chmccann's review
4.0
Some great stories, with fabulous introductions from noted horror writers. A few stories didn't work for me, but overall this is an amazing introduction to scary short stories!
huligari's review
4.0
As a rule, I don't like scary stories. I don't even know how I finished this book, and I'll probably won't read it again. Ramsey Campbell's The Pattern scared the shit out of me. By the time I got to the last two pages, I literally had to put the book down and do something else, watch TV, read something funny. It took me around two days to pluck up the courage to touch the book and finally finish it. (I think I flung the book away and cried in a corner afterwards; it was really traumatizing.)
It's about the inevitability of horror, that terrible things would happen, and like a typhoon, nothing you do can stop it from coming and destroying everything you love and hold dear.
Close second is Edogawa Rampo's The Human Chair. Creepy, perverted and twisted in all the good ways.
It's about the inevitability of horror, that terrible things would happen, and like a typhoon, nothing you do can stop it from coming and destroying everything you love and hold dear.
Close second is Edogawa Rampo's The Human Chair. Creepy, perverted and twisted in all the good ways.
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