Satan's Pets

by Vic Ghidalia (Editor), Edmond Hamilton (Contributor), Harvey Jacobs (Contributor)

Contents

Out In The Garden by Philip K. Dick
Legacy of Terror by Henry Slesar
The Dogs of Dr. Dwann by Edmond Hamilton
Lefty Feep Gets Henpecked by Robert Bloch
The Rat Racket by David H. Keller
Keyhole by Murray Leinster
Thanks From The Whole Bouquet by Harvey Jacobs
The Remarkable Talent of Egbert Haw by Nelson Bond
The Animals In The Case by H. Russell Wakefield
The Cat by E.F. Benson

Genres: Horror

224 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1972

About the author

Victor Simon Ghidalia (1926-2013) was a US publicist for ABC TV. He co-edited eight anthologies with Roger Elwood between 1969 and 1975, and several solo anthologies between 1971 and 1977.

Reviews

[Shawn]

PLACEHOLDER REVIEWS

"The Rat Racket" by David H. Keller has numerous Manhattan businesses threatened by a new protection racket - if they don't pay, their business is swarmed by millions of rats - and this comes to pass. As the depredations continue, the local powers (Police, Chamber of Commerce) seem powerless to stop it, and it soon begins to spread to other cities across the U.S.. But one wealthy man, Winifred Willoby, has decided he will muster all of his powers and contacts together to defeat the rats...and the rats behind them. Well, this is a bit of pulp-styled wish fulfillment, something like an issue of THE SPIDER ("The Rat King Calls The Tune!" or somesuch) in which vast forces of crime and justice are deployed against one another. Silly, but not a bad read.