A Walk with the Beast

by Charles M. Collins

Book Overview

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0380005069
• ISBN13: 9780380005062
• Release Date: January 1969
• Publisher: Avon Books
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Vintage tales of were-beasts and human monsters

Behind an enjoyably garish cover (from the same artist as Night of the Vampire) lurks a nifty little collection of golden oldies. The anthology is divided into two sections; the supernatural and the human (the beast within). I picked this up today in a used bookstore and am just now digging into it, so I'll just offer up the table of contents and back cover blurb for now. THE WERE-BEASTS! Snakes, tigers, wolves - even a particularly horrifying elephant creature - abound in this collection of vintage terror tales. A woman lives as a tiger; a young prince is enmeshed in the coils of a snake-woman; all the people of all these tales live with the threat of the beast - and sometimes the beast within! CONTENTS Introduction by Editor Charles M. Collins Prince Alberic and the Snake Lady by Vernon Lee The White Wolf of the Hartz Mountains by Frederick Marryat One of the Dead by William Wood Count Szolnok's Robots by D. Scott-Moncrieff The Man and the Snake by Ambrose Bierce The Headless Miller of Kobold's Keep by Irvin Ashkenazy Tiger Cat by David H. Keller Curious Adventure of Mr. Bond by Nugent Barker The Elephant Man by Sir Frederick Treves Bart EDIT: I've had a chance to read a few of the tales and have enjoyed them, so that makes the book worth picking up for something more than just the garish cover. The White Wolf of the Hartz Mountains by Frederick Marryat, One of the Dead by William Wood, and The Headless Miller of Kobold's Keep by Irvin Ashkenazy were all fun, so three out of three were good so far!