "Near Zennor," Elizabeth Hand sends widowed American architect Jeffrey wandering through a spectral Cornish landscape in a search for understanding. The abundance of talent will provide ample delights and frights for anyone in search of true classic horror.
