Horrors, Horrors, Horrors

by Helen Hoke (Editor), Bill Prosser (Illustrator)

Fifteen horror stories by Benson, Dunsany, Sturgeon, Bradbury, and other masters show the innocent to be suspect, the ordinary to be bizarre, and the expected to be full of surprise

Genres: Horror

180 pages, Library Binding

First published January 1, 1978

About the author

Helen Jeanne Lamb Hoke (20 July 1903 - 26 March 1990) was an American author of children's books.

She wrote nearly 100 children's books and set up and ran children's book divisions in five publishing companies. Helen Hoke was well known for her anthologies on children’s humour, but she was also fascinated by the esoteric, the supernatural, and the weird.

In 1945, Hoke married Franklin M. Watts, who owned Franklin M. Watts, Inc., publishers, and became the vice-president and director of international projects.

Franklin Hoke is her grandson.

Reviews

[Greg Kerestan · Rating 5 out of 5]

Oh, this book... This book is totally, gleefully, anarchically not for kids, but children's libraries stocked it anyway. Classic horror of the sci-fi magazine and Playboy-fiction era, with a focus on the unsettling side and a heavy dose of body horror. When I was in fourth grade and discovered this and Hoke's other "Terrific Triple Titles" anthologies, I was in heaven. As an adult, they still hold up, because these aren't exactly YA anthologies- they're adult anthologies that happen to be BARELY suitable for YA audiences. Every kid deserves a little grown-up madness.

[Liz Morgan · Rating 2 out of 5]

A composition of many short stories that fall in the horror genre. I found it to be boring after the second or third story and dozed off.

[Andy Smith · Rating 3 out of 5]

Good!