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pat32's review
5.0
Did Laymon work for the Tales from the crypt TV show, his stories in this collection had the sex, gore, comedy and the horror that was seen in those episodes.
tbr_the_unconquered's review
1.0
The name of this book fits its contents to the letter. Contained inside the book I found some of the crappiest writing I have come across in this year. I suppose the intention was to come out with horror stories, but in end what I could make out of this is the kind of stuff that B-movies are made of.
Growing up, every guy goes through a phase when they are sexually hyperactive and generally rebellious with a lot of bad mouthing to complete the image. To me all the tales in the book were more or less told by such a narrator. There is sex in everything & no story passes by without giving you ample description of the female anatomy. It would have been enjoyable if the author knew how to do his job well. In every tale he outlines more or less the same body with different character names. The funniest part is that all his female characters are golden haired beauties with the same voluptuous body shapes !
It's sex,sex, more sex plus some gore and violence thrown in along with some unbelievably dumb characters.I rest my case.
Growing up, every guy goes through a phase when they are sexually hyperactive and generally rebellious with a lot of bad mouthing to complete the image. To me all the tales in the book were more or less told by such a narrator. There is sex in everything & no story passes by without giving you ample description of the female anatomy. It would have been enjoyable if the author knew how to do his job well. In every tale he outlines more or less the same body with different character names. The funniest part is that all his female characters are golden haired beauties with the same voluptuous body shapes !
It's sex,sex, more sex plus some gore and violence thrown in along with some unbelievably dumb characters.I rest my case.
camerontrost's review
3.0
These horror tales are written in simplistic prose that suits their tone and characters. In fact, if not for the content, you'd think they were aimed at teenagers. This is basic horror with plenty of gratuitous violence and clumsy sex. Scary hitchhiker and campsite stuff. I almost gave Dreadful Tales two stars, but a few stories were more cleverly written, intriguing, or had a twist that actually worked: Invitation to Murder, The Champion, Spooked, A Good Cigar is a Smoke, Oscar's Audition, and Roadside Pickup.
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