Titles that are anti-appealing

So, I just got a list of books that are on sale, via BookBub, which I suppose happens every day, but I seldom pay that much attention.

Today I happened to have time, so I opened the mailing and glanced over the titles that are being offered for sale today.

This is one of them:

So, if you would like a copy of this collection of all Simak’s short fiction, today you are in luck! It’s 1.99 for the Kindle version on Amazon.

But what I mostly noticed was a visceral reaction to the title “I am Crying All Inside,” which can best be summed up as NO NO NO.

Wow, does that not sound a bit like anything I want to read. Only after that reaction did I realize that this is a collection.

Other stories included here:

— I Had No Head and My Eyes Were Floating Way Up in the Air

— Small Deer

— Gleaners

— Ogre

— Madness from Mars

— Gunsmoke Interlude

— The Call from Beyond

— All the Traps of Earth

Now, given those titles, which would YOU choose as the title for the whole collection? I think it’s a no-brainer. The most interesting title is the first in the list — I mean, your eyes are what? — but that isn’t the one that ought to be the title of the collection.

The one story title that is both evocative and non-horrific is The Call from Beyond. That’s the one I would have used.

Agree? Disagree?

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