A review by glitterandtwang
IDW's Tales of Terror by Shikhar Dixit, John R. Platt, John Urbancik, Steve Niles, Beau Smith, Ben Templesmith, Kris Oprisko, Denise Ciencin, Jeffrey J. Mariotte, Jeffrey J. Mariotte, Michael Penncavage

2.0

If a collection starts with a defensive foreword about the inclusion of prose stories, citing the fact that "horror writers don't have enough places to publish," I suppose it's only fair to be skeptical. The first prose story in the collection is co-authored by a married couple, and all I could think as I read it was, "Really? It took TWO people to write this garbage?" It could have used a copy editor as well. A couple of the stories were all right, though there are a lot of clunky, terrible turns of phrase, even in the better selections. I picked this up primarily for Ben Templesmith's pieces. They aren't his best work, by any means, but they are the best things in this volume.