A short little review on each story in the book - 1. The Adventure of My Grandfather by Washington Irving: (ghosts) 3/12/08 - Well, the writing is ancient, and truthfully a little confusing...some of it is story telling, and then the listener interjects, and well, sometimes it was confusing.And really, not much of a horror story...the furniture dances. Not scary at all, not even to "grandfather" who tried to dance with the clothes press. eh2. The Adventure of My Aunt by Washington Irving: (no ca...

There's a little something for everyone in this anthology. There's the more classic, leave much to the imagination scare (my favorite kind), and on the other end of the spectrum, there is the more overt, in your face kind of horror. I first encountered who has been come a favorite author of mine, Manly Wade Wellman in this anthology. It was love at first sight, reading his story about John the Balladeer. I knew I wanted to collect more of his fantastic southern gothic meets occult detective stor...

Great collection! This book contains a wide variety of what is scary and how the tales are told. Some stories bring me back to this book year after year.

I picked this up at a Barnes and Noble at least 25 years ago but this is the first time I actually read it cover to cover instead of just picking out a few stories based on name recognition. My only real nitpick is that the collection was ordered strictly on alphabetical order. I would prefer order by theme or possibly by era. Reading cover to cover led to some jarring switches, going from Poe or Ambrose Bierce or Washington Irving to a more contemporary author. I'm glad I kept it around in my l...

Any book of short stories is going to have both hits and misses. For me, this one definitely had more hits than misses, and only one story that I truly thought was bad.

A pretty decent collection of horror shorts. Kept my interest throughout. Some were really good and others were just average. There were a few too many nihilistic stories for my taste but I really enjoyed the stories that had a folktale-feel to them.

Ten years later, and I'm checking out my notes I made in this book as I was reading it...I was going to get rid of it since I haven't read it since, but...reading these notes again, I wonder if I should read my old favourites again first, at the very least.My favourites:"The Candidate" by Henry Slesar"The Certificate" by Avram Davidson (plotline)"Displaced Person" by Eric Frank Russell (well written)"The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar" by Edgar Allan Poe (creepy and gross)"Feeding Time" by Rob...

While this book features some classic stories it overall features lesser stories and most not really horrifying either and remarkably after a while a bit repetitive. That said there are some gems amongst the bramble and most of the stories short so a unremarkable tale is given over quickly to one down the road that is better. Overall though a disappointment.

100 stories in 500 pages, so this is a collection of horror flash fiction. No editorial explanation of the choices are given, and indeed there’s no introductory material of any sort for the stories themselves. The authors are almost entirely American, with the odd Brit thrown in here and there, and while a lot of big names are included, very few of the stories are their acknowledged masterpieces. The uniform length and genre leads to a lot of repetition - a little setup, then a nasty surprise (t...

Flash fiction anthology. I didn't read all of them. I mostly made my choices based on name recognition.My favorite of the bunch was Toy by Bill Pronzini which was a re-read. His other two contributions were worth reading. I won't skip any future stories of his I come across. I liked the Saki stories also. I plan to skip any future stories by Joe R. Lansdale, William F. Nolan and Charles L. Grant. Their contributions were enough to put them on my 'skip-em' list.-------------------------Read only

This is a compendium of a bunch of supernatural/horror shorties. Edgar Allen Poe, Ambrose Bierce, Washington Irving, H.P. Lovecraft, and E.F. Benson are all here but so are many other authors of whom I was ignorant.I prefer supernatural-themed short stories to outright horror stories. Atmosphere and suspense and potential twists keep me interested more than graphic violence. So there are a few tales in this book which describe bones being cut or someone being ripped apart. Not my thing. But then...

This is a book that really doesn’t tell you what you’re going to read other than there’s 100 stories and it’s horror themed. I have to say I only enjoyed a handful of them most of them to me wasn’t scary I guess when I think of horror I think of something that’s going to scare me but for other people it could scare them. I honestly bought this book so many years ago when I was probably a teenager and realized I never actually read it so thought I’d give it a chance. I think I paid eight bucks an...

An amazing collection of short stories, more than a couple that will stay with you longer than you want them to. Its been a couple years since I read this but I still remember some stories with more detail than I'd like. Highly recommended for anyone who enjoys horror or short stories in general, when I find my copy, definitely post a better review.

What an amazing collection of tales! Seriously, we're talking tiny, lil' stabs at horror from authors as wide-ranging as Washington Irving and Joe R. Landsdale, to Edgar Allan Poe and Richard Laymon, to Ambrose Pierce and Ramsey Campbell, to Mark Twain and Thomas F. Monteleone, to H.P. Lovecraft and Chet Williamson, to Nathaniel Hawthorne and Dennis Etchison, to Charles Dickens and F. Paul Wilson, to Rudyard Kipling and Ed Gorman. This is an absolute must have for both horror fiction fans and ho...

these books are very scary and hard to stop reading they might give you nightmares but it is totally worth it.

Fun little "spooky" stories. Most aren't all that frightening or shocking, but one VERY good one about a stranger at a bus stop. That one made a HUGE impression on me when I read this book.

This was a Barnes & Noble buy, copyright 1993. You get 100 short stories with the emphasis on.....horror. A variety of authors, some famous for horror stories : Edgar Allen Poe, Ambrose Pierce, H.P. Lovecraft. There are 3 lame offerings by Washington Irving. Other famous authors who are (rightly) not known for horror have some stories : Mark Twain (dreadful!), Charles Dickens, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Rudyard Kipling. Ironically, Steven King isn't represented & I consider his horror stories to be

Horror stories lend themselves well to flash fiction. A character or two, a concept, a climax and you're done. This anthology cleverly collects both modern horror flash fiction and short-short stories written before concept was named. Thus, you get a mix of modern authors with classics like Dickens and Benson. Many of these are quite good, and a few will linger in your head long after you put it down- I can't think of "How many miles to Babylon" without remembering the story linked to that poem

100 Hair Raising Little Horror Stories is an anthology of 100 shorter short stories. The authors and styles range from more contemporary to more classic. So depending on personal preference it's a hit or miss collection. Normally when I review anthologies, I rate each individual story, but 100 is a bit much. So to start, I'm not too interested in the classics, but there were a few good ones: "Berenice" by Poe is one of my favorites, and I even thought Washington Irving's "The Adventure of the Ge...

Quite a few of these will haunt me for a long time. "In the Corn", "Party Time", and "Ants". While "Give Her Hell" will simultaneously piss me off and make me laugh maniacally for the rest of my life anytime I think of it.But... There are a number of entries that just weren't it for me. They weren't spooky or worth the time spent reading them. Some were too old and the atmosphere was dry.I'm not quite sure how to feel about this book since some truly gave me chills while others felt like a chore...