The Horror Hall of Fame

Book Overview

This collection of horror stories of the modern era begins with "The Fall of the House of Usher" by Edgar Allan Poe, and closes with the novella "The Reach" by Stephen King. Ambrose Bierce, Algernon... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0881848808
• ISBN13: 9780881848809
• Release Date: January 1992
• Publisher: Carroll & Graf Publishers
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Not Free SF Reader

An anthology that came about from discussions at the 1981 World Fantasy Convention - so that is the upper limit on story inclusion. Apparently a poll was taken, and these were the 18 stories that garnered the highest number of votes. Looks like the voters indeed did a very good job coming up with their favorites. There is a several page introduction tracing the history of horror stories, briefly, from the gentle English ghost story, to Weird Tales and Unknown Worlds up to Rosemary's Baby and the Stephen King phenomenon. Also, a fairly attractive biography section, with a long paragraph on each author included in the book. Horror Hall of Fame : The Fall of the House of Usher - Edgar Allan Poe Horror Hall of Fame : Green Tea - Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu Horror Hall of Fame : The Damned Thing - Ambrose Bierce Horror Hall of Fame : The Yellow Sign - Robert W. Chambers Horror Hall of Fame : The Monkey's Paw - W. W. Jacobs Horror Hall of Fame : The White People - Arthur Machen Horror Hall of Fame : The Willows - Algernon Blackwood Horror Hall of Fame : Casting the Runes - M. R. James Horror Hall of Fame : The Graveyard Rats - Henry Kuttner Horror Hall of Fame : Pigeons from Hell - Robert E. Howard Horror Hall of Fame : It - Theodore Sturgeon Horror Hall of Fame : Smoke Ghost - Fritz Leiber Horror Hall of Fame : Yours Truly Jack the Ripper - Robert Bloch Horror Hall of Fame : The Small As5a5in - Ray Bradbury Horror Hall of Fame : The Whimper of Whipped Dogs - Harlan Ellison Horror Hall of Fame : Calling Card - Ramsey Campbell Horror Hall of Fame : Coin of the Realm - Charles L. Grant Horror Hall of Fame : The Reach [Do the Dead Sing?] - Stephen King Blame Wodewick. 4 out of 5 Hesselius investigates a spectre that tends to not want to meet him. 3.5 out of 5 Invisible monster. 4 out of 5 Serpentskin books - don't get 'em. 3.5 out of 5 Wishes not so handy. 4 out of 5 Be choosy with literature and statuary. 3 out of 5 Wind in the tree monsters. 4.5 out of 5 Knocking the writing problem on the head. 3.5 out of 5 Mummy, it's a coffin. 4.5 out of 5 A man is murdered, and in no ordinary fashion. When law enforcement investigates this is the story he gets from a witness: "and my G0d, sir, he was dead! His head had been split open. I saw brains and clotted blood oozing down his face, and his face" It appears there is a zuvembie in town, the long awaited aftermath of a property that had white women mistreating their black slaves, badly. 4 out of 5 Mud man grandpa bones deals with hunters people until all washed up. 4 out of 5 Spectral look. 3.5 out of 5 Doc, you are actually right at the sharp end, stoopid. 4.5 out of 5 Rugrat's gonna get me, maybe I should get it first? 4 out of 5 City god call. 3.5 out of 5 First foot, slimy. 3.5 out of 5 Osiris toll. 4 out of 5 Mainland ghost, gran. 4 out of 5