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Horrors!: 365 scary stories

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What can I say about this book except that it is so good, such a pleasure that I am re-reading this for the THIRD TIME? I love anthologies, but oftentimes anthologies has stories that go on for too long (padded by sometimes self-indulgent and self-impressed writers) or stories that are simply weak. This anthology avoids those traps -- mainly because the 365 stories are incredibly short, punchy and memorable. It's set up so you read a story or two a day but I could not put this BIG, THICK paperback down. I carried it with me and read it in between shows (I'm an entertainer). I read it on the airplane. And I wound up finishing it up late at night -- yes, it's the cliched "book-you-can't-put-down." Most of these incredibly effective, tightly written pieces don't last more than a page or two. But you think about them. And when you've completed this book, you're sad because it's over. Of course, I found a solution to that: I re-read it periodically. I sometimes sell some books that I love on ... or trade them in used bookstores. I'll never sell this one. It's going to be re-read many times.

WOW! I got this book for x-mas and now I can safely say I am done reading it. The whole thing. This book is filled with 365 scary tales... the longest tale in the book I believe only comes to 2 pages (font and back). So there not long stories at all. All by differnt authors of short stories. No big names in here but definatly writers with talent. A must buy and read on a lonely stormy night or at a camp fire!

I got this book because Devon Monk has a short fiction piece in it. Wonderful and fun (scary) reads!