Thirteen: 13 Tales of Horror by 13 Masters of Horror [School & Library Binding]

A. Bates (Author), Patricia Windsor (Author), Tonya Pines (Editor)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 1991

It's back! And it doesn't get scarier than this. An updated introduction and an intriguing new package bring this best-selling collection of 13 terrifying tales into the 21st century!


Assembled on the pages of this anthology are 13 original short stories by the best known writers of the genre: Christopher Pike, R.L. Stine, A. Bates, D.E. Athkins, Lael Littke and Pat Windsor---just to name a few.

They have given us their best...

You'll be cast into an endless night of wax museum horrors, vampire love, deadly dolls, and...who knows what else may await you?

So let the masters take you and do their worst---with their best.

--This text refers to the Mass Market Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 12 and up
  
• School & Library Binding: 352 pages
• Publisher: Turtleback Books: A Division of Sanval (October 1991)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0613143280
• ISBN-13: 978-0613143288
• Product Dimensions: 6.9 x 4.3 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,811,873 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A couple of must-reads; you can take or leave the rest, October 31, 2001

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"sthete" (West Carrollton, OH) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Thirteen: 13 Tales of Horror by 13 Masters of Horror (Mass Market Paperback)

For teen horror, this is pretty good; fans of horror in general will enjoy a couple of the stories. Here are the must reads, with comments:

'Collect Call': A weird one. (Pike's a wizard at chronicling the soft underbelly of the high school social scene.) The first part is better, but the second is necessary to completely understand the story.
'The Guccioli Miniature': One of the three stories in this collection which lacks a supernatural element; a crime story with a tragicomic twist.
'A Little Taste of Death': A genuinely original idea, imperfectly developed, but tantalizing nonetheless. Tasty.
'House of Horrors': This falls into the fairly narrow subgenre of wax-museum horrors (either the wax coming alive or the living turning to wax - I won't tell you which this is), but there're plenty of chills nonetheless.
'Deathflash': Another really original idea. The vague, eerie telling (which intentionally leaves a lot to the imagination), combined with the pseudoscientific premise, gives it a slightly Lovecraftian flavor, and the ending is only a little implausible.

Of all the stories, the only one I really object to is 'The Spell' by R. L. Stine. He's written a lot of good stuff - his Goosebumps series shows him to excel at childrens' gross-out horror, and the Fear Street books at their best are as good as anything by Pike - but 'The Spell' is a sloppy, contrived, confusing mess, a sad addition to an otherwise appealing collection.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Mostly great stories., February 29, 2004

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Funkee Monkee "Kristyn" (Hampton, GA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Thirteen: 13 Tales of Horror by 13 Masters of Horror (School & Library Binding)

This is a collection of mostly very good stories. I like The Hacker and the Collect Call chapters the best. I gave it four out of five because there is one or two stories that bore me and I couldn't finish it. One was something like the Gutilici or something. Lucianda was a little interesting but also nothing special.

Pick it up if you like horror books but aren't sure you're ready for Stephen King/John Saul horror!

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Thirteen - Tales of Horror by Masters of Horror, May 29, 2000

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nursejen81 - See all my reviews

This review is from: Thirteen: 13 Tales of Horror by 13 Masters of Horror (Mass Market Paperback)

Good Book. I say that this book is a great way to find new authors. The stories of the book go both ways, from good to bad. Christopher Pike is a great author, with a beautiful way of writing, while D.E. Athkins, (in my opinion) is writing more for a little kid, than a young adult. Although your opinion will switch from story to story, this is a great instrument to gain new insight to authors you never would think of reading. I give this book 3 stars. I feel it could have more suspense and sometimes better writers. None the less, I feel it is a great 'light' book. You can use this book on a trip or just if you want to relax. The short stories are a great way of letting go for a little while. Sit back and enjoy