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My thoughts on this book are much the same for the same publisher's "Gothic Ghost Stories"...While a beautiful book overall.....the contents don't seem to share the same sensibilities.....I'd guess that as much of a third of the book isn't horror at all, but perhaps fantasy or science fiction. Quite a few of the stories, as noted by other reviewers, are classics in the field - how many times do I need to read "Screaming Skull, Dead Smile, or The Yellow Sign??An entertaining read, but buy it at d...
Average rating: 3,4This collection has it all, 1-star and 5-star stories alike. That rarely happens for me. 5-star reads:The Dying ArtLeonoraStart With ColourBlessed be the BoundDead EndThe Dew of Heaven, Like Ashes4,5-star reads:EcdysisMirror's KeeperThing in the BucketWorth the Having The Dunwich Horror (re-read)The Call of Cthulhu (re-read)Trial and ErrorEverything below 2,5 stars:Beyond the WallThe Watcher by the ThresholdBreachThe Dead SmileThe Three StrangersYoung Goodman BrownThe Magnific...
Overall, the majorty of the stories were subpar, and i found myself asking "wait, it this actually supposed to be horror?" Much too frequently to give this collection an actual good rating. There were some really good scary stories, but they were unfortunately few and far between.
I got about half way through this. Read 22 stories and only really liked 3 of them.Quite a few didn't really feel like horror, and the amount of old ones makes me wonder if some were selected for being out of copyright.
Despite the rating, there are a few good stories in this collection, but this just doesn't work as a collection; you'd be better off to seek these (rare) good stories elsewhere, where they aren't tarnished by stories that seek to scare from shock value and make you feel like you need to shower afterwards. Beyond the Wall by Ambrose Bierce was quite truly the best. Many of the classics were at least all right, if not entirely the best examples of classic creepiness, but better than the modern tra...
As with any anthology, I found that I enjoyed some of the stories more than others, but this is a great company for anyone that can’t commit to getting through a regular-length book
An 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 book itself is lovely, but it gives the impression of something put together and sent to press quickly. 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. It wasn’t entirely unworthy the
A fantastic collection of stories, good variety it has something for everyone. Flamtree publishing always release great stuff, I would definitely recommend checking out their other collections
really hit and miss. Some of these "classic" authors are just verbose and exhausting. Mary Shelley and Lovecraft were great though. The modern stories were even more mixed, mostly ranging from reddit trash to shock value sadism. One might say the real horror was trying to read this whole book!
DNF
Well... That's kind of the best way to phrase my reading experience. I was hoping for the same sort of eclectic collection I'd found in Flame Tree's Supernatural anthology, due to the vagueness of the word"chilling". Anything can be chilling. You could do so much with that, but this was mostly creatures. I think I said Supernatural Short Stories read like the Twilight Zone... well, this read more like Tales From the Crypt. While I usually adore finding a new age gem among the classics, the moder...
I was disappointed to say the least
