This is the ultimate feast of fear by a host of horror writers such as Robert Bloch, Ray Bradbury, Ramsey Campbell, and others. Twenty-four macabre tales include the nerve-twisting novelette The Mist by Stephen King. Previously published in mass market by Bantam.
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Dark Forces is one of the greatest collections of original horror stories published since World War II, and it may prove to be one of the most influential anthologies of its kind, ever. Edited by award-winning editor (and recognized authority) Kirby McCauley, this was the first superstar collection of famous horror writers. It has been often imitated but never surpassed. McCauley was inspired by another landmark collection; his goal was to publish an anthology "with the same scope and dynamism of Harlan's Ellison's Dangerous Visions, but in the supernatural horror field." Dark Forces succeeds on every level, especially in the selection of the 24 contributors, a "Who's Who" from across the spectrum of imaginative literature: Richard Matheson, Dennis Etchison, Ramsey Campbell, Ray Bradbury, Robert Bloch, Joyce Carol Oates, Isaac Bashevis Singer. Oh, yes, also found here is the first appearance of an unforgettable short novel called "The Mist" by an up-and-comer named Stephen King. Dark Forces belongs on the shelf of anyone who desires the very best the field has to offer. --Stanley Wiater
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Format:Mass Market Paperback
Dark Forces is the 'contemporary author' equivalent to the other required classic Horror Story Anthology, Great Tales of Terror and the Supernatural. Editor Kirby McCauley had a frighteningly accurate eye for not only quality horror, but for literary merit as well. Each tale is a nearly perfect example of the richness the Dark Fantasy/Horror genre has to offer. This anthology is required reading for anyone who loves DF/H or is just curious to see how truly great it is capable of being. An essential collection.
By R. Wallace
Format:Mass Market Paperback
Not a bad story in the bunch. In fact, some are classics: e.g., T.E.D. Klein's dark, sinister "Children of the Kingdom," (about some _truly creepy_ monsters in the sewers of New York). Some are funny (well, at least as funny as horror can be), such as one of cartoonist Gahan Wilson's rare short stories -- this particular one about an exterminator doing battle with rats. Even Stephen King weighs in with something not 1,000 pages long: a story about a mist that rolls in. . .and rolls in. . .and won't go away. A fine, fine collection.
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Format:Mass Market Paperback
Wagner consistently did justice to the title "Year's Best Horror Stories", Grant gifted us with his "Shadows" series. But when someone asks me for "the best short horror story collection" every volume of those distinguished anthologies, and numerous other collections I've read in the past 2 decades, are always edged out by McCauley's gem "Dark Forces". Included are stories of monsters in the dark and stories of monsters in the mind. Stories that deliver horror with a sledge hammer and stories that deliver it with a scalpel. The best testimony I can make to this book is to say I've owned 4 copies since it was published - every time I've lent one out, I've never gotten it back. Next person who asks can buy their own copy.
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