The Day the Leash Gave Way and Other Stories

Highly recommend!!!

Zelazny's collection of short stories runs the gamut from gruesome to simply haunting, with more than a little noir.

'Hope Is an Inatimate Desire' is simply the eeriest ghost story I have ever come across, and literally gave me chills. A completely new and terrifying vision, Zelazny's creativity with the genre is mind-boggling.

That creativity is also put to gory use in the title story and others, most of them violent, some more disturbing than others.

The range of material here is huge, but it does manage to form a cohesive piece when collected into this book, mostly due to Zelazny's mastery with writing the inner darkness of often warped human psychology and twisted desire.

Highly recommend!

What about the novel?

There has been talk for a long time about a novel called Destination Unknown. Is that ever coming out? I really enjoyed this and have been looking forward to more.

Second time I've read it

I've read this collection twice since it came out. I liked it the first time. Second time it seems to have grown on me even more. The stories are funny and disturbing and you may need a certain type of sense of humor. For me, it is darkly twisted great fun. I recommend it to anyone who likes horror or quirky off-the-wall stories.

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