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Terrors, Terrors, Terrors
Ghosts of the past, present, and future appear in eleven tales of terror and suspense by well-known authors including Edgar Allan Poe, Robert Sheckley, Robert Bloch, Stanley Ellin, and C. B. Colby
- GenresShort StoriesHorror
191 pages, Library Binding
First published January 1, 1979
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March 9, 2016
This book holds a place in my heart eternally for holding the first Lovecraft story I ever read, and I cherish the memories of running into the Cthulhu Mythos in the darkened stacks of my middle school library. I devoured all the Helen Hoke supernatural anthologies as a kid. Yesterday, I decided to take this down and give it a whirl as an adult.
And, honestly, I got a little confused.
The dust jacket of Terrors, Terrors, Terrors promises, to be blunt, terrors. That makes some of the selections rather odd.
Some of the stories are obviously selected correctly: my beloved "The Horror in the Museum," Poe's "The Black Cat," and Bloch's "Sweets to the Sweet" are the big names in the book. Lesser terror are the delightfully gruesome "The Case of James Elmo Freebish" by Pumilia and the adequate ghost story. "The Little House" by Walter.
The rest is kind of a mismatch. "The Corner Shop" is obviously intended to be a heart-warming ghost story. "Waterford's Ghost's Revenge" is a two page synopsis of a ghost story. The rest of the stories aren't really horrific, being more like the goofier Twilight Zone episodes.
Still, not a bad book to spend a short story starved afternoon with.
And, honestly, I got a little confused.
The dust jacket of Terrors, Terrors, Terrors promises, to be blunt, terrors. That makes some of the selections rather odd.
Some of the stories are obviously selected correctly: my beloved "The Horror in the Museum," Poe's "The Black Cat," and Bloch's "Sweets to the Sweet" are the big names in the book. Lesser terror are the delightfully gruesome "The Case of James Elmo Freebish" by Pumilia and the adequate ghost story. "The Little House" by Walter.
The rest is kind of a mismatch. "The Corner Shop" is obviously intended to be a heart-warming ghost story. "Waterford's Ghost's Revenge" is a two page synopsis of a ghost story. The rest of the stories aren't really horrific, being more like the goofier Twilight Zone episodes.
Still, not a bad book to spend a short story starved afternoon with.
December 29, 2020
Some of my fondest memories of elementary school are finding these very adult but superficially clean horror anthologies by Helen Hoke in my school library and absorbing great pulp and Playboy era horror and mystery fiction. This collection is one of the linchpins of my horror library, with "The Horror in the Museum" and "Unreasonable Doubt" taking up great space in my memory banks to this day.
April 5, 2021
Actively hated the artwork, but loved the ghost stories. Nine of the eleven were new to me!
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