50 Great Horror Stories

by John Canning

Book Overview

A story that has the power of evoking a sense of horror has always carries a strange fascination. By horror, as the editor points out, is meant not the horrible - the grisly detailing of gore and... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0517136716
• ISBN13: 9780517136713
• Release Date: October 1987
• Publisher: Random House Value Publishing
• Length: 494 Pages
• Weight: 1.84 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Some good reads

While the copyright of this collection is 1971, which is almost 40 years ago, many of the stories within contain references and subject matter to much earlier times. Many of the stories contain "olde english" and talk of times as early back as 1500 or 1600. Mostly the stories do contain a common element in that they are for the most part actually scary. Having read many horror anthologies that put me right to sleep at night, this one will give you a few scares, a pleasant surprise seeing I got the book on the cheap.