100 Hair-Raising Little Horror Stories

by Al Sarrantonio (Editor)

Other authorsMartin H. Greenberg (Editor)
Hardcover, 1993

Status

Available

Call number

FIC G Sar

Publication

Barnes & Noble Books

Pages

496

Description

Scared? You will be! Feel your nerves jangle and chills run up and down your spine thanks to the hair-raising genius of Edgar Allan Poe, Mark Twain, E. F. Benson, H. P. Lovecraft, Fritz Leiber, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Stephen Crane, Charles Dickens, Robert Barr, and many others who know well how to manipulate a reader's emotions. From Washington Irving comes "The Adventure of My Grandfather" and from Saki, "The Cobweb." Bill Pronzini plays a horrifying game of "Peekaboo," while Frances Garfield portrays "The House at Evening" to alarming effect. This unique and very special collection is like a carnival ride of terror that you'll want to go on again and again.

Description

Table of Contents:
The Adventure of My Grandfather
p. 1
The Adventure of My Aunt
p. 8
The Adventure of the German Student
p. 12
Ants
p. 17
The Assembly of the Dead
p. 20
At the Bureau
p. 24
Babylon: 70 M.
p. 27
Berenice
p. 33
Beyond the Wall
p. 40
The Boarded Window
p. 47
Boxes
p. 51
The Candidate
p. 57
Cemetery Dance
p. 63
The Certificate
p. 66
Cheapskate
p. 70
The China Bowl
p. 72
The Cobweb
p. 79
Come to the Party
p. 84
A Curious Dream
p. 91
Dark Wings
p. 98
Dead Call
p. 104
Different Kinds of Dead
p. 108
Displaced Person
p. 113
The Disintegration of Alan
p. 116
Down by the Sea near the Great Big Rock
p. 120
Dragon Sunday
p. 124
Duck Hunt
p. 126
The Dust
p. 129
The Evil Clergyman
p. 135
Examination Day
p. 139
The Faceless Thing
p. 142
The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar
p. 147
Feeding Time
p. 155
Feeding Time
p. 161
The Final Quest
p. 164
Fish Night
p. 167
The Four-Fingered Hand
p. 174
A Ghost Story
p. 179
Give Her Hell
p. 184
The Giveaway
p. 188
The Glove
p. 192
The Grab
p. 204
The Haunted Mill or the Ruined Home
p. 210
He Kilt It with a Stick
p. 217
Heading Home
p. 222
The Hollow of the Three Hills
p. 226
The Hollow Man
p. 230
Holly, Don't Tell
p. 235
The Hound
p. 241
The Hour and the Man
p. 248
The House at Evening
p. 255
The Idea
p. 261
Identity Crisis
p. 265
In the Corn
p. 270
An Incident on Route 12
p. 274
Interview
p. 279
The Jam
p. 283
The Kirk Spook
p. 286
Making Friends
p. 292
The Marble Hands
p. 294
Mariana
p. 296
Masque
p. 301
The Middle Toe of the Right Foot
p. 305
Moving Night
p. 312
Naples
p. 316
Night Visions
p. 322
Night Deposits
p. 326
Nightshapes
p. 332
No. 1 Branch Line, The Signalman
p. 338
The Old Black Hat
p. 349
Out of the Storm
p. 351
Out of Africa
p. 355
The Oval Portrait
p. 361
Party Time
p. 364
The Passenger
p. 366
Peekaboo
p. 372
The Pitch
p. 377
The Poor
p. 385
The Rag Thing
p. 388
Rendezvous
p. 393
The Same Old Grind
p. 397
The Skeleton
p. 401
Something There Is
p. 406
Spring-Fingered Jack
p. 414
Sredni Vashtar
p. 417
The Statement of Randolph Carter
p. 421
The Story of Muhammad Din
p. 426
The Thing in the Forest
p. 429
Threshold
p. 432
Today's Special
p. 438
Topsy
p. 443
Toy
p. 450
Transfer
p. 454
Treats
p. 460
Under My Bed
p. 465
Up Under the Roof
p. 468
The Upturned Face
p. 473
We Have Always Lived in the Forest
p. 477
Where Did She Wander?
p. 485
Witness
p. 494

Collection

Barcode

1960

Language

Original language

English

Original publication date

1993

Physical description

496 p.; 8.5 inches

ISBN

1566190568 / 9781566190565

User reviews

LibraryThing member bnbookgirl
Great for horror junkies because the stories are short and quick.
LibraryThing member empress8411
As the title states, this is a tidy collection of 100 horror stories, spanning perhaps the last 150 years. Including such classic authors as Washington Irving and Edgar Allen Poe, as well as Charles Dickens, H.P. Lovecraft, Mark Twain and Stephen Crane, and others less well known outside horror,
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science fiction or mystery circles. The stories are arranged alphabetically by title. As with most collections of this size, there are always amazing stories and boring stories, but this collection, over all, was excellent. The editors did a fine job of collecting tales of all sorts - creepy, gory, subtle and chilling.

My favorites:

The Grab by Richard Laymon: It seemed like such a normal story until the end....

Examination Day by Henry Slesar: Scary because we aren't far from this as a society.....

Making Friends by Gary Raisor: Children are creepy, dark-hearted little vipers.....
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LibraryThing member jameshold
100 stories; 10 or 20 of which are okay. My reaction to most of them was "I can't believe somebody paid these guys money to write this junk." My reaction to the rest were "And then what happened?" or "So what?"
In other words, they weren't hair-raising (I still have my bald spot to prove it) and
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few qualified as horror. Nor does it live up to the intro where it says these are short-shorts. Many run quite a few pages and too many stop abruptly without coming to a real conclusion.
The ones by Poe and Bierce are generally good (although they've been anthologized dozens of times elsewhere), the modern ones are generally poor.
But that's only my opinion. Others may vary.
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Rating

(38 ratings; 3.4)

Call number

FIC G Sar
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