Night Visions 4

Night Visions #4

by Dean Koontz, Edward Bryant, Robert McCammon

With an introduction by Clive Barker and illustrated by Kevin Davies, it collects the following stories:
Dean R. Koontz:
Miss Attila the Hun
Hardshell
Twilight of the Dawn

Edward Bryant:
Predators
The Baku
Frat Rat Bash
Haunted
Buggage
Doing Colfax

Robert R. McCammon:
The Deep End
A Life in the Day of
Best Friends

Genres: Horror, Short Stories, Anthologies, Fiction

275 pages, Hardcover

First published August 1, 1988

About the author

Acknowledged as "America's most popular suspense novelist" (Rolling Stone) and as one of today's most celebrated and successful writers, Dean Ray Koontz has earned the devotion of millions of readers around the world and the praise of critics everywhere for tales of character, mystery, and adventure that strike to the core of what it means to be human.

Dean, the author of many #1 New York Times bestsellers, lives in Southern California with his wife, Gerda, their golden retriever, Elsa, and the enduring spirit of their goldens, Trixie and Anna.

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Twitter: @DeanKoontz
Website: DeanKoontz.com

Reviews

[Shawn · Rating 1 out of 5]

I'm not kidding when I say that this was an absolutely worthless collection of short fiction - and I say that as someone who can be very forgiving of short fiction if it at least tries. The collection that proved to me that while Dean Koontz may be an accomplished novelist, the man is not a writer - at least, not a writer of short fiction. "Hardshell" may be one of the worst deployed stories I've ever put eyes to. Ghastly stuff. Seriously, if you want an example of why horror publishing collapsed in the late 80s, this would be exhibit number one.

[Charley Rains · Rating 5 out of 5]

Read "Hardshell" as a short story in the book "Strange Highways ".
Certainly a good horror story!

[Blake Pablo - Jerome · Rating 2 out of 5]

This is probably one of the worst horror anthologies I've ever read. Koontz' stories are mostly trash. I only liked "Twilight of the Dawn." I find that I either love or hate his stories.

I really enjoyed Edward Bryant's fictional author's notes, but I can't say the same about his stories. I only really enjoyed "Frat Rat Bash" and "Doing Colfax."

Robert McCammon was more interesting than Koontz, but at points it just read like bad B horror movies.

Most of these stories read like bad horror b-movies, Koontz being the weakest writer out of the three.

[Charles · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a collection of stories by three writers, Dean Koontz, Robert R. McCammon, and Edward Bryant. Each has several stories in the antholgy. I found Koontz's to be the strongest, but most of the stories were very good.

[Brian Sammons · Rating 4 out of 5]

Another excellent anthology.

[Zack Long · Rating 5 out of 5]

I have only read Robert R. Mccammon's Best Friends from this.

[Dresden · Rating 2 out of 5]

Koontz was bad enough that I'll never bother with him again. Bryant is something of a forgotten master. McCammon was solid but not quite what I look for in horror.

[Arty A · Rating 2 out of 5]

I was surprised to find another writer worse than Koontz! Edward Bryant is so boring! But he's not a horror writer but he tried in this and failed. One story is 2 guys driving around they pick up a hitch-hiker and strangle her and go get something to eat. THat was it!? Koontz is still bad with 3 stories. One of them is not anywhere near horror. It's about a guy who begins to believe in god after his wife and son die. McCammon had the "best" story about demons that erupt out of a teenagers face and start ripping people up but it wasn't that good either. Waste of time.