Dark Love - Hardcover

Collins, Nancy A.; Kramer, Edward E.; Greenberg, Martin H.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0451454723 ISBN 13: 9780451454720

Publisher: Roc Hardcover, 1995

Synopsis

Introduction by T. E. D. Klein. Includes Stephen King story: "Lunch at the Gotham Cafe."

About this title

About the Author:

Martin H. Greenbergwas honored in 1995 by the Mystery Writers of America with the Ellery Queen Award for lifetime achievement in mystery editing. He is also the recipient of two Anthony awards. Mystery Scene magazine called him "the best mystery anthologist since Ellery Queen." He has compiled more than 1,000 anthologies andis the president of TEKNO books.He lives in Green Bay, Wisconsin.

From Publishers Weekly:

Love and death have been twinned in the horror genre ever since Poe imagined bedding his young bride in her sepulcher by the sea. Recently, several anthologies, spearheaded by Hot Blood (1989) and its sequels, have capitalized on horror fans' taste for the eros in thanatos. Dark Love may be the strongest such book yet. The first of its 22 original tales is a raucous Stephen King entry, "Lunch at the Golden Cafe," which takes a blood-smeared butcher blade to the notion of romantic love. Similarly subversive are Richard Laymon's "The Maiden," a gleefully nasty riff on adolescent lust, and Ed Gorman's "The End of It All," in which a man's reunion with his teenage crush inspires enough plot twists to fill a novel. Not all of the stories here work well. Some, like those by David J. Schow and Ramsey Campbell, are accomplished tales but seem to have only a tangential relation to the book's theme; then there's "Locked Away," by Karl Edward Wagner, which isn't much more than a parade of pornographic images. By contrast, two of the three best stories here?Kathe Koja's "Pas de Deux" and John Peyton Cooke's daring "The Penitent" (which explores the netherland of pain and domination)?use graphic detail for provocation rather than titillation. The book's final story, Douglas Winter's "Loop," about one man's obsession with a porno star, does the same, offering an insidiously seductive conclusion to one of the finest horror collections of the year.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Roc Hardcover
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0451454723
• ISBN 13: 9780451454720
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 352