Tag: horror stories
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The Collected Stories of Stephen King: A Speculative Table of Contents
It is a sad truism that while many mainstream literary short story writers eventually publish a Collected or Best Of anthology, very few popular genre writers do the same. In this way, we end up with The Collected Stories of Flanery O’Connor and The Complete Stories of Jorge Luis Borges–both excellent–but sadly no such compilation from a writer like Stephen…
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The October Country: Oct 31st: The Making of a Spooky Story
The October Country …that country where it is always turning late in the year. That country where the hills are fog and the rivers are mist; where noons go quickly, dusks and twilights stay. That country composed in the main of cellars, sub-cellars, coal-bins, closets, attics, and pantries faced away from the sun. That country…
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Pushing the Limits: Paula Guran’s Nightmares, Dreamscapes, and Good Taste
Just finished the 2011 lineup of “The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy and Horror” edited by Paula Guran. It seems to me there is a great proliferation of horror anthologies out on the shelves these days, something I’m rather glad to see, and this collection strikes me as one of the finest I’ve found. There’s a…
The Black Cat Moan 