A Treasury of American Horror Stories
by Martin H. Greenberg (Editor), Frank D. McSherry (Editor), Charles G. Waugh (Editor)
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"51 spine-chilling tales from every state in the Union plus Washington, D.C."--Jacket subtitle.Tags
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One of the most solid horror anthologies available--and, having read dozens of them over the decades, I know whereof I speak. From the sublime (the existential horror of Ambrose Bierce's "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge") to the ridiculous ("The Monster of Lake LaMetrie," a mad scientist misadventure by Wardon Allan Curtis), from canonical classics ("Pickman's Model" by H.P. Lovecraft; "The Horsehair Trunk" by Davis Grubb) to more recent masterpieces (Carl Jacobi's "The Unpleasantness at Carver House"; Tom Reamy's "Twilla"; Jeffrey Goddin's "The Smell of Cherries"), all tastes are catered for. A Treasury of American Horror Stories belongs in your permanent collection.
The quality of the stories is far above that in most horror anthologies. Each state, and the District, is the setting for a story.
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Martin Harry Greenberg (March 1, 1941 - June 25, 2011) was an American academic and speculative fiction anthologist. In all, he compiled 1,298 anthologies. He founded Tekno Books, a packager of more than 2000 published books; he was also a co-founder of the Sci-Fi Channel. Some of his anthologies included: Past Imperfect (2001), Once Upon a Galaxy show more (2002) and Sirius: The Dog Star (2004). (Bowker Author Biography) show less
Charles Waugh is an associate professor of English at Utah State University and the editor and translator (with Nguyn Lien) of Family of Fallen Leaves: Stories of Agent Orange by Vietnamese Writers. Nguyn Lien was a writer, scholar, and teacher who translated many international works of literature into Vietnamese. Van Gi is the dean of the Faculty show more of Creative Writing at the University of Culture in Hanoi. show less
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- Canonical title
- A Treasury of American Horror Stories
- Original title
- A Treasury of American Horror Stories
- Original publication date
- 1985
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- Genres
- Fiction and Literature, Horror
- DDC/MDS
- 813.0872 — Literature & rhetoric American literature in English American fiction in English By type Genre fiction Adventure fiction Mystery fiction
- LCC
- PS648 .H6 .T74 — Language and Literature American literature American literature Collections of American literature Prose (General)
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- Languages
- English
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- Paper
- ISBNs
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