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It has been almost 25 years since this book was published. A new generation of horror authors has risen. Not to mention the horror authors who didn't participate in the original volume. It would be nice to see another volume published. I would like to hear what story meant a lot to the current...

I agree. One of the best horror fables that I have ever read. I originally got it through the library, but I enjoyed it so much that I had to buy a copy just to have it around.

That sounds like a good one. I only have two books by Buzzati: The Tartar Steppe and The Siren (a collection of short stories). I have read a couple more in anthologies. I found "Just The Very Thing They Wanted" in European Tales of Terror. His out of print collections Restless Nights and...

Here are a few other great horror stories that I have read recently: Just TheVery Thing They Wanted by Dino Buzzati The Phantom Slayer by Fritz Leiber Shallaballah by Mark Samuels At the Bureau by Steve Rasnic Tem Ice Age of Dreams by Michael Cisco

I will also add "The Desolate Presence" by Thomas Owen. TL mentioned this author in one of his interviews many years ago. I just unearthed the book while looking through some boxes. I have only read about half a dozen of his stories, and this is the only one I really care for, but it is...

I agree, it is quite a horror story. (I can think of a few other names to call it) But always keep in mind, it is only fiction.

Interesting back story on "The Hole of the Pit", Karnos, I hadn't heard it before. I still haven't gotten around to reading it yet. I do know that it was rediscovered in the anthology Uncanny Banquet edited by Campbell. Who knows, maybe he just added the monster, if it sits oddly on the page. I...

In the late 1950s Roald Dahl was hired to recommend twenty-four ghost stories that could be adapted for television. Mr. Dahl has stated that he read over seven hundred stories to come up with the required twenty-four. (M.R. James is conspicuously absent). The series got only as far as the pilot...

In the August 1983 edition of The Twilight Zone Magazine, editor T.E.D. Klein put together an article on book and story recommendations with the help of some notable contributors. To type the entire list, including commentaries, would be a bit much, so I just listed some that sounded...

A few more that I really like: "The Mysterious Stranger" by Mark Twain. Twain would not allow this story to be published in his lifetime because he knew it would offend a great many people. This was his last novella. Ligotti has mentioned Twain's book Letters From the Earth in an interview. The...

I just found out that Aetherwing also recommended Kuttner's "Graveyard Rats" on the Cthulhu Mythos Story thread some time ago. Thanks, Aether, I must have missed it. That is probably why I bought The Book of Iod a while back. Unfortunately, neither Rats nor "Return of the Witch" is in that...

I remember reading and liking both "The Yellow Sign" by Robert W.Chambers and "The Upper Berth" by F. Marion Crawford. I'll have to track down "The Dead Smile." I know Necronomicon Press published a chapbook of this one in their Lovecraft's Favorite Stories series. I have had a copy of Richard...

I have an entertaining book that is called My Favorite Horror Story. It was published by DAW Books in 2000. The editors asked fifteen contemporary horror authors what their favorite horror story was. The story was then prefaced by a brief reason why the author liked the story.This book is...