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72 voters
Werewolves and Shapeshifters: Encounters with the Beast Within
by
John Skipp ,
George R.R. Martin , Charlaine Harris , Neil Gaiman (Goodreads Author) , H.P. Lovecraft , Joe R. Lansdale , Angela Carter , Bentley Little
,
more…
Werewolves and shapeshifters have morphed into the latest pop culture stars. This mind-bending collection includes thirty-two new and classic stories from the best writers in the genre
Werewolves and shapeshifters are the latest literary craze following vampires and zombies. The phenomenal success of the Twilight series, and the blockbuster movies that followed, has spawne...more
Werewolves and shapeshifters are the latest literary craze following vampires and zombies. The phenomenal success of the Twilight series, and the blockbuster movies that followed, has spawne...more
Paperback, 632 pages
Published
September 22nd 2010
by Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers
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Werewolves and Shapeshifters
Edited by John Skipp
Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers
This is a must read for fans of horror fiction. John Skipp has done here something that editors always try to do when they do a theme anthology. If this is not the ultimate collection of shapeshifter I want to pointed to one that is better.
Featuring classics from as far back as Hp Lovecraft’s Shadow over innsmouth to 80’s classics by David Schow and George RR Martin. The collection goes from strength to strengt...more
Edited by John Skipp
Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers
This is a must read for fans of horror fiction. John Skipp has done here something that editors always try to do when they do a theme anthology. If this is not the ultimate collection of shapeshifter I want to pointed to one that is better.
Featuring classics from as far back as Hp Lovecraft’s Shadow over innsmouth to 80’s classics by David Schow and George RR Martin. The collection goes from strength to strengt...more
Reading this book is like hanging out with a friend who has a genuine love for the horror genre. Like many discussions, things spin off in tangential directions a times, but the content of the conversation is overall good, so who's complaining?
What I am trying to say here is, despite the marketing, this book is not exclusively about werewolves or even animal shapeshifters. It's ultimately a collection of stories regarding transformation. Skipp's base is in horror fiction, but he also spins off i...more
What I am trying to say here is, despite the marketing, this book is not exclusively about werewolves or even animal shapeshifters. It's ultimately a collection of stories regarding transformation. Skipp's base is in horror fiction, but he also spins off i...more
Reading this book was probably a case of the wrong expectations. The first half of the book had some very creative treatments of the Werewolf and Shapeshifter theme that fell on the supernatural fantasy side of the spectrum. There was also a classic horror addition by H.P. Lovecraft, who I have often enjoyed. Then the stories flipped into serious horror on the really disturbing end of the spectrum. I could recommend this book for hard core horror fans (just get through the first half) but I am n...more
Icons rub elbows with iconoclasts. The whimsical plays off the Gothic, the depraved off the magical. Werewolves and Shapeshifters: Encounters with the Beast Within is skillfully assembled, thoughtprovoking and constantly enjoyable from the Shadow Over Innsmouth to Nicole Cushing's brilliant All I Need to Know I Learned in Piggie Class and Carlton Mellick III's surprisingly tender War Pig. A great buy for any horror and Bizarro fan or just any reader curious about the hermeneutic movement of the...more
I loved this! Any time I read a story and think to myself "What is WRONG with this author?! They're sick! SICK, I tell you!" I know it was a good read. Short stories ranging from the funny & goofy to the truly disturbing.
Great book! I love most of the stories in this. Most are horror based while a few are comedic. I would definately recommend this book to fans the of horror genre
I have story in this book, so I'm a bit biased. =)
A few real gems in these pages, sadly interspersed by dry tales that, for me as a reader, fell well short of the pumped-up, "you're gonna love this one!" previews given by the anthologist before each story. It appears John Skipp and I, simply put, have differing literary tastes... That being said, the entire anthology was well-worth slogging through, for the rich mystery of George R. R. Martin's contribution to the collection, "The Skin Trade". More of that, please!
I think that John Skipp and I will be parting ways. I've read his Werewolves & Shapeshifters collection, and his Demons collection. He and I have very different opinions on what makes a good short story. He managed to put in two or three stories that I liked, but the rest was pretty much crap.
As near as I can figure, I won't get anything else out of his books unless I hollow them out for storage.
As near as I can figure, I won't get anything else out of his books unless I hollow them out for storage.
This was a surprisingly quick read for its length. Overall there were more hits than misses for me, and fortunately those misses were among the shorter stories in the collection. Several choices left me wanting to look into the author’s other works, as a good anthology should.
I would really like to give this collection a 4.5. What a great assembly of shapechanger stories!
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