Wake Up Screaming

by Lee Wright (Editor), John Collier (contributor), A.E. Coppard (contributor)

A rare collection of bedtime tales from the dread supernatural to the detailed grotesque, here are sixteen stories to tuck you in snug as a corpse in a coffin... Among our night-worthy hosts are Roald Dahl, John Collier, C.S. Forester, Shirley Jackson, offering you a nightcap you'll never forget! Just be prepared to WAKE UP SCREAMING

Genres: Horror

214 pages, Paperback

First published February 1, 1967

Reviews

[Jack Tripper]

Here's a better image of the 1967 Bantam Books mass-market paperback. Includes the oft-adapted "The Fly," by George Langelaan (I suppose that's what the cover is meant to depict). I just now figured that out, sadly. I thought the guy was just wearing enormous headphones).

[Joseph Carrabis · Rating 5 out of 5]

Although not the first book I read, Wake Up Screaming was the first book I purchased with my own money.
And I still have my copy, beaten and worn from its travels with me, and still mine to enjoy again and again and again.

[Shawn]

PLACEHOLDER REVIEW

A young couple, out for a drive in the countryside, get more than they bargained for from the local bird life in Philip MacDonald's "Our Feathered Friends." A solid little thing, this is all about generating suspense - initially through setting and some light character sketching/well-handled voice, then through a slow but inescapable ratcheting up of tension through use of sound and the eeriness of nature.