Murder for Revenge: 12 New Original Stories

By Otto Penzler

Book Overview

This irresistible collection of original stories was born of a deliciously wicked idea: ask twelve of America's best writers to explore a single subject--people willing, often gleefully so, to kill... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0385317158
• ISBN13: 9780385317153
• Release Date: March 1998
• Publisher: Delacorte Press
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.5" x 1.3" x 7.0"

Customer Reviews

What a Find!

The first thing that I saw was the cover. Then I flipped through the book, looking at the table of contents. The reason I bought the book is somewhat hazy--but it had something to do with Shel Silverstein.Since I bought this book a few weeks before finals, I was trying so hard not to read it...I couldn't help it. I read it. All the way through. I thoroughly enjoyed it--I loved Shel Silverstein's poem, Mary Higgins Clark's story as well as many others.Though the cover made me feel embarassed to be holding the book, it is worth being teased for reading something that looks like pulp fiction. If you like this book, read "Murder for Love" as well. It's just as good, and some of the same writers write stories/poems for it.

Great Collection of Authors

If you like short stories, you won't want to miss this one. A great collection of today's most popular authors.Skip the last story by Peter Straub -- makes no sense and was out of place with the short stories -- it was a novella.

Best mystery anthology to come along in years

Otto Penzler has invited twelve of the top selling writers of mysteries to contribute a short story to his MURDER BY REVENGE anthology. All of the stories feature someone pushed over the edge, seeking to get even with the pusher. The tales range from comical to venomous to angst-laden, but they all share the fact that they are all well done. Unlike most anthologies, this collection contains blockbuster stories authored by superstars and they all do a fabulous job. Fans of murderous short stories could not get a better selection than those in this anthology. Contributors are a who's who, who all succeed: Laurence Block, Mary Higgins Clark, Thomas Cooke, Vicki Hendricks, Joan Hess, Judith Kelman, Eric Lustlaber, Philip Margolin, David Morell, Joyce Carol Oates, Shel Silverstein, and Peter Straub. Harriet Klausner