Reviews

The 13 Best Horror Stories of All Time by Leslie Pockell

shelfaddiction's review

3.0

This book was full of classing horror stories. Taking it for what is is (classic stories), it's a pretty good selection of stories.

Don't plan on being scared, plan on feeling like your back in your college English Lit class. Some of the stories were good, but not scary by any means. Maybe we are desensitized and things that were scary in the early 1900's aren't scary today...who knows. I found that with my book club, who just finished reviewing this book, you either love it or you don't.

leaton01's review

4.0

Overall, this is a solid representation of some great and classic horror authors. They have Lovecraft, Machen, Stevenson, Stoker, Poe, Le Fanu, Blackwood, and others. Classics like The Call of Cthulhu, The Great God Pan, and The Willows are perfectly chosen for this collection but then they throw away opportunities for great stories from other authors by offered in up The Bottle Imp by Stevenson which seems much less interesting in terms of horror than The Body Snatcher among others. Green Tea by Le Fanu was also much less enthralling than Camilla. However, if you want a solid introduction to some of the great horror writers in the 19th and early 20th century, this is a great place to start.

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squeegybeckinheim's review

3.0

I honestly don't have much to say about this book. I did enjoy it, but what can you really say about a collection of stories? There were the classic tales like "The Tell Tale Heart" and "The Monkey's Paw". There were also some new stories I had never read before. I especially enjoyed "Green Tea". I wouldn't call these tales especially "horrifying", but it was a decent collection nonetheless.

lnatal's review

3.0

Monsters from the deep terrorise the coast of Devon. HG Wells' adventure is read by Robert Bathurst.