Short & Scary Thrillers

by Rebecca Rizzo (Editor, Introduction), Paul Spencer (Contributor), Thorp McClusky (Contributor)

Beware! - and have fun. The fourteen stories gathered together in Short & Scare Thrillers have been frightening people around campfires - and even in the safety of their own homes - for years. Even the bravest adults and older children will find their hearts beating faster as they listen breathlessly for each tale's ending, clutched in imagination's most gripping climaxes. Master storytellers such as Edgar Allen Poe and Saki nimbly entangle reader and listener alike. Your presence is requested...but don't say we didn't warn you! (Previously published as Campfire Thrillers: The Short and Scary Ones.)


CONTENTS
You Must Flee Again by Paul Spencer
The Kit Bag by Algernon Blackwood
The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar by Edgar Allan Poe
Smee by A.M. Burrage
The Bishop's Ghost and The Printer's Baby by Frank Richard Stockton
John Bartine's Watch by Ambrose Bierce
The Open Window by Saki
Le Vert Galant by Anonymous
On The River by Guy de Maupassant
The Considerate Hosts by Thorp McClusky
To Be Taken With A Grain of Salt by Charles Dickens
Across The Moors by W.F. Harvey
The Hall Bedroom by Mary E. Wilkins
Faces by Arthur J. Burks
The Secret of Macarger's Gulch by Ambrose Bierce

176 pages, Paperback

First published August 1, 1998

Reviews

[Clarence Reed]

ReedIII Quick Review: Childish, dated and in need of major updates.

[Shawn]

PLACEHOLDER REVIEW

"Faces" by Arthur J. Burks has a man survive a plane crash (very exciting) into a swamp in the Dominican Republic, and then find his way to civilization with the help of a ghost. Eh. Interesting for being the last story of (previously unknown to me) Burks' series of stories "Strange Tales from Santo Domingo" - but aside from that previously mentioned plane crash, not very good.

[Tiff]

There are 14 stories in this book. Some were really good and some just were not my type of story.