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I love anthologies of short horror fiction like this. Right up my alley.I never seem to read them in order, though - so I'll just update this review from time to time as I go with my thoughts on each story in the order I read them.PLEASE DON'T HURT ME - by F. PAUL WILSON**** Four StarsA very short little story but a lot of fun, that manages to defy expectations while simultaneously fulfilling them. To say more would spoil the tale. Reminiscent of some Joe R. Lansdale tales.SPLATTER ME AN ANGEL -...
Short reviews of the stories (updating this as I read them):Drifter: a drifter gets caught up in a supernatural revenge plot when he ends up in a small town on Halloween. A fairly strong start to the collection; the story itself isn't anything particularly unusual, but I liked the noir-ish voice of the narrator.Reflections: an extremely short, rather jokey take on the 'rules' of vampires. Definitely lesser Russell; the height of his career in the 50s and 60s was long past by the time this was wr...
Nothing too memorable here. I ended up liking the poetry in it more than the short stories. You got an awesome poem by Ray Bradbury, but not too much else that stood out to me as being great.
An omnibus edition, collecting Masques III: All-New Works of Horror and the Supernatural and Masques IV: All-New Works of Horror and the Supernatural, so plenty of chances to impress.Clear winners here (stories I can remember off-hand, days, sometimes weeks, after reading them), are Dan Simmons' Shave and a Haircut, Two Bites and My Private Memoirs of the Hoffer Stigmata Pandemic, and Ed Gorman's Drifter and The Coming of Night, the Passing of Day - two contributions apiece, and both of them cor...
Although the publication date says 2002, all of the stories had been originally published in Masques III & Masques IV in 1989 and 1991, respectively. Although many of the stories were dated (Berlin Wall, Reagan, the Cold War) this was still a pretty good collection.
i love horror short stories. I pick up these paperback collections used and leave them on my nightstand. I am a big fan of reading them alone at night when I cannot sleep.
This was the literary equivalent of an 80's low budget slasher film.
Decent read. My favorite story was the F. Paul Wilson story that was written completely in dialog. Fantastic!
AWFUL. Not one decent story in the whole thing - and DON'T believe that Ray Bradbury wrote this - there was one poem bu him and they plastered his name all over the cover. Bleah.
There were some stories I really liked.Overall it was just a book to read and nothing truly special or attention grabbing for me.I also realized this was the second time I read this book.
There were some really good horror shorts in this one! I enjoyed just about every single one of them, but some of my favorites include;"Drifter" by Ed Gorman - your not-so-typical hitchhiker tale"Ever, Ever After" by Graham Masterton - true love lasts forever."Sea Gulls" by Gahan Wilson - be careful who's watching."Please Don't Hurt Me" by F.Paul Wilson - 'I just don't understand men'."The Heart of Helen Day" by Graham Masterton - an interesting ghost story."The Collapse of Civilization" by Ray
Some I enjoyed and some I didn't but isn't that usually the case with anthologies? I didn't like any of "poems". Ray Bradbury's happened to be one of those "poem". *sigh*My favorites of the 59 stories are:DrifterRefractionsEver, Ever, AfterLong Lips**Chosen OneShave and a Haircut, Two BitesChildrenPlease Don't Hurt Me**Splatter Me an AngelThe Heart of Helen DaySavagesLove, Hate and the Beautiful Junkyard**the funniest
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DNF, but just couldn't bring myself to continue reading it. I liked one story, "The Dewdrop Inn" was kind of funny. This book is like a collection of "my first horror stories", every single story is so overplayed.
