Hunger for Horror

by Robert Adams (Editor), Martin H. Greenberg (Editor), Pamela Crippen Adams (Editor)

Stories deal with modern vampires, cannibal cultists, a painting of evil, ghostly revenge, living mummies, a poisoner, and monstrous foods

Genres: Horror

256 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published March 1, 1988

About the author

Franklin Robert Adams (August 31, 1933 - January 4, 1990) was an American science fiction and fantasy writer, formerly a career soldier. He is best known for his "Horseclans" books. He wrote as Robert Adams, an abbreviated form of his full name.

Adams was an early pioneer of the post-holocaust novel. His Horseclans novels are precursors to many of today's attempts at this type of story, many of which do not exhibit his painstakingly detailed world view or extraordinary plot follow-through (many of his Horseclans books are so interlinked that they make sense only when read in order; he did not create many "stand alone" books in the series).

Hallmarks of Adams' style include a focus on violent, non-stop action, meticulous detail in matters historical and military, strong description, and digressions expounding on various subjects from a conservative and libertarian viewpoint.

Reviews

[Craig · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is an obscure but very enjoyable little quirky anthology with stories about eating and hunger that have a dark supernatural slant. It contains a rich mix of classic older works by writers like Ambrose Bierce, Stephen Vincent Benet, and H. P. Lovecraft, with slightly more modern people including Robert Bloch, Ramsey Campbell, and Anthony Boucher, and more recent authors including Robert Silverberg, Michael Bishop, and Tom Reamy. Some good funny stuff and some good frightening work; I recommend it as a terrific companion piece to another Greenberg-produced anthology, The Science Fiction Weight Loss Book, which he edited with Isaac Asimov and George R.R. Martin. Bring your appetite.

[Mike · Rating 4 out of 5]

There's a story in here about giant snails eating some scientist dude that scared the shit out of me in sixth grade.