Tombs

by Peter Crowther (Editor), Edward E. Kramer (Editor), Forrest J. Ackerman (Contributor)

Journey deep beneath the Vatican to discover a revelation of unspeakable truth...experience the vacation of a lifetime (but bear in mind that you can never return)...and board a top secret nuclear submarine during its desperate final moments. From a prosaic trash dumpster to a derelict space station, from a very addictive pair of spectacles to a particularly intelligent piece of software, from the secret temples of ancient Egypt to the high Tatra Mountains of Slovakia, Tombs provides twenty-three fascinating stories about the things which bind us all...both physically and emotionally.

Genres: Horror, Anthologies, Fantasy, Short Stories, Fiction

346 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1994

About the author

Peter Crowther, born in 1949, is a journalist, anthologist, and the author of many short stories and novels. He is the co-founder of PS Publishing and the editor of Postscripts.

Reviews

[Jim]

The stories in this collection were, overall, well-written. However, they were not all that interesting. And many were long. Too long. Although I did much enjoy one of the longer stories, I can't recommend the collection, it being comprised, if I mentioned, of too many stories being too long and not all that interesting. As a bonus, the book is very long in and of itself, providing ample room for many stories that are too long, and, also, not that interesting.

[Hunter Johnson]

Tombs, edited by Edward E. Kramer. Hit-and-miss story collection from White Wolf. The hits were worth slogging through the misses, though, and I got this off the deep discount rack at the local game store, so final tally is a win.

[Patricia Ferreira]

I was surprised, I can't tell a lie. At first I was not expecting very much from this book, and, indeed, some short stories are extremely boring, but there are others that are extremely awesome, so it levels itself out. A good book.

[Karen]

This book is an anthology of stories about 'tombs', some literal, some figurative. Like all stories collections, this book is good, bad, and indifferent. I skimmed through about one-third of the stories because they didn't interest me at all. Of those I read thoroughly to the end, some were OK, but nothing memorable. A few, however, were so intriguing that I was led to research other books by those authors. So, all in all, this book is a pretty successful anthology.