The Ultimate Halloween

by Marvin Kaye

Book Overview

Short stories--both original and traditional--about the night of October 31st are collected in this volume that features tales from such notable authors as Robert Bloch, H.P. Lovecraft, Edgar Allan... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0743423968
• ISBN13: 9780743423960
• Release Date: January 2001
• Publisher: iBooks
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.4" x 8.3"

Customer Reviews

Unbelievable!

I really enjoyed this book! I just stumbled on this compilation by accident, wanting a little Halloween ditty and couldn't put it down. There is a different tone to each story. From humor to fright, I loved each different story, especially the variety of styles.

Overall a good book for halloween

This is a pretty good book of halloween-themed stories. Overall, it's a good book with effective stories, but the stories themselves differ very much in themes. Some are humoristic, some are like fairy tales and others are more "classical" horror stories, including one of Lovecraft's hand. If you want an anthology of stories that have similar styles and atmospheres, don't try it, you will be disappointed, but if your objective is to remind yourselves about all of Halloween multi-facetted meanings, then indulge yourself with this wonderful book. Just don't expect the story you're starting to read to be like the one you've just finished. You will have your favorites, and you will have your not-so-favorites, but all the stories achieve what their authors sought to do with them.As for me, I believe it's going to become an annual tradition for October.