Stormswept, remote light stations—and the isolated souls who man the beacons—are the perfect subjects for tales of suspense and horror. In the 18 stories in this collection the horrors are sometimes purely psychological, sometimes terrifyingly real. Lighthouse Horrors includes works by well-known authors including Ray Bradbury, Edgar Allan Poe, and Rudyard Kipling. Settings range from the Americas to Britain to East India.
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Eighteen stories in this powerful collection blend well-known contributors such as Ray Bradbury with lesser-knowns, surveying lighthouse horror stories in all their incarnations. Readers who relish stormy surroundings and sea monsters will especially appreciate the diversity of this presentation. -- Midwest Book Review
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
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Great stories of legends and true accounts of Lighthouses!,
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This review is from: Lighthouse Horrors: Tales of Adventure, Suspense and the Supernatural (Paperback)
My third love is lighthouses, after horror and hauntings. This fits right in! OF course, not "frightening" exactly, but spooky true accounts to read on a rainy night all alone! Good history and atmoshpere. One of the few good lighthouse haunting books I own that is good!
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
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Dark Tales of Old Lighthouses,
By Craig Alan Loewen "Craig Alan Loewen" (Pennsylvania, USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Lighthouse Horrors: Tales of Adventure, Suspense and the Supernatural (Paperback)
Throughout the years, lighthouses have served as backdrops for dark, gothic tales of solitary, sea-based horror. If you like a good chilling read and you like lighthouses and the sea, this collection of 17 tales was assembled just for you. Though well-read readers in the genre will have already read Ray Bradbury's The Fog Horn which inspired the movie, Beast From 50,000 Fathoms, the rest of the tales will be new to even the old connoisseur of tales of dark suspense.The editors take us on a world-wide tour which includes St. Cecilia on the southern coast of England and its keeper slowly going mad from the flowing water that surrounds him. We visit the Isle of the Wise Virgin lighthouse in the Gulf of Saint Lawrence to hear a tale about why one doesn't steal from the dead. On a remote island in the Scottish Hebrides, four men and one woman trapped in their lighthouse fight off waves of monsters straight from H.P. Lovecraft while on the coast of Guiana, lighthouse keepers struggle against giant rats. Ghosts, monsters, murder and madness ... they're all here. Nowadays with the advent of technology, lighthouses are falling into disrepair and neglect, but these 17 tales will keep the wonder and mystery alive when the wind outside is blowing the surf up.
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
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A fine collection of short stories involving lighthouses.,
By athomas@usaor.net (Pittsburgh, PA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Lighthouse Horrors: Tales of Adventure, Suspense and the Supernatural (Paperback)
I found several of the short stories to be very entertaining reading. The stories revolve around the darker side of lighthouses.
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