John Collier
Birth date: May 03, 1901
Died: April 06, 1980
John Collier's Books
Liked:"Non-Disclosure Agreement" - Scott Westerfeld"Metaphysics" - Elizabeth M. Glover"That Hellbound Train" - Robert Bloch"We Can Get Them For You Wholesale" - Neil Gaiman"...With By Good Intentions" - Carrie RichersonBlah:"The Price" - Neil Gaiman"A Reversal of Fortune" - Holly Black"Like Riding a...
wonderfully spooky older horror and supernatural tales by both familiar and less familiar authors. highly recommended.
Although this book is a sequel to STONES IN THE RIVER by Ursula Hegi, it could be read as a stand-alone. The story is told from the perspective of a dwarf who becomes the town's librarian in wartime Germany. The Nazis are everywhere. Death is everywhere. The two books remind me of "The Book Thief". ...
I read this because I'd loved Stones From the River. Hegi's writing still shines in this book, but I didn't care as much for the vignette form. It does take place in the same town as SFTR and Trudi makes a cameo appearance, but I didn't like her so well in these stories. She's kind of bossy and ill-...
If you never read another horror anthology, if you even hate horror, you should read this one anthology just to make sure you round out your literary background. The one essential classic anthology that has NEVER been bettered since it was first published. Cannot really be compared to anything els...