Books by Stephen Jones
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review 1: Not the strongest collection in this series, with more forgettable entries than usual and King's first contribution here an unfortunately weak one. Brian Lumley's "The Place of Waiting" was absolutely painful to slog through. It did have some high points, with Pinckney Benedict...
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review 1: While lacking in scares, the overall collection was appealing. It played more on the horror of human nature than on the paranormal (which, I admit, is what I was after). There were only two stories I didn't finish: "A Child's Problem" and "Near Zennor." The latter was too descrip...
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review 1: There were parts that I loved and thought were very interesting, and parts that I could barely bring myself to skim over (due to either boring technical subject matter or hard to read print type). I enjoyed the idea that some zombies could be higher functioning and still think or...
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review 1: Full of interesting details on how the book and film came to be, with plenty of input from Neil Gaiman himself, but a pretty sorry excuse for a "visual guide". By "art of Coraline" the title is alluding to how the film was put together (puppets and sets and visual effects), not s...
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review 1: This is a revised edition of a book that was originally published in 1994. I was curious, given my love for horror fiction anthologies, why I had no memory of purchasing the first edition back in the day and then I started reading. Oh yeah, the reason I never bought the first edi...
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review 1: Like any book of short stories it had it's ups and downs. Some stories were very good, and others were very dissapointing or down right dumb. I was very dissapointed by the Joe Hill story that technically wasn't about zombies at all, but really about actors who play zombies in a ...
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review 1: I knew that this would be my kind of horror as soon as I read the sentence "What the hell happened to the horror genre?"I agree with Stephen Jones that horror has been corrupted by romance. Jones was right to say that not every story was to my liking, in fact I still fail to see ...
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review 1: This anthology contains contributions by some of the best known modern horror writers, but strangely I found their offerings the weakest of the collection.I am a great fan of King, Campbell and Lindqvist, and have read nearly everything they have produced, so I was really looking...
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review 1: *This review may contain spoilers*Stephen Jones is an English editor of a number of horror anthologies and is also the author of “Zombie Apocalypse;” a mosaic style of novel.Zombie Apocalypse is unlike anything I’ve read before. But my love of Zombies made me pick it up in the ch...
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review 1: Coraline is the creepy tale of a young girl caught in another world. This dark and suspenseful tale is full of magic and mystery!Coraline discovered a small door in the parlor of her house. Thinking it was a door to another unit of the house, she opened it only to find a brick ...
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review 1: I am a great fan of the Mammoth book of best new horror.Of those I have read to date this is one of the weaker offering, I really struggled through the last 150 pages. The final batch of short stories being extremely poor and obscure. Kim Newman finishes of with novella which in...