Flowers from the Moon: And Other Lunacies [Hardcover]

Robert Bloch (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 296 pages
• Publisher: Arkham House Pub; 1st edition (July 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0870541722
• ISBN-13: 978-0870541728
• Product Dimensions: 8 x 5.8 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,514,522 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic and terrifying short stories, March 9, 2003

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Midwest Book Review (Oregon, WI USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Flowers from the Moon: And Other Lunacies (Hardcover)

Flowers From The Moon And Other Lunacies is a collection of fantastic and terrifying short stories by Robert Bloch, the renowned author of "Psycho," the novel that became one of the most famous horror movies of all time. Descriptive narration of magical events being twisted into macabre and gruesome doom, bring these spine-chilling tales to vivid life, in an unforgettably eerie anthology. The stories comprising this highly recommended anthology include: The Druidic Doom; Fangs of Vengeance; Death is an Elephant; A Question of Identity; Death has Five Guesses; The Bottomless Pool; The Dark Isle; He Waits Beneath the Sea; Power of the Druid; Be Yourself; A Sorcerer Runs for Sheriff; Black Bargain; A Bottle of Gin; Wine of the Sabbat; Soul Proprietor; Satan's Phonograph; The Man Who Told the Truth; The Night They Crashed the Party; Philtre Tip; and the title piece, Flowers from the Moon.

5.0 out of 5 stars Aargh! Horror or Humour?, September 22, 2011

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RIJU GANGULY "perceptive reader" (India) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Flowers from the Moon: And Other Lunacies (Hardcover)

These stories had been written by Robert Bloch at the time when he was at his pulpy best. Now, if you are of a snooty kind who thinks that the world would have been a better place if the hackwork stories published in pulps had not seen the light of the day, then stop reading here, and kindly visit some other page. But if you ARE a lover of tightly told action-packed stories with liberal dosage of humour & horror (often seamlessly mixed), then this is the volume for you. The contents are: -

(*) Introduction by Robert M. Price

1) The Druidic Doom
2) Fangs of Vengeance
3) Death is an Elephant
4) A Question of Identity
5) Death Has Five Guesses
6) The Bottomless Pool
7) The Dark Isle
8) Flowers from the Moon
9) He Waits Beneath the Sea
10) Power of the Druid
11) Be Yourself
12) A Sorcerer Runs for Sheriff
13) Black Bargain
14) A Bottle of Gin
15) Wine of the Sabbat
16) Soul Propietor
17) Satan's Phonograph
18) The Man Who Told the Truth
19) The Night They Crashed the Party
20) Philtre Tip

I don't know if you can get hold of this collection, since it has gone out of print. But if you can, and believe me, you would really love to read these stories, then go all-out to have the book. Otherwise, it would be..... lunacy, what else?!

3 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A nice compilation of some of Bloch's earlier short stories, January 13, 2000

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James L. Roberts "Jim Roberts" (Liberty, MO USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Flowers from the Moon: And Other Lunacies (Hardcover)

An excellent title by a man whose work still delivers the goods. Many of these stories are from Bloch's pulp days and provide a nice body of work to supplement the other titles you might have read including *Psycho*. If you've never owned an Arkham House title, this is an excellent one to snag. It's well-crafted and has a very intriguing dust jacket.

Bloch is a craftsman of the highest order; it's amazing to see how stories written when he was barely out of his teens still compare favorably to ones written late in his career. He was a massive talent.