Scan barcode
A review by alexctelander
A Book of Horrors by Stephen Jones
4.0
When British author Stephen Jones set out to bring the anthology that would become A Book of Horrors together, his goal was to make the world realize that the concept of the horror story and the ability to frighten and terrify readers in a number of ways is still alive and well, contrary to what the likes of sparkling vampires, hunky werewolves, and all the other former denizens of the world of terror that have now been romanticized have shown. Jones does just this in A Book of Horrors.
The collection opens with a new story from Stephen King, “The Little Green God of Agony,” about a man who has suffered much and continues to be in constant agony from a debilitating accident he had some time ago and is still recovering from. His physical therapist believes he just isn’t working hard enough to recover fully. But another man believes otherwise, and he plans to bring this little green god of agony out of him. “The Man in the Ditch” from Lisa Tuttle begins with a woman in a car sighting a dead man by the side of the road and goes from there. The book also features a new and original tale from John Ajvide Lindqvist , bestselling Swedish horror author of Let the Right One In. “The Music of Bengt Karlsson, Murderer” has the same feel of many of his other works, with the hard, cold landscape of Sweden, the importance of family and how it deals with loss, and what it means to live in the house where a murderer killed himself.
A Book of Horrors will be enjoyed by any horror fan, and by anyone looking to give the genre a try, as the stories range from monster to ghost to psychological; all kinds of horror are available for the reader in this collection.
Originally written on September 27, 2012 ©Alex C. Telander.
For more reviews, go to Bookbanter
The collection opens with a new story from Stephen King, “The Little Green God of Agony,” about a man who has suffered much and continues to be in constant agony from a debilitating accident he had some time ago and is still recovering from. His physical therapist believes he just isn’t working hard enough to recover fully. But another man believes otherwise, and he plans to bring this little green god of agony out of him. “The Man in the Ditch” from Lisa Tuttle begins with a woman in a car sighting a dead man by the side of the road and goes from there. The book also features a new and original tale from John Ajvide Lindqvist , bestselling Swedish horror author of Let the Right One In. “The Music of Bengt Karlsson, Murderer” has the same feel of many of his other works, with the hard, cold landscape of Sweden, the importance of family and how it deals with loss, and what it means to live in the house where a murderer killed himself.
A Book of Horrors will be enjoyed by any horror fan, and by anyone looking to give the genre a try, as the stories range from monster to ghost to psychological; all kinds of horror are available for the reader in this collection.
Originally written on September 27, 2012 ©Alex C. Telander.
For more reviews, go to Bookbanter