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taxideadaisy's review
3.0
Pretty good: 3.5 stars really ... Irregular levels of enjoyment. A nice little bit of notes... Could easily be used as a starting point for more reading and/or study.
tarah_'s review
dark
mysterious
tense
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? N/A
4.0
jackievr's review
dark
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? N/A
- Strong character development? N/A
- Loveable characters? N/A
- Diverse cast of characters? N/A
- Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A
3.75
jess_tries2read's review
dark
emotional
mysterious
reflective
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
5.0
So many of these stories were wild! Obscure, short horror stories is an awesome concept for a book. The only frustrating thing is that I couldn't find much discorse online about them. Like, what does it all mean??
Most of the stories hooked me and I couldn't get enough of them. Some of them did suck. Like Desiree's Baby.... put that thing back where it came from or so help me. 🟢👁
Most of the stories hooked me and I couldn't get enough of them. Some of them did suck. Like Desiree's Baby.... put that thing back where it came from or so help me. 🟢👁
Content Warnings
Graphic: Violence
Moderate: Racism
So many of these stories were wild! Obscure, short horror stories is an awesome concept for a book. The only frustrating thing is that I couldn't find much discorse online about them. Like, what does it all mean?? Most of the stories hooked me and I couldn't get enough of them. Some of them did suck. Like Desiree's Baby.... put that thing back where it came from or so help me. 🟢👁elenajohansen's review
2.0
I primarily read this for The Yellow Wallpaper, on the list for Crash Course Literature this season. This was the only collection available from my library system that had it, and I wasn't terribly interested in reading the other stories.
That being said, The Yellow Wallpaper was excellent, and I read most of the other stories, which were overwritten in the style of the times--if you're a diehard Poe fan, these are right up your alley, but otherwise I mostly found them excessively wordy.
That being said, The Yellow Wallpaper was excellent, and I read most of the other stories, which were overwritten in the style of the times--if you're a diehard Poe fan, these are right up your alley, but otherwise I mostly found them excessively wordy.
ladyeremite's review
4.0
Great if somewhat variable selection of horror stories. Favorites: Ewers' The Spider (somewhat plagiarized from The Invisible Eye), Gautier's The Mummy's Foot, Bierce's The Moonlit Road and of course The Sandman and The Yellow Wallpaper
bookbelle5_17's review
This is a short story collection and I decided not to read the rest of the collection. Nothing wrong with the collection I just decided not to read the rest of them. The stories that I did read were interesting. I liked The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Gilman Perkins and The Sand-Man by ETA Hoffman.
careinthelibrary's review
1.0
This was honestly pretty disappointing. Almost all of the stories would not qualify as horror by my definition, were not anywhere close. There were maybe five in total that were alright. The ones that WERE worth reading were "The Sand Man" by E. T. A. Hoffmann, not horror, but an entertaining story all the same, "The Upper Berth," by F. Marion Crawford which was the only one that really spooked me, "The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (this one was psychologically thrilling), "The Spider" by Hanns Heinz Ewers, and Bram Stoker's "The Squaw." Besides those -- and some of those were only alright -- the rest were banal, bland, uninspired, aged pieces that did not need to be reproduced in a collection of horror tales. None of them had the spine-chilling effect that Edgar Allan Poe manages in his pieces which is one of the main draws of this collection -- the title itself suggesting these pieces are in the same vein as Poe's horror works.
thesubmariner's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
informative
inspiring
mysterious
reflective
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
5.0
I love this type of collection because this is a unique opportunity to learn about other authors in this case of the horror genre. Some of them I heard of and read already, but with most it was by introduction to their work. The introduction is a key word here because if you like a story from this collection then you should search for more work from that author. Overall, this was an enjoyable journey. However, I must point out that some of these stories are products of their time and some haven't aged that great, but some are absolutely timeless. I will probably review each story individually, but I want to reread them and to wait for some time to pass. Mainly because for some you need to be in a special mood to get in too. I feel I gave a lower star rating to some maybe because of it. Nonetheless I saw the value in each story and once again I'm grateful that I found more authors to read.
1. The Sandman - novelette by E. T. A. Hoffmann (1816) 5*
2. The Mummy's Foot - short story by Théophile Gautier (1840) 5*
3. An Account of Some Strange Disturbances in Aungier Street - novelette by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (1853) 3*
4. The Upper Berth - novelette by F. Marion Crawford (1885) 4*
5. His Unconquerable Enemy - short story by W. C. Morrow ([1889] variant of The Rajah's Nemesis) 5*
6. In Dark New England Days - short story by Sarah Orne Jewett (1890) 3*
7. The Yellow Wallpaper - short story by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1892) 5*
8. Désirée's Baby - short story by Kate Chopin (1893) 5*
9. The Yellow Sign - novelette by Robert W. Chambers (1895) 5*
10. A Tragedy of Bones - short fiction by George MacDonald (1895) 4*
11. A Night of Horror - short story by Dick Donovan (1899) 4*
12. The Corpse-Rider - short story by Lafcadio Hearn (1900) 4-5*
13. The Leather Funnel - short story by Arthur Conan Doyle (1902) 5*
14. The Shadows on the Wall - short story by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman (1903) 4*
15. Lost Hearts - short story by M. R. James (1895) 5*
16. The Moonlit Road - short story by Ambrose Bierce (1907) 5*
17. The Spider - novelette by Hanns Heinz Ewers (1908) 4-5*
18. The Woman with the Hood - short story by L. T. Meade (1908) 3-4*
19. The Easter Egg - short story by Saki (1911) 5*
20. The Squaw - short story by Bram Stoker (1893) 4-5*
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