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Story 9 of 9: We Can Remember it for You Wholesale

The original inspiration for the Total Recall movies. Different ending and much more silly

3 stars

Story 8 of 9: Faith of Our Fathers

As a party member moves up in his career in a future communist society, he begins to learn that their great leader is not everything he appears to be

4 stars

Story 7 of 9: The Electric Ant

A man discovers he is really a robot with an organic exterior and in an existential crisis he begins to tinker with his programming to see if he can manipulate reality

4 stars

Story 6 of 9: Oh, to Be a Blobel!

A veteran struggles with a condition where he morphs into the alien species Blobel for several hours daily after a lingering procedure during the war that allowed him to spy against the Blobels

3 stars

Story 5 of 9: What the Dead Men Say

Not sure what to make of this one. Frozen bodies that can be revived for a number of days until death mixed with a strange political plot to get a candidate elected

3 stars

Story 4 of 9: War Game

People on Earth test new, suspicious kids' games sent from Ganymede

3 stars

Story 3 of 9: Second Variety

In a dystopian war-ravaged landscape, machines used as weapons start to evolve into more cunning forms of AI

4 stars

Story 2 of 9: Imposter

A man is in a race to prove he’s not a killer robot before he is hunted down and caught

3 stars

Story 1 of 9: Minority Report

An amazing melon-bender, I had to read this one carefully

5 stars

Comet Wine by Ray Russell
Something about a Russian composer.
Three stars.

The Life Work of Juan Diaz by Ray Bradbury
A poor widow who can't pay for her husband's burial tries to retrieve the mummified corpse from the gravedigger.
Three stars.

Weird Show by Herbert Gold
Story about a love-starved assistant in a travelling horror show.
Three stars.

The Traveling Salesman by Robert Bloch
It's short, about a travelling salesman, and it's not horror.
Two stars.

Black Country by Charles Beaumont
I don't wanna read about jazz, I want to read horror!
Two stars.

Virginia by Calvin Tomkins
The horror of a crazy, fat broad who screams.
Three stars.

No Such Thing as a Vampire by Richard Matheson
RM is consistently good with his stories and engaging with his writing. This vampire mystery has a great plot and twist ending.
Four stars.

The Taste of Fear by Hugh G. Foster
Not sure what happened here; a lot of old-timey slang and confusing plot. It could be good, but I have no idea.
One star.

Double Exposure by John Reese
A photojournalist in a poor neighbourhood is propositioned by a pretty, but prepubescent girl to take photos of her naked in exchange for a few dollars. He is almost tempted but refuses the girl's offer; she then leaves the area towards a building that will explode in a few minutes, killing her. He realises she would have lived had he done the wrong thing. Haunting.
Four stars.

I'm Yours by Charles Schafhauser
The tale of a gorgeous, young succubus—nice. I really don't think Playboy published any horror story that was actually horrific or scary, like they knew impressionable young lads were their main audience.
Three stars.