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Weird Vampire Tales: 30 Blood-Chilling Stories from the Weird Fiction Pulps

1 review

Gramercy, 1992

An Excellent Collection
I thought this was a magnificent collection of pulp vampire tales, including stories by Robert E. Howard, Clark Ashton Smith, Seabury Quinn, Carl Jacobi, Hugh B. Cave, Robert Bloch and others.

100 Astounding Little Alien Stories

1 review
Robert Weinberg, Stefan R. Dziemianowicz, ...

Barnes Noble Books, 1996

Short, Short Fiction
Some great authors and some great stories. I really like the short short story and these authors do it well. I recommend this book to all fans of spec fic or short stories.

Horror: The Best of the Year, 2008 Edition (Horror the Best of the Year)
Stefan R. Dziemianowicz

Prime Books, 2008

The best stories of the year: here is a collection of the best horror prose written in 2007, by some of the genre's greatest authors, and selected by two of horror's most respected editors.

The Fear Planet And Other Unusual Destinations (The Readers Bloch)

1 review
Robert Bloch

Subterranean Press, 2005

Enjoyable ride
Robert Bloch is quintessentially known as the author of stunners like "Yours Truly, Jack the Ripper" and "A Toy for Juliette". The stories presented in this collection are paler compared to them, but still they are enjoyable in terms of lucidity, irony and humour (there is a surprisingly generous sample of the latter, esp.in the stories like "How bug-eyed was my monster?" and "Beep no more, my ...

Weird Tales: 32 Unearthed Terrors

5 reviews
Stefan R. Dziemianowicz

Random House Value Publishing, 1988

Weird Tales
This book purports to reprint the best story of the year for each year the magazine "Weird Tales" was published, from 1923 through 1954. Not surprisingly, many of these tales range from creepy to truly scary. Two of the stories, C.M. Eddy's "The Loved Dead," and Robert Barbour Johnson's "Far Below," I had actually heard of in urban legends passed around in grade school and middle school ...

100 Crooked Little Crime Stories (100 Stories)
Robert H. Weinberg, Stefan R. Dziemianowicz, ...

Sterling, 2004

From the puzzle tale in Alexandre Dumas?s ?The Man of the Knife? to Gerald Tollesfrud?s police procedural ?Switch,? this richly varied collection spans more than 200 years and encompasses virtually every kind of crime story. Ernest Leong?s ?Incense Sticks? offers a taste of the noir thriller. Allen Beack?s ?Always Together? features dark, bloody fratricide. Ferenc Molnar?s ?The Best Policy? tells a fascinating tale of embezzlement, while Gary ...

100 Wicked Little Witch Stories (100 Stories)

3 reviews
Martin H. Greenberg

Sterling, 2003

A wonderful collection !
100 Wicked Little Witch Stories is a wonderful collection of short stories covering every kind of witch. I love this book and have gone back to it many times because it has such variety. Within this book you will find stories that are funny, loveable, charming, and ones that are downright scary. (The kind that keep you up at night!) All in all, this book is a must have for anyone who ...

Rivals of Weird Tales: 30 Great Fantasy and Horror Stories from the Weird Fiction Pulps

2 reviews
Martin H. Greenberg, Robert Weinberg, ...

Random House Value Publishing, 1990

Great for creepy bedtime stories...
This is a collection of short horror/weird stories orginally published in various pulp magazines from 1920's to 1950's. Some are better than others, but all are very entertaining. The stories are obviously dated, but they give a sense of nostalgia...like sitting in your grandparents' attic and discovering long forgotten treasures that someone once dearly loved. If your into that Lovecraft ...

100 Ghastly Little Ghost Stories

2 reviews

Barnes & Noble, 2003

Great compilation
Let's get the stinkers out of the way first. Oscar Wilde's "The Sphinx Without a Secret" is a story without a ghost, or even a fright. Very disappointing from such a talented writer. That is by far the worst story, so let's not dwell on it. "The Sixth Tree" shows promise but suffers from a predictable ending, though it does offer a good little moral about man's misplaced reliance on science and, ...

Famous Fantastic Mysteries (1st Edition)

1 review
Bram Stoker, Arthur C. Clarke, ...

Gramercy Books, Random House Value, 1991

Table of Contents...
"Step into the weird and unpredictable world of classic fantasy and horror in this spine-tingling anthology of stories and novellas from the incomparable pulp magazines Famous Fantastic Mysteries and Fantastic Novels." 1. Behind the Curtain by Francis Stevens. 2. Pegasus by Henry Kuttner. 3.The Face in the Abyss by A. Merritt. 4. Fungus Isle by Philip M. Fisher. 5. John Ovington Returns by Max ...

100 Dastardly Little Detective Stories (100 Stories)

3 reviews

Sterling, 2003

fun to just pick up and read
"100 Dastardly Little Detective Stories" selected by Robert H. Weinberg, Stefan Dziemianowicz & Martin H. Greenberg, © 1993 There are so many stories in this book I do not know if I read them all. It was fun to just pick up and read for ten or fifteen minutes a story, sit back and think about what happened in it, and read the next one. The pause to think is important because the stories are ...

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