Rod Serling's Triple W: Witches, Warlocks and Werewolves

by Rod Serling

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Fantasy. Fiction. Science Fiction. Thriller. HTML:Twelve horrifying tales for the demon in you collected by the man who wrote Stories from the Twilight Zone
ROD SERLING'S FAVORITE STORIES—
THE WITCH—there was the little girl who always wanted to be a witch. She tried everything she could think of but she never made it until she learned to hate everybody—including herself...
AND THE WARLOCK WHO WAITED AND WAITED
"It was a wonderful attack, Captain. Nothing human could have lived through show more it—nothing human did. We were deep underground where they buried us long ago—the stakes through our hearts. Your fire burned the stakes away—" The warlock waved a scaly hand at the waiting shadows. They came down relentlessly.
AND THE WEREWOLF
Early morning at the zoo, and the naked man behind the bars was sound asleep. Suddenly, his eyes flickered and his right hand smashed down at the flies that buzzed on the bone he'd been gnawing last night. The flies left, but the naked man stayed immobile, his eyes on his hand. Outside the cage a sign read,
LOBO,
TIMBER WOLF,
Canis occidentalis.
AND NINE MORE STORIES ABOUT WITCHES, WARLOCKS AND WEREWOLVES ALL HERE IN ROD SERLING'S TRIPLE W.
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So-so collection of horror stories (and one sci-fi piece that's a bit of a sore thumb) selected by Rod Serling. Triple W delivers amply on its promise of witch tales, including Nathaniel Hawthorne's haunting "Young Goodman Brown" and Malcolm Jameson's "Blind Alley" (which Serling adapted for the Twilight Zone episode "Of Late I Think of Cliffordsville"). And the werewolf story, Bruce Elliott's oddly touching "Wolves Don't Cry," is one of the book's two standouts. (The other is "The Mark of the Beast," Rudyard Kipling's gruesome classic about an Englishman who desecrates an Indian temple and soon regrets it.)

Just okay. I expected better selections from someone of Serling's obvious taste and discernment, but most of these stories are show more pretty blah. show less
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This book had twelve stories about mainly Witches and Werewolves I liked them all. I really liked the last story it centered around witch trials in Scotland mainly some in Germany, I find those kind of stories about witch trials rather fascinating.

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Original publication date
1963
People/Characters
Clint; Marie-Elaine; Sidi Nonman; Amina; Katie; Joey (show all 22); Aunt Lucy; Mr. Feathersmith; Madame Hecate; Goodman Brown; Faith; Olive; Cynthia; Win; Giles Wardwell; Joan Wardwell; Margo Cory; Alice Redd; Mary Nurse; Strickland; Fleete; Lobo
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USA; Spiney Holler; Cliffordsville; Salem, Massachusetts, USA; Arkansas, USA; Massachusetts, USA (show all 7); Ozark Mountains, Arkansas, USA
First words
I am unabashedly and admittedly an admirer of horror tales.
Last words
(Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)"Quel lion, quel tigre égale en cruauté,
Une injuste fureur qu'arme la piété?"

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Fiction and Literature, Horror, Fantasy
DDC/MDS
813.08Literature & rhetoricAmerican literature in EnglishAmerican fiction in EnglishBy typeGenre fiction
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PZ1 .S48 .RLanguage and LiteratureFiction and juvenile belles lettresFiction and juvenile belles lettresFiction in English
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