- Paperback: 296 pages
- Publisher: Lowell House (October 1999)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0737302984
- ISBN-13: 978-0737302981
- Product Dimensions: 22.6 x 15 x 2.3 cm
- Shipping Weight: 431 g
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Horror is the literature of humanity's nightmares. It examines our deepest fears, ancient and modern. And, as Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1818) demonstrated two centuries ago, the creations of science and rationality can be as terrifying as any primal dread. In TechnoHorror, editor James Frenkel has collected 16 strong, scary stories of modern and future terrors from 16 masters of horror and science fiction, including Robert Bloch, Ray Bradbury, Pat Cadigan, Greg Egan, Harlan Ellison, Stephen King, Damon Knight, Frederik Pohl, John Shirley, and Michael Swanwick. The stories are reprints, some widely anthologized, many almost unknown. All deserve a wide audience.
In Harlan Ellison's classic "Pretty Maggie Moneyeyes," a haunted slot machine lures a busted gambler into the ultimate sucker's bet in the Las Vegas version of hell on earth. Thomas M. Disch's "Descending" brilliantly transforms the simple act of using a department-store escalator into an experience of nightmarish terror. Two very different but equally powerful stories, Greg Egan's "Scatter My Ashes" and Pat Cadigan's "Patterns," explore the complex and disturbing interrelationship between violence and the media. In "This Life and Later Ones," George Zebrowski exposes the horrors we may experience if we transcend death through computer download of our consciousness. And John Shirley's "Screens" takes the greenhouse effect and toxic pollution to a dreadful extreme. --Cynthia Ward
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Mixing Man and Machine with supernatural terrors, Oct 23 2003
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This review is from: Technohorror: Inventions in Terror (Paperback)
Great job by James Frenkel in compiling this amazing collection of horror shorts. The best stories from the best writers, this is a must have for you own collection; and is also better and more obtainable than Frenkel's previous collection Bangs & Whimpers.Pretty Maggie Moneyeyes by Harlan Ellison - (one of my favorites) Loneliness and greed are a bad combination around a possessed slot machine.
Thinkertoy by John Brunner - Are your children angry at you for anything you have done?
Scatter My Ashes by Greg Egan - How far will your obsession take you?
Descending by Thomas Disch - Could you possibly become lost in a stairwell that never ends?
That Hellbound Train by Robert Bloch - Sooner or later it comes for you.
Survival Kit by Frederik Pohl - Everything you need in one odd suitcase.
This Life and Later Ones by George Zebrowski - What gets left behind when man interferes?
The Veldt by Ray Bradbury - Spare the rod, spoil the child.
Little Man by Ramsey Cambell - A new kind of arcade game.
Screens by John Shirley - What would it take to break free of brainwashing?
Mammy Morgan Played the Organ; Her Daddy Beat the Drum by Michael Flynn - If you discovered ghosts had souls, would it make you happy or sad?
Masks by Damon Knight - If your mind was encased in a machine, would it begin to think like one?
But Smile No More by Stephen Dedman - A tale of government testing.
The Dead by Michael Swanwick - How many uses can there be for re-animated corpses?
Patterns by Pat Cadigan - Could your odd fantasy come true with a TV and your own finger?
The Mangler by Stephen King - Written back when King was still master of the word and not subject to the verbal diarrhea he spews out these days. A commercial ironing machine becomes possessed and bloodthirsty.
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