Ok so I’ve read 50 of the 100 stories in this collection and I'm going to take a little break. You see, I've been having these Ray Bradbury dreams. Yo Ok so I’ve read 50 of the 100 stories in this collection and I'm going to take a little break. You see, I've been having these Ray Bradbury dreams. You know the kind where you're an octogenarian trapped inside the body of a child who can't grow past 10 years of age and you have to keep moving from family to family in different parts of the country so that nobody catches on you're some sort of a chronological freak? Or the kind where you find yourself marooned on the planet Venus where the torrential rains never let up, to the point that your flesh begins to decompose before you're even dead, and if you don't soon find someplace dry to shelter in it’s going to melt right off your bones like a popsicle in the sun? Or how about the one where you give birth to a baby who, you are convinced, wants to murder you for no better reason than revenge for being born? Or...but I'll stop here lest you should have Bradbury dreams yourself and blame this reviewer for your sleepless nights....more
Classic anthology of horror stories first published in 1944. There is hardly a dull moment in the 52 tales collected hIt was a dark and story night...
Classic anthology of horror stories first published in 1944. 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. Lovecraft. Each reader will have his/her favourites, but the sheer range of theme and tone is stupendous for this type of anthology. 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. Easy boy, easy.
— A Rose for Emily by William Faulkner (How far will you go to hold on to the one you love?) — Rappaccini’s Daughter by Nathaniel Hawthorne (Falling in love with any plant, let alone a poisonous one, is a bad idea) — Leiningen and the Ants by Carl Stephenson (World War III imagined as Man vs. Insect) — Oh, Whistle and I’ll Come to You My Lad by M.R. James (Never blow into a random whistle my lad, never!) — The Great God Pan by Arthur Machen (Feeding Pagan Gods Strictly Forbidden) — “They” by Rudyard Kipling (My god, how is it possible to write such exquisite prose?) — Mrs Amsworth by E.F. Benson (When auntie wants your blood you run like hell)
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. How anyone can do that with words on a page is one of the great unsolved mysteries of this world....more
Highlights for me were: "Young Goodman Brown" by Hawthorne, "The Yellow Wallpaper" by C.P. Gilman, "Afterward" by Edith Wharton, "Absolute Evil" by JuHighlights for me were: "Young Goodman Brown" by Hawthorne, "The Yellow Wallpaper" by C.P. Gilman, "Afterward" by Edith Wharton, "Absolute Evil" by Julian Hawthorne (son of Nathaniel), and "The Thing on the Doorstep" by that creep H.P. Lovecraft....more
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There was a man called Humbert Humbert Whose age was not far from a hundred He married my mother But me he would smother With the care of a delicate hunter
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