The Campfire Collection: Thrilling, Chilling Tales of Alien Encounters

By Kristine Kathryn Rusch and Stephen King

Book Overview

You can run, but you can't hide...

The thinking outdoorsman's handbook to the heebie-jeebies, this third volume of our Campfire Collection gathers thirteen terrifying tales of alien abductions, encounters, and freakish forays into the unknown. Perfect to read aloud around a fire or in the comfort and "relative safety" of a cozy armchair, Thrilling, Chilling Tales of Alien Encounters offers stories from such masters of fright as Stephen King, Philip K. Dick, Damon Knight, and more. Designed with rounded corners, a durable cover, and large type for easy reading by campfire or flashlight, this rugged companion is more than trail-ready for any excursion. With an unnerving introduction by Michael Berry, science fiction and fantasy book reviewer for the San Francisco Chronicle, this creepy collection confirms that sinking feeling that something is just...not...quite...right....

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0811845141
• ISBN13: 9780811845144
• Release Date: May 2005
• Publisher: Chronicle Books
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 1.0" x 1.0"
• Age Range: 13 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 8 to Postsecondary

Customer Reviews

Don't judge a book.....

I expected this book to be first-hand accounts of people sucked up into saucers and inappropriate things done to them. To my very pleasant surprise, it is a book full of short stories of fictional encounters with aliens. Some of the stories are humorous, some of them terrifying, most are interesting at least. Best book of stories about aliens I've ever read? No, not at all. But the stories (some old) are a pleasant read and cover all the aspects of human interaction with those little green men.