Songs the dead men sing [Unknown Binding]

George R. R Martin (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: 1983

Anthology collection of horror and dark science fiction, introduction by Algis Budrys, artwork by Paul Sonju

Product Details

• Unknown Binding: 290 pages
• Publisher: Dark Harvest; 1st edition (1983)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0913165018
• ISBN-13: 978-0913165010
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #9,298,759 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

George R.R. Martin sold his first story in 1971 and has been writing professionally since then. He spent ten years in Hollywood as a writer-producer, working on The Twilight Zone, Beauty and the Beast, and various feature films and television pilots that were never made. In the mid '90s he returned to prose, his first love, and began work on his epic fantasy series, A Song of Ice and Fire. He has been in the Seven Kingdoms ever since. Whenever he's allowed to leave, he returns to Santa Fe, New Mexico, where he lives with the lovely Parris, and two cats named Augustus and Caligula, who think they run the place.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Martin's Best Collection. Amazing. Spectacular!, April 15, 2003

By 

Haplo Wolf (Los Angeles.) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Songs the dead men sing

What is this?
The contents of this book are mind-stunning.
If you have a taste for Horror combined with SF elements then this will be something for you.
I do however hope that you have a lot of money because this collection of stories is o.o.p. and desired by many, and treasured by many.
Contents follow:
* The Monkey Treatment
* "...for a single yesterday"
* The Needle Men
* Meathouse Man
* Sandkings
* Nightflyers
* Remembering Melody
* In the House of the Worm
* This Tower of Ashes
Got that?
Many classics in this book. Very rare. Very good.
Sandkings is still readily available. But the others are just as good -some even better!
This has got to be reprinted!
I know there isn't much money to be made with SF collections, but I honestly think that with a bit of marketing, and with GRRM's name splashed on the cover -underlined with "Author of A Song of Ice and Fire" this book will be a bestseller. All the right ingredients are there.
Ah, I should have become an editor, or maybe even a publisher.
This is a goldmine just waiting to get discovered.
Killing a healthy lion with your bare hands is easier than finding this book.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A very pleasant selection of different genres, October 17, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Songs the dead men sing

I read a Spanish translation of this book, a collection of Martin's short stories, and though some are predictable (the Sandkings ending comes to mind, but I won't give it away here), it is enjoyable.

Martin handles several different genres in these stories: from horror to science-fiction, visiting fantasy along the way. And he even throws some humor into the mix!

A very good read.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars AMAZING!, November 11, 2002

By 

P. Robinson "Relic113" (Calgary) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Songs the Dead Men Sing (Hardcover)

If you can find this book, buy it! The price is high because everyone who has it knows its too good to give it up.
This book has some of the best stories ever written...

Monkey Treatment and Needle Man were awesome and terrifying...
For a single yesterday, and Remembering Melody, were Gems that tug at ones heart strings..

And of course Sandkings is simply amazing..

Buy This book, Whatever the cost!!!

Relic113