Dark Voices 3: The Pan Book of Horror

Dark Voices: The Pan Book of Horror

by David A. Sutton (Editor), Stephen Jones (Editor), Bob Shaw

For 32 years The Pan Book of Horror has turned the blood in your veins to red ice. In this latest chilling collection, horror's most sinister stars and nightmarish newcomers gather together to draw you into the darkest depths of dread...

MONSTERS... MUTILATION... TORTURE...SUICIDE... REVENGE... POSSESSION... DISMEMBERMENT... DEATH...

...Dark Voices 3 the reign of terror continues.

Contents:
A Real Downer (1991) by Bob Shaw.
The Academy of Pain (1968) by Basil Copper.
Amy (1991) by Richard Easter.
The Pattern (1976) by Ramsey Campbell.
The Company (1991) by Mark Morris.
Puss (1991) by Lene Kaaberbøl.
The Picnickers (1991) by Brian Lumley.
Christmas with Jeremy (1991) by Melanie Tem.
He Who Laughs (1991) by Stephen Laws.
Nasty Little Habits by Robert Hood.
Vision in a T-Bird (1991) by Charles Wagner.
5a Bedford Row (1990) by Graham Masterton.
Impermanent Mercies (1991) by Kathe Koja.
Not from Around Here (1990) by David J. Schow.

Genres: Horror, Short Stories, Anthologies

317 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published January 1, 1991

About the author

David A. Sutton is the recipient of the World Fantasy Award, The International Horror Guild Award and twelve British Fantasy Awards for editing magazines and anthologies (Fantasy Tales, Dark Voices: The Pan Book Of Horror and Dark Terrors: The Gollancz Book Of Horror). Other anthologies include New Writings In Horror & The Supernatural, The Satyr’s Head & Other Tales Of Terror, Phantoms Of Venice, Haunts Of Horror and Darker Terrors. He has also been a genre fiction writer since the 1960s with stories appearing widely in anthologies and magazines, including in Best New Horror, Final Shadows, The Mammoth Book Of Merlin, Beneath The Ground, Shadows Over Innsmouth, The Black Book Of Horror, Subtle Edens, The Ghosts & Scholars Book Of Shadows, Psychomania, Second City Scares, Kitchen Sink Gothic, Phantasmagoria, Gruesome Grotesques, The Ghosts & Scholars Book Of Shadows and The Ghosts & Scholars Book Of Folk Horror. His short stories are collected in CLINICALLY DEAD & OTHER TALES OF THE SUPERNATURAL, DEAD WATER AND OTHER WEIRD TALES and EN VACANCES. He is also the proprietor of Shadow Publishing, a small press specialising in collections and anthologies.

Reviews

[Hugo · Rating 4 out of 5]

An uninspired opening, many old-fashioned stories with climaxes obvious from their opening pages (it's almost as if splatterpunk wasn't at its height at this point), but this gradually evens out with old (but not that old) hands such as Ramsey Cambell, Brian Lumley, Melanie Tem, Stephen Laws, Graham Masterton, and Kathe Koja offering contemporary stories worth the reading, before culminating in David Schow's superlative novella 'Not From Around Here'.