The Little Book of Horrors: Tiny Tales of Terror

by Alphonse Allais, Priscilla Marron, Franz Kafka, et al.

Book Overview

Paperback: 126 pages Publisher: Barricade Books; First Edition Thus edition (February 1992) Language: English ISBN-10: 0942637429 ISBN-13: 978-0942637427 Product Dimensions: 7.7 x 5 x 0.5 inches... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0942637429
• ISBN13: 9780942637427
• Release Date: January 1992
• Publisher: Barricade Books
• Length: 126 Pages
• Weight: 0.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.1" x 7.7"

Customer Reviews

masterful writing

Here's an odd little horror book. A collection of short stories, and I mean REALLY short stories, that manage to paint entire novels in the space of a few pages or in some cases, a paragraph. The authors of these stories amazingly take a small amount of text to convey what other authors can take entire books to get across. The stories are compact, quick to get through and stay with you for a long time. Truly some great writing in this book. Mostly, it's just a fun read but if you're a writer it can also serve as a tool to see how some true artists widdle down complex stories into just a few words without losing anything in the telling. 126 pages with such authors contributing as Edward Gorey, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Ambrose Bierce. Worth a read through at the very least.