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Christopher Pike's Tales of Terror

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I'm extremely familiar with the author's work and I think these short stories are some of his best, riveled only by those he composed for the "Midnight Club." The first story, about a boy who thinks he's dreaming when he's really not, is demented and fun. The second, a sequel to his book "Master of Murder," is a neat twist on the first book. The third, a compelling and thought provoking glimse of future life, left me in tears. The fourth is a wildly futuristic story that speaks about the implications of present actions and how they affect the future in the long run. The fifth is a wicked story of a boy who decides to murder his girl friend. Finally, the sixth is a parody on an experience the author actually had. Read the book! The stories are short, fun and easy to understand!!

A series of short stories is the basic idea here. But what makes it a need for Pike fans is the commentary. Christopher Pike FINALLY reveals pieces of his life to us before each short story. He even answers the most common question: "Mr. Pike, where do you get your ideas from?" Go for it!

THer is this one story about 4 teenagers from 20,000 in the future when they decide to visit present day humans of the 20th century. They are named 11, 33, 66, 99 and come into bodies of 4 teenagers. It talkes in teen language, like "getting laid" and "she got screwed" and "did you wear a condom" ...I can't describe in words, they are too funny to do so. It has a huge amount of humor in this story and its hard not to laugh. Along with this story is a whole lot of other interesting things too good to put down. I ain't kiddin' ya one whole bit.

This is a great book. There are several short stories so you won't get fed up with one story plot, and "The Fan from Hell" is amazing! It isn't terrifying, exactly, but it really made me think. This is C.Pike's best book!

Fan From Hell was an amazing short story that was a semi-sequel to Master of Murder. Marvin, a yung H/S student/writer is talked into terrible lies from a woman who claims to be his #1 fan. She soon seduces him. She later black mails him by saying he, Marvin raped her & beat her. Even though it was her who hit herself & she did allow Marvin to "make love" with her. She negousates by telling Marvin to basicially write a story for her that she'd started, but couldn't complete. She tries to trick Marvin with his on plots, but she makes a mistake, never interfer with a writer & his work.{hehehe} She'll try to get rid of Marvin, but who'll survive? Pike leads the reader in many twists & turns & even though Pike insists Marvin isn't suppose to be based on him, i still think a portion of Marvin has Pike's brilliance & personality. I hope he'll have another story involving Marvin & his writings. He's my favortie YA writer of all time!so far at least...?

I like Christopher Pike and I've read most of his books. One thing I've noticed is that his stories tend to be mind blowingly good or terrible. This book had one story I loved, the rest were disappointing.

I came across Pike's books 'bout 3 years ago. Since then i've been reading all his books!! However, recently i've been looking high and low for his latest books published since 1998. Any idea how i can get hold of them???

First I'd like to say that they got this book's description mixed up with Tales of Terror 2. This book was perfect, not his best, but perfect. I love all of Mr. Pike's books, he writes in such an interesting style. But all his stories in this book have amazing details for something so short. But that is one reason all of his books are wonderful. I loved it!

As i say it awesome.Even though it was only short story but that was the best story i ever read(and i mean the BEST).It was about the mystery of live something that we never thought of.Read it and you love it forever.

if it's as awesome as you all say...........into the shopping cart it goes! i sure hope it's worth it!!!!!! well, $3 sumthing is not that much!

i am one huuuuuuuuuuuge pike fan, y'know! i luurve to be scared, but not tooo much! i loved the final friends trilogy and the wicked heart! anyone wanting to caht about naything pikey or well, anything............e-mail me ............