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The Arbor House Treasury of Horror and the Supernatural
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599 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1981
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Martin H. Greenberg
907 books159 followersMartin Harry Greenberg was an American academic and speculative fiction anthologist. In all, he compiled 1,298 anthologies and commissioned over 8,200 original short stories. He founded Tekno Books, a packager of more than 2000 published books. In addition, he was a co-founder of the Sci-Fi Channel.
For the 1950s anthologist and publisher of Gnome Press, see Martin Greenberg.
For the 1950s anthologist and publisher of Gnome Press, see Martin Greenberg.
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January 14, 2016
Classic Halloween scares.
September 1, 2007
One of the three best horror anthologies, along with Dark Forces and Dark Descent. It's a huge book -- if you can only have one, get this one.
August 1, 2020
Some duds and some absolutely brilliant chillers. More psychological than gruesome, though there are a few of those. And, wonderfully, some horror stories written by some surprising voices: Winston Churchill, William Faulkner, Truman Capote, and HG Wells.
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March 25, 2019I haven't read enough of this to give it a fair rating, but I love everything I have read. It was assigned for school, so I will be reading more of this once the semester is over.
December 14, 2018
Some of the stories you may have read back in your high school days, or when you thought it was cool to be gothic and others you read on your own. While I love this complexity of horror masters, new and old, I wish there was just a bit more, overall. Good read.
July 6, 2020
Great read! I loved having a lot of the classic horror writers in this collection. I wish there could have been a bit more overall but this was definitely a neat find of mine, I might re-read for Halloween.
September 26, 2015
Excellent anthology. Highly recommended.
November 25, 2023
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August 11, 20121) Hop Frog; Poe, Edgar Allan
2) Rappaccini's Daughter; Hawthorne, Nathaniel
3) Squire Toby's Will; le Fanu, J. Sheridan
4) The Squaw; Stoker, Bram
5) The Jolly Corner; James, Henry
6) "Man Overboard!"; Churchill, Winston
7) The Hand; Dreiser, Theodore
8) The Valley of the Spiders; Wells, H.G.
9) The Middle Toe of the Right Foot; Bierce, Ambrose
10) Pickman's Model; Lovecraft, H.P.
11) Yours Truly, Jack the Ripper; Bloch, Robert
12) The Screaming Laugh; Woolrich, Cornell
13) A Rose for Emily; Faulkner, William
14) Bianca's Hands; Sturgeon, Theodore
15) The Girl with the Hungry Eyes; Leiber, Fritz
16) Shut a Final Door; Capote, Truman
18) Come and Go Mad; Brown, Fredric
19) The Scarlet King; Hunter, Evan
20) Sticks; Wagner, Karl Edward
21) Sardonicus; Russell, Ray
22) A Teacher's Rewards; Phillips, Robert
23) The Roaches; Disch, Thomas M.
25) The Jam; Slesar, Henry
26) Black Wind; Pronzini, Bill
27) The Road to Mictlantecutli; James, Adobe
28) Passengers; Silverberg, Robert
29) The Explosives Expert; Lutz, John
30) Call First; Campbell, Ramsey
31) The Fly; Porges, Arthur
32) Namesake; Morton, Elizabeth
33) Camps; Dann, Jack
34) You Know Willie; Cogswell, Theodore R.
35) The Mindworm; Kornbluth, C.M.
36) Warm; Sheckley, Robert
37) Transfer; Malzberg, Barry N.
38) The Doll; Oates, Joyce Carol
39) If Damon Comes; Grant, Charles L.
40) Mass Without Voices; Samuels, Arthur L.
41) The Oblong Room; Hoch, Edward D.
42) The Party; Nolan, William F.
43) The Crate; King, Stephen
2) Rappaccini's Daughter; Hawthorne, Nathaniel
3) Squire Toby's Will; le Fanu, J. Sheridan
4) The Squaw; Stoker, Bram
5) The Jolly Corner; James, Henry
6) "Man Overboard!"; Churchill, Winston
7) The Hand; Dreiser, Theodore
8) The Valley of the Spiders; Wells, H.G.
9) The Middle Toe of the Right Foot; Bierce, Ambrose
10) Pickman's Model; Lovecraft, H.P.
11) Yours Truly, Jack the Ripper; Bloch, Robert
12) The Screaming Laugh; Woolrich, Cornell
13) A Rose for Emily; Faulkner, William
14) Bianca's Hands; Sturgeon, Theodore
15) The Girl with the Hungry Eyes; Leiber, Fritz
16) Shut a Final Door; Capote, Truman
18) Come and Go Mad; Brown, Fredric
19) The Scarlet King; Hunter, Evan
20) Sticks; Wagner, Karl Edward
21) Sardonicus; Russell, Ray
22) A Teacher's Rewards; Phillips, Robert
23) The Roaches; Disch, Thomas M.
25) The Jam; Slesar, Henry
26) Black Wind; Pronzini, Bill
27) The Road to Mictlantecutli; James, Adobe
28) Passengers; Silverberg, Robert
29) The Explosives Expert; Lutz, John
30) Call First; Campbell, Ramsey
31) The Fly; Porges, Arthur
32) Namesake; Morton, Elizabeth
33) Camps; Dann, Jack
34) You Know Willie; Cogswell, Theodore R.
35) The Mindworm; Kornbluth, C.M.
36) Warm; Sheckley, Robert
37) Transfer; Malzberg, Barry N.
38) The Doll; Oates, Joyce Carol
39) If Damon Comes; Grant, Charles L.
40) Mass Without Voices; Samuels, Arthur L.
41) The Oblong Room; Hoch, Edward D.
42) The Party; Nolan, William F.
43) The Crate; King, Stephen
May 29, 2016
Rating an anthology is difficult for me. While there were some five star stories in this book, there were some one star stories too. The average story scored a four.
That aside, the editors did a great job choosing stories that flowed well. The intro to each story was as interesting as the stories themselves. Stephen King's forward may have been my favorite part!
A great book for getting up to snuff on your horror writers- a nice little sampling from many recognizable names. Well worth reading.
That aside, the editors did a great job choosing stories that flowed well. The intro to each story was as interesting as the stories themselves. Stephen King's forward may have been my favorite part!
A great book for getting up to snuff on your horror writers- a nice little sampling from many recognizable names. Well worth reading.
November 18, 2019
A decent anthology. It's divided into an older section and a newer section. The book was published in 1981 so even the newer section might seem a little on the old side to the modern reader with authors like Fritz Leiber, Steven King and Henry Slesar. A few of the stories were more like mystery or SF than horror. I liked the Robert Silverberg and Robert Sheckley stories.
November 9, 2009
Some good and some not so good stories.The best are the older ones.Some of the new stories are not scarey but just gross or silly.I don't like a lot of graphic violence which is why I tend to read 'classic' stories.
All over a good book but nothing exceptional.
All over a good book but nothing exceptional.
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August 22, 2008Arbor House Treasury of Horror and the Supernatural by Bill Pronzini (1981)
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July 20, 2011Stephen King introduction plus his story "The Crate"
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