Dark: Stories of Madness, Murder and the Supernatural - Softcover

Willis, Clint

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1840185236 ISBN 13: 9781840185232

Publisher: Mainstream Publishing, 2005

Synopsis

A collection that features stories about the things that scare us most: murder, ghosts, insanity and our own vulnerability. It examines its subject through the eyes of the world's most gifted writers. Here they bring us face to face with evil in all of its forms.

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About the Author

Clint Willis is the series editor of the Adrenaline series. His twelve anthologies for the series include Climb: Stories of Survival From Rock, Snow and Ice and Wild. Stories of Survival from the World's Most Dangerous Places, also available through Mainstream. He lives with his wife and two sons in Cape Elizabeth USA.

From AudioFile

This collection of creepy stories mixes classics such as Edgar Allan Poe's "The Cask of Amontillado" and W.W. Jacobs's "The Monkey's Paw" with several more recent tales. Especially compelling are three first-person narratives: Graeme Malcolm's tale, told as if to spook party guests, of A.M. Burrage's "Smee"; Grover Gardner's bemused account of encounters with a seemingly delusional lady friend in Isaac Bashevis Singer's "The Cafeteria"; and Colleen Delany's descent into madness as her character probes the secrets of "The Yellow Wallpaper" in Charlotte Perkins Gilman's tale. With one exception--a Will Self excerpt that is more sick than spooky--these tales were well chosen and are grippingly performed. J.A.S. © AudioFile 2001, Portland, Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine

About this edition

• Publisher: Mainstream Publishing
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 1840185236
• ISBN 13: 9781840185232
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 352