Got to Kill Them All & Other Stories [Deluxe Edition] [Hardcover]

Dennis Etchison (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 30, 2009

A collection of the darkest and nastiest Etchison stories both brand new and reprint that have not been included in any of his recent collections. If you love horrific short stories, you will need this collection in your personal library!

Table of Contents:
Foreword
Introduction by George Clayton Johnson
Sitting In The Corner, Whimpering Quietly
The Walking Man
The Pitch
You Can Go Now
Today's Special
Call Home
The Machine Demands A Sacrifice
On The Pike
White Moon Rising
The Scar
The Detailer
Home Call
Red Dog Down
One Of Us
In a Silent Way
My Present Wife
No One You Know
Got to Kill Them All

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

This bare-bones collection of 18 reprints, spanning 40 years of World Fantasy Award–winner Etchison's career, delves deep into personal terrors. Starting off with Sitting in the Corner, Whimpering Quietly, a stark account of an unpleasant encounter in a Laundromat, Etchison uses quick strokes of prose, at times overly sparse, to paint eerie scenes of sharp violence and deep unease. There are moments when a controlled burst of staccato sentences serves the story perfectly, as in The Walking Man, where desultory bar chitchat takes an abrupt turn for the macabre. Etchison writes a loudmouthed salesman in The Pitch as easily as a lost little girl in Call Home, though at times his desire to focus only on the moment can loosen his grasp on the individual settings he wants to create. The title story caps off the collection with a brutally exquisite showing of what Etchison does best: creating a tone and wielding it like an edged weapon. (Feb.)
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Product Details

• Hardcover: 206 pages
• Publisher: Cemetery Dance Publications; 1st edition (April 30, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1587670933
• ISBN-13: 978-1587670930
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.3 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,860,258 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

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3.0 out of 5 stars Not As Good As I Hoped, January 10, 2011

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This review is from: Got to Kill Them All & Other Stories (Hardcover)

I was kind of disappointed with this collection of stories by Etchison. I remember reading many of his books and stories when I was younger and really liking them. This made me really look forward to reading this collection of short stories. However, it didn't live up to my expectations. The stories were a tad too predictable. Plus I didn't end up feeling much for any of the characters; they were just kind of there. I didn't really care for any of them. His prose was dead on perfect though. And he did great scenes for the characters to interact; I could easily picture where things were happening. It's just that I didn't care though what happened to the people. The stories span forty years of writing which meant that some of them did feel a little dated. To that degree, it reminded me of reading a Richard Matheson collection. Overall it wasn't bad but it wasn't the good I wanted. Some favorites from the collection are below.

"You Can Go Know" - A man travels home to his wife.

"Call Home" - A little girl looks for help from her daddy.