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(2.5) | 1 | Eighteen stories of haunting suspense from the 1840s to the present by known and unknown writers. From Poe's The Black Cat, to Peter Straub's Pork Pie Hat, a gothic tale with a jazz musician as protagonist. |
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. ▾Conversations (About links) No current Talk conversations about this book. » See also 1 mention » Add other authors Author name | Role | Type of author | Work? | Status | Slung, Michele | Editor | primary author | all editions | confirmed | Hartman, Roland | Editor | main author | all editions | confirmed | Bloch, Robert | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Boucher, Anthony | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Cannell, Dorothy | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Derleth, August | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Garner, Judith | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Grady, James | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Hoch, Edward D. | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Lewin, Michael Z. | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Lovesey, Peter | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | McBain, Ed | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Muller, Marcia | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Poe, Edgar Allan | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Powell, Talmage | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Queen, Ellery | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Saylor, Steven | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Stoker, Bram | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Straub, Peter | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Wilson, Gahan | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed |
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For tapping into the imagination, Halloween, unlike any other of the year's special days, provides an absolutely unbeatable combination of the ordinary and the strange. (Preface) | |
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▾References References to this work on external resources. Wikipedia in EnglishNone ▾Book descriptions Eighteen stories of haunting suspense from the 1840s to the present by known and unknown writers. From Poe's The Black Cat, to Peter Straub's Pork Pie Hat, a gothic tale with a jazz musician as protagonist. ▾Library descriptions No library descriptions found. ▾LibraryThing members' description
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Tricks and treats abound in this specialized collection from veteran anthologist Slung (Fever) and a pseudonymous fellow mystery editor. Ed McBain writes about a grieving widower who falls prey to thieving teenagers wearing Frankenstein masks. The old guy's plans for revenge go astray. Or do they? Cartoonist Gahan Wilson tells a slight tale about that old standby: neighborhood kids and the local "haunted" house. Some treats are better than others. Michael Z. Lewin is a mite too cryptic in the short form; Marcia Muller's PI Sharon McCone tracks the last moves of a jumper from the Golden Gate Bridge in a tense work that's only remotely connected to Pumpkin Night. The best loot of the lot is Peter Straub's novella, in which a tired black jazz musician, in a room with a slowly diminishing bottle, recalls a night long ago on the bad side of town, a white woman's screams and a death that did or did not occur. Straub displays extensive jazz knowledge and faultless narrative control from start to finish. Eat this one first. Anthology contains: - Monsters / Ed McBain
- The Lemures / Steven Saylor
- The Adventure of the Dead Cat / Ellery Queen
- The Odstock Curse / Peter Lovesey
- The Theft of the Halloween Pumpkin / Edward D. Hoch
- Hallowe'en for Mr. Faulkner / August Derleth
- Deceptions / Marcia Muller
- The Black Cat / Edgar Allan Poe
- Omjagod / James Grady
- The Cloak / Robert Bloch
- What a Woman Wants / Michael Z. Lewin
- Yesterday's Witch / Gahan Wilson
- Walpurgis Night / Bram Stoker
- Trick or Treat / Judith Garner
- One Night at a Time / Dorothy Cannell
- Night of the Goblin / Talmage Powell
- Trick-or-Treat / Anthony Boucher
- Pork Pie Hat / Peter Straub
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