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The Skin Trade was the fifth volume in the Night Visions series of original horror story anthologies, and a very strong entry. It has three stories each from Stephen King and Dan Simmons, and a terrific werewolf novella by George R.R. Martin, the title of which was used for the mass market edition. It's really quite impressive how he became such a star in all three genres: science fiction, horror, and fantasy. Simmons did as well, of course, with science fiction and horror, and King is a genre a...
Brilliant stories by brilliant authors. I only just discovered the awesomeness of Dan Simmons with Summer of Night, but I've been a fan of Stephen King since I was 10. I'd never read George R R Martin before even though I'm a huge GoT fan. I'd heard that although the story is great (of course) his writing wasn't, so I hadn't bothered with any of his books. Big mistake! His novella, The Skin Trade, is one of the best short stories (supernatural horror, or otherwise) that I have ever read! I can't...
This gets five stars just for George R.R. Martin's werewolf novella. Everything else is just tasty frosting.
This is a collection of short stories, and the one that really stands out for me is The Skin Trade by George R.R. Martin. Imagine a light hearted private detective story with elements of werewolf (although they're not all wolves)mythology thrown in, and you've got the general idea. I really think this was the inspiration for Laurell K. Hamilton's Anita Blake series, although she took a darker, more police procedural approach, and worked in necromancy and vampirism as well.The other shorts in thi...
This is a collection of horror shorts and longs by Stephen King, Dan Simmons, and George R.R. Martin. Most of it was quite good, but one long story by Dan Simmons, "Iverson's Pits," nearly sunk it for me. Very, very long and boring. Of King's offerings, "Sneakers" was really good, and Simmons had a good one with "Metastasis." Martin's lone offering was "The Skin Trade," which was really good and tied off the collection nicely.
Rounded up to 3*** because although I didn’t like the endings in The Reploids and Sneakers I still enjoyed the stories.Dark Visions is a 1989 horror fiction compilation, with three short stories by Stephen King, three by Dan Simmons, and one by George R. R. Martin. I’m only reading Stephen King.***The Reploids – 2**The ending left me a little up in the air. At first I thought my copy was missing some pages, but apparently not!***Sneakers - 2**(Also collected in Nightmares and Dreamscapes)Another...
This book was quite the find – I picked it up for 50p in the Ten Bob Barn at Astley Book Farm. The cover jumped out at me to begin with because of its psychedelic design and awesome colours. It’s also a hardback, which helps – I don’t go out of my way to get them, but I do enjoy them when I find them. Mostly, though, this book caught my eye because it’s got Stephen King and George R. R. Martin in it.What we have here, then, is a cracking collection of shorts that are grouped by author, for your
I bought a paperback copy of this book from the U.K, same book but with a slightly different title: dark visions, I think. For me, George R.R. Martin's story stands out above the rest. It is so well crafted, and every piece of the story fits together right up to the last sentence. Moreover, it's a story that you can't put down and you care about the characters. And to think this is achieved within 120 pages or so. They really saved the best for last with this one, and now I'm fan of George R.R.
