I felt like I was missing part of the plot in relation to the POV character’s connection to the book in question toward the end, but I was compelled to keep reading nonetheless. (****) Solidly engaging, even if a bit confusing in places. (**) It ended on an interesting Question, I’ll give it that, but I was honestly bored. The Dying Art – Glen Damien Campbell (2014) Perhaps a re-read in the future may yield a better opinion. It felt primarily like a creepy encounter with a sick old man and I couldn’t much feel interested in that. (*) I simply couldn’t get engaged in this one. The Watcher by the Threshold – John Buchan (1900) (***) I don’t know that I’d consider it out and out horror, but it had a folktale feeling to it I enjoyed. (***) The concept wasn’t as unusual as the previous work, but somehow it was more engaging to read. Solidly Okay.Very Lovecraftian sort of concept, here, with a feeling almost more alien than monstrous. (***) A very Lovecraftian sort of concept, here, with the feeling of something more alien than monstrous. (****) This was an interesting twist of a real medical phenomenon with something altogether horrific and disturbing. It wasn’t entirely unworthy the time, though.
There were copy and formatting mistakes in just about every story, from paragraphs split in strange places, spelling or spacing errors, and at one instance, a number in place of the word that belonged there. The book itself is lovely, but it gives the impression of something put together and sent to press quickly. WoodĪn interesting collection, I will say, but split a bit too even between stories I legitimately enjoyed and ones I wouldn’t have picked up on their own. "The Dew of Heaven, Like Ashes", by William R. "Deep-sixed Without a Depth Gauge", by Andrew J. "The Body Snatcher", by Robert Louis Stevenson
"The Premature Burial", by Edgar Allan Poe "The Masque of the Red Death", by Edgar Allan Poe "The Magnificat of Devils", by James Lecky "The Man in the Ambry", by Gwendolyn Kiste
"The Challenge From Beyond", by Robert E. "The Gateway of the Monster", by William Hope Hodgson "Young Goodman Brown", by Nathaniel Hawthorne "Worth the Having", by Michael Paul Gonzalez "The Murdered Cousin", by Sheridan Le Fanu "The Leather Funnel", by Arthur Conan Doyle "The Watcher by the Threshold", by John Buchan Lovecraft, Edgar Allan Poe, Mary Shelley, Bram Stoker, Nathaniel Hawthorne and William Hope Hodgson are cast with previously unpublished stories by some of the best writers of horror today.Ī dazzling collection of the most gripping tales of horror, vividly told. Tales of shadows and voices in the dark from the likes of H.P. A deluxe edition of original and classic short stories, packed with monsters, vampires and a host of weird creatures.
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