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Phantom [NOOK Book]
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EasyReader65
Posted July 1, 2011
This is just about the worst collection of so-called horror stories I have ever attempted to read. In a misguided effort to transcend the usual blood and gore of the genre, the authors and compilers have produced nothing of horror..just horrible, pretentious, artsy-fartsy, dissonant prose. It was bad Lewis Carrol on acid. News flash, guys... Even intellectuals appreciate a well-told story and entertaining verbage. Maybe, if you're lucky, this book will be discussed on some community-access channel by a couple of bored academic types at 11:30 at night. The true art of story-telling has been sent down the toilet in this quest to "create art." I would be embarrassed to be included, were I an author. In trying to elevate the genre, you destroyed it.
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Posted March 31, 2011
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Overview
No ax murderers hunting sexy teens . . . no brutal torture for torture's sake . . . because PHANTOM goes beyond the scare: Paul Tremblay and Sean Wallace have collected fourteen stories by today's most thoughtful writers of horror, each asking the questions beyond what is frightening? This is just the beginning, however, with stories from Steve Rasnic Tem, Lavie Tidhar, F. Brett Cox, Stephen Graham Jones, Steve Berman, Nick Mamatas, Michael Cisco, among other fresh voices in horror.From paranoid gold prospectors to lonely curators, Satan-worshipping Long Island teens, metaphysics-obsessed television reporters, and to Peter and Olivia and their ...