Yes! Wow! Yippee!
How many ways can I show my excitement for A Book of Horrors, edited by Stephen Jones? Well, I’m not going to go all Elizabeth Barrett Browning here and count the ways, but geez louise was this a wonderful gift to lovers of all things scary.
Jones pulled out some heavy hitters with Stephen King, Ramsey Campbell, Caitlin Kiernan, and Richard Christian Matheson, but the entire lineup of writers did a ghoulishly good job, enough to make any fan boy drown in a puddle of his own saliva.
I think most readers, like me, dive into books like this with low expectations of writers we aren’t familiar with. For example, I never before heard of John Ajvide Lindqvist, and when I got to his story (The Music of Bengt Karlsson, Murderer) I felt the quality of this anthology would take a dive. Wrong. I should have better trusted Stephen Jones, as this was perhaps my favorite chiller in the bunch.
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