The Arbor House Treasury of Horror and the Supernatural

At only 3.37 not much of a Treasury, just a reasonable anthology. Also a case of should the editors include their own stories? Not in this book, no, given it isn't your garden variety original anthology. Some good stories but not many standouts to be found here. Arbor House Treasury Of Horror and the Supernatural : Hop-Frog - Edgar Allan Poe Arbor House Treasury Of Horror and the Supernatural : Rappaccini's Daughter - Nathaniel Hawthorne Arbor House Treasury Of Horror and the Supernatural : Squire Toby's Will - Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu Arbor House Treasury Of Horror and the Supernatural : The Squaw - Bram Stoker Arbor House Treasury Of Horror and the Supernatural : The Jolly Corner - Henry James Arbor House Treasury Of Horror and the Supernatural : Man Overboard! - Winston Churchill Arbor House Treasury Of Horror and the Supernatural : The Hand - Theodore Dreiser Arbor House Treasury Of Horror and the Supernatural : The Valley of the Spiders - H. G. Wells Arbor House Treasury Of Horror and the Supernatural : The Middle Toe of the Right Foot - Ambrose Bierce Arbor House Treasury Of Horror and the Supernatural : Pickman's Model - H. P. Lovecraft Arbor House Treasury Of Horror and the Supernatural : Yours Truly Jack the Ripper - Robert Bloch Arbor House Treasury Of Horror and the Supernatural : The Screaming Laugh - Cornell Woolrich Arbor House Treasury Of Horror and the Supernatural : A Rose for Emily - William Faulkner Arbor House Treasury Of Horror and the Supernatural : Bianca's Hands - Theodore Sturgeon Arbor House Treasury Of Horror and the Supernatural : The Girl with the Hungry Eyes - Fritz Leiber Arbor House Treasury Of Horror and the Supernatural : Shut a Final Door - Truman Capote Arbor House Treasury Of Horror and the Supernatural : Come and Go Mad - Fredric Brown Arbor House Treasury Of Horror and the Supernatural : The Scarlet King - Evan Hunter Arbor House Treasury Of Horror and the Supernatural : Sticks - Karl Edward Wagner Arbor House Treasury Of Horror and the Supernatural : Sardonicus - Ray Russell Arbor House Treasury Of Horror and the Supernatural : A Teacher's Rewards - Robert S. Phillips Arbor House Treasury Of Horror and the Supernatural : The Roaches - Thomas M. Disch Arbor House Treasury Of Horror and the Supernatural : The Jam - Henry Slesar Arbor House Treasury Of Horror and the Supernatural : Black Wind - Bill Pronzini Arbor House Treasury Of Horror and the Supernatural : The Road to Mictlantecutli - Adobe James Arbor House Treasury Of Horror and the Supernatural : Passengers - Robert Silverberg Arbor House Treasury Of Horror and the Supernatural : The Explosives Expert - John Lutz Arbor House Treasury Of Horror and the Supernatural : Call First - Ramsey Campbell Arbor House Treasury Of Horror and the Supernatural : The Fly - Arthur Porges Arbor House Treasury Of Horror and the Supernatural : Namesake - Elizabeth Morton Arbor House Treasury Of Horror and the Supernatural : Camps - Jack M.

It's hard to imagine a better collection of horror stories, with chilling tales by Edgar Allen Poe, Bram Stoker, H.P. Lovecraft, William Faulkner, Truman Capote, and a host of more modern authors, including Joyce Carol Oates and the Michael Jordan of horror writing, Stephen King (King also writes an introduction). This book is special because it pays homage to one of the pulpiest of pulp genres, horror, and combines it with a span of authors who have a significant literary pedigree. By presenting stories that are cerebral as well as scary, and by giving classic authors such as Poe their due, the book might be slightly less accessible to someone who has grown up equating horror writing with, say, early works by Dean Koontz. But anyone who goes into this collection with an open mind is sure to be blown away by the horror- the sheer horror- of it all.

41 classic tales of horror and the supernatural are presented in 599 pages by the editors Pronzini, Malzberg, and Greenberg in two sections:Grandmasters -- Poe [Hop Frog], Stoker [The Squaw], Bierce, Faulkner, Sturgeon, and others including Winston Churchill [Man Overboard].Modern Masters -- Hunter [The Scarlet King], Wagner [Sticks], Russell, Kornbluth, Sheckley, and others including Stephen King [The Crate], who also provides a nine-page Introduction in which he writes:"If [this book] proves anything, it proves that the tale of horror and/or the supernatural is serious, is important, is necessary... not only to those human beings who read to think, but to those vast numbers of readers who read to feel".