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The Monster's Corner: Stories Through Inhuman Eyes (2011)

by Christopher Golden(Favorite Author)

3.57 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

0312646135 (ISBN13: 9780312646134)

languge

English

genre

Horror

publisher

St. Martin's Griffin

review 1: Short story collections are like sample platters. Great way to try several authors without commiting to a full length book. After an amazingly epic read, it can be hard to get into a novel that is good but not great. Or conversely after a really fluffy book, I'm not always ready to jump into a potential classic. Short stories are great transitional reading or for situations where one's attention span is short, like waiting in a doctor's office. The writer has to create a setting, characters and narrative in only a few pages, and as such a well crafted short story can be a thing of beauty. Most anthologies are hit or miss, with some gems and some lumps of rock. With an editor like Golden, the jewels will outnumber the pyrites. Worth the read.
review 2: There are... more a few gems here--Braunbeck's story is hilarious and shocking and all sorts of wonderful--but a lot of the book is just very bland. Some of them suffer from way too much exposition (like the Mothman story); others from too little (the story about the demon pornographer comes to mind). Even the reliable M.M. Smith isn't well represented here, although his story is still one of the better ones. less

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