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The Undead
Book by James dickie
224 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1971
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April 29, 2016
Wow what an awesome read. This book looks to be hard to find, which is a shame as it may have been the best short story collection I've ever read.
This is a literary collection of horror stories all dealing with vampires. Most of the stories are around a century old, some older, some newer. The editor did a fantastic job of picking stories.
There's not really a weak story in the book, and some of the authors include Bram Stoker, Clark Ashton Smith, Ambrose Bierce, HP Lovecraft, Manly Wade Wellman and many others.
If you enjoy literary horror and/or vampires, this collection is definitely worth tracking down. Highest possible recommendation.
This is a literary collection of horror stories all dealing with vampires. Most of the stories are around a century old, some older, some newer. The editor did a fantastic job of picking stories.
There's not really a weak story in the book, and some of the authors include Bram Stoker, Clark Ashton Smith, Ambrose Bierce, HP Lovecraft, Manly Wade Wellman and many others.
If you enjoy literary horror and/or vampires, this collection is definitely worth tracking down. Highest possible recommendation.
December 9, 2018
Funny thing - when I was entering the ISBN-10 (0330237977) for this book, my phone suggested a couple of words it thought I might have meant to type instead of this string of numbers: precarious; perpituity. Now, it struck me as particuarly apposite that an existence of precarious perpituity should be associated with the undead, simultaneously hovering, as they are, between immortality and the danger of a stake-and-garlic induced oblivion. I'm not sure what it means that I am receiving such messages via my phone's software.
While I haven't yet read the book, it does contain a few anthlogical 'usual suspects', such as Stoker's Dracula's Guest and a couple of E.F. Benson's and H.P. Lovecraft's. Nice that there's a couple by the less anthologised, but nonetheless wonderfully weird, Clark Ashton Smith. Outside of those stories I've already read, there are three or four new-to-me offerings which I look forward to getting around to one dark night.
While I haven't yet read the book, it does contain a few anthlogical 'usual suspects', such as Stoker's Dracula's Guest and a couple of E.F. Benson's and H.P. Lovecraft's. Nice that there's a couple by the less anthologised, but nonetheless wonderfully weird, Clark Ashton Smith. Outside of those stories I've already read, there are three or four new-to-me offerings which I look forward to getting around to one dark night.
July 16, 2018
This is a collection of quaint short stories about vampires and vampire-like beings. They're not gory and are more haunting or eerie than scary. Overall, they're pretty sedate and kinda boring.
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