100 Wild Little Weird Tales [Hardcover]

Stefan R., edited by DZIEMIANOWICZ (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 581 pages
• Publisher: Barnes and Noble (1994)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1566195578
• ISBN-13: 978-1566195577
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.7 x 1.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,468,260 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A good anthology of the fiction from "Weird Tales' magazine, March 10, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: 100 Wild Little Weird Tales (Hardcover)

Along with the traditional writers in genre (H.P. Lovecraft, Fritz Leiber, etc.) this anthology has some lesser known short stories and works by authors of the past. Of particularly interest are Gustav Meyrink, Edwardian ghost story author E.F. Benson, and some of the french conti cruel writers like Maurice Level. As with any anthology of this size and scope, some of the stories don't really work--but overall, a nice, well-rounded collection.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Kind Of Disappointing, November 5, 2009

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Art Turner "decipheringhobshog.blogspot.com" (Rockford, IL USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: 100 Wild Little Weird Tales (Hardcover)

I got this book as a Father's Day gift this year and was really looking forward to cracking it open and reading some great classic weird fiction. Unfortunately, I confess I was a bit disappointed.

This is not to say that there isn't great stuff in here. Certainly the stories by most of the famous names that are included (Lovecraft, Clark Ashton Smith, Poe, etc.) are good to great, and there are pleasant suprises from some less familiar names (Maurice Level and Ewen Whyte, neither of whom I was familiar with, contribute a couple of haunting stories each, and the underrated Manly Wade Wellman's "These Doth The Lord Hate" is unexpectedly poignant), but for the most part this is pretty mediocre and predictable stuff. For example, there were at least half a dozen stories where I correctly guessed what the ending would be a page or two in, and that's not something I'm very good at doing.

In conclusion, if you're terminally addicted to pulp fiction, you'll probably wanna pick this up, but for the non-junkie, something like Weird Tales: 32 Unearthed Terrors will serve as a much better introduction to what "The Unique Magazine" had to offer.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Beautiful, June 14, 2007

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Michael Lenhart "Mike" (PA, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: 100 Wild Little Weird Tales (Hardcover)

This really is a beautiful little collection that highlights the best features of the weird fiction genre: tales of the sea, dark gods, madness, ghosts, and vampires. Most of the stories work quite well--only a comparative few fail to satisfy. With this collection you are getting works from the golden age of weird fiction, the 20's, 30's and early 40's--Lovecraft, Quinn, Bloch, Smith, Lieber, Derleth. A must have for the pulp collector.