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* Read # Haunted Legends by Ellen Datlow, Nick Mamatas Þ eBook or Kindle ePUB. Haunted Legends Valente, Kit Reed, Ekaterina Sedia, and thirteen other fine writers to create stories unlike any they've written before. Lansdale, Caitlin Kiernan, Catherynne M. Winner of the 2010 Bram Stoker Award for Best Anthology!Darkly thrilling, these twenty new ghost stories have all the chills and power of traditional ghost stories, but each tale is a unique retelling of an urban legend from the world over.Multiple award-winning editor Ellen Datlow and award-nominated author and editor Nick Mamatas recr
Title | : | Haunted Legends |
Author | : | |
Rating | : | 4.75 (527 Votes) |
Asin | : | 076532301X |
Format Type | : | paperback |
Number of Pages | : | 352 Pages |
Publish Date | : | 2015-12-21 |
Language | : | English |
She lives in Manhattan. ELLEN DATLOW has won eight World Fantasy Awards, two Bram Stoker Awards, the International Horror Guild Award, two Hugo Awards, and two Locus Awards for her work as an editor. In a career spanning more than twenty-five years, she has been the fiction editor of OMNI and SCIFI.CO
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. A few famous figures appear (such as the mysterious hitchhiker in Kaaron Warren's "That Girl" and Gary A. . Valente's "15 Panels Depicting the Sadness of the Baku and the Jotai," a whimsical and dreamy foray into Japanese myth. International entries include Ekaterina Sedia's disturbing "Tin Cans," about girls murdered by Stalin aide Lavrenty Beria, and Catherynne M. From Publishers Weekly Datlow (Lovecraft Unbound) and Mamatas (Spicy Slipstream Stories) collect 20 original stories based on ghost legends from around the world. Another standout is the riveting "The Folding Man" by Joe Lansdale, featuring a mysterious, murder
A Fine Collection of Stories Daniel Powell I'm a huge fan of oral folklore and urban legends. I teach a short section on Florida's Cracker culture and some of the local oral folklore a couple of times every year here at FSCJ, and my students really seem to enjoy investigating the local legends. I've taken student groups to St. Augustine and Fernandina Beach for guided ghost tours. Northeast Florida is rich with haunted history, and it's been a neat learning experience to watch them unravelling some of that stuff through research and composition.So it was with great anticipation that I got my copy of Haunted Legends, an anthology edited by Nick Mamatas and. Wonderfully Creepy Quality Stories I very, very much enjoyed Haunted Legends. I'm a sucker always for great short stories, ghost stories and creepy stories and found a lot of entertainment in this selection - highest marks to the marvelous Caitlin Kiernan (for the wonderfully eerie "Red As Red"), Ekaterina Sedia's Stalin-era horror ("Tin Cans"), Cat Valente's gorgeous Japanese myth ("Fifteen Panels Depicting the Sadness of the Baku and the Jotai"), Jeffrey Ford (for "Down Atison Road" which makes me want to explore the Pine Barrens right now) and Laird Barron (for the wonderfully ominous "The Redfield Girls"). And Richard Bowes "Knickerbocker Holi. J. Arena said Fun and creepy!. I am a sucker for all those books telling the stories of hauntings and spooky legends at various places I've visited. So, I was pleased to discover this truly wonderful anthology, Haunted Legends. The writing in these stories is oh-so-much better than can be expected in stories of this nature, and, with little exception I was thoroughly mesmerized by every tale.Good book!
Valente, Kit Reed, Ekaterina Sedia, and thirteen other fine writers to create stories unlike any they've written before. Lansdale, Caitlin Kiernan, Catherynne M. Winner of the 2010 Bram Stoker Award for Best Anthology!Darkly thrilling, these twenty new ghost stories have all the chills and power of traditional ghost stories, but each tale is a unique retelling of an urban legend from the world over.Multiple award-winning editor Ellen Datlow and award-nominated author and editor Nick Mamatas recruited Jeffrey Ford, Ramsey Campbell, Joe R. These twenty nightmares, brought together by two renowned editors of the dark fantastic, are delightful visions sure to send shivers down the spines of horror readers.. Tales to make readers shiver with fear, jump at noises in the night, keep the lights on
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