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An awesome collection of some of the world's best horror writers.
I love reading anthologies that have stories that grip me so hard I have to put it down for a few minutes just to digest what I have read. I truly enjoyed almost every story in this. “The Carbon Dreamer” by Jack Dann wasn’t really my sort of tale, but all of the others were great.
As with all anthologies, this one is a nixed bag: some great stories, lots of okay ones and a few that I just didn't get. For me, most of the stories were okay, one or two were head-scratchers. Here are the three that I found really effective.+ "Weeds" by Stephen King. If you've seen "Creepshow," then you know the basic plot. Unlike the movie, which played it for laughs, this story (originally published at least five years before the movie) plays it straight--and creepy.+ "Beholder" by Graham Ma...
I liked most of the stories, but I'd have to say that Memory River, and Arbeit Macht Frei are stand outs in this book. It's a lovely collection of horror short stories by some less known authors and a few well known ones such as Steven King and Clive Barker. It's definitely worth a read at night beside the fire place, or if you're out somewhere camping in the wilderness.
This is a nice little collection. However, no story really stuck out or stayed with me, but nothing was really horrible either. I am a fan of Chizmar and he collected some very good authors here. If you are a fan of horror short stories, you could do worse.
Mostly average stories that were nonetheless entertaining but none except Kaaron Warren’s Bower Birds aspired to anything above this.Once again a Stephen King story from 1976 was dredged up for this otherwise contemporary anthology. It isn’t a bad story except I knew exactly what was going to happen since it was one of the episodes in the movie Creepshow by King and George Romero (of Night of the Living Dead, etc. fame). Interestingly enough, King plays the protagonist of the story Jordy Verill
Table of Contents:9 - "The Departed" by Clive Barker17 - "Red Rover, Red Rover" by Norman Partridge37 - "Breakbone" by Bill Pronzini49 - "The Storybook Forest" by Norman Prentiss61 - "Simple" by Al Sarrantonio69 - "Born Dead" by Lisa Tuttle70 - "The Baby Store" by Ed Gorman93 - "A Lonely Town in Alaska" by Darren Speegle113 - "Zombie Dreams" by Tim Waggoner131 -"Echoes" by Don D'Ammassa145 - "Bone by Bone" by Scott Nicholson157 - "Sleeping with the Bower Birds" by Kaaron Warren170 - "Memory Lake...
The Shivers anthologies, volumes 5 and 6, were important to me because they presented a wide range of horror stories across several generations of writers and horror sub genres, all from an important indie horror publisher. Some of the writers I follow religiously are ones I found in these anthologies. Shivers 7 is similar in scope but with a bigger page count. The stories in it are uneven at best. Especially from the veteran authors. It's a funny thing when you can tell that you are reading a w...
I love scary stories by great writers. This is a great scary book!
Brilliant collection of stories. The only one I could say I didn't like was "Beholder" but that's because I have serious eye squick!
Good collection of stories.
Some great stories including "Weeds" by Stephen King
All these stories are excellent examples of horror fiction but five of these will stick with you long after you finish the book. There is the growing terror of Red Rover, the revulsion and visceral horror of Break Bone, the sense of utter hopelessness of Beholder, the shocking ending of GPS and the first appearance in any anthology of the Stephen King epic Weeds which is the basis of the Lonesome Death of Jordy Verril which the King himself played so perfectly in the movie Creepshow. This is a g...
Most of the stories here are decent but the only ones that really excelled were by Graham Masterton and Kaaron Warren. Overall, an average collection.
