Read Author’s Favorite Short Horror Stories

My Favorite Horror Story

Editors: Baker, Mike and Martin H. Greenberg
Format: Hardcover
Type: Anthology
Page Count: 384pp.
Pub. Date: November 25, 2007
Publisher: IBooks, Inc.

Who do today’s top horror authors read-and why?

This was the question posed to some of the most influential authors in the field today. This book is their answer.

Here are fifteen of the most memorable stories in the genre, each one personally selected by a well-known writer, and each prefaced by that writer’s explanation of his or her choice.

Here’s your choice to enjoy familiar favorites, and perhaps to discover some wonderful treasures. In each case, you’ll have the opportunity to see the story from the perspective of a master of the field.

Table of Contents:

• Sweets to the Sweet by Robert Bloch (Chosen by Stephen King)
• The Father-Thing by Philip K. Dick (Chosen by Ed Gorman)
• The Distributor by Richard Matheson (Chosen by F. Paul Wilson)
• A Warning to the Curious by M.R. James (Chosen by Ramsey Campbell)
• Opening the Door by Arthur Machen (Chosen by Peter Atkins)
• The Colour Out of Space by H.P. Lovecraft (Chosen by Richard Laymon)
• The Inner Room by Robert Aickman (Chosen by Peter Straub)
• Young Goodman Brown by Nathaniel Hawthorne (Chosen by Rick Hautala)
• The Rats in the Walls by H.P. Lovecraft (Chosen by Michael Slade)
• The Dog Park by Dennis Etchison (Chosen by Richard Christian Matheson)
• The Animal Fair by Robert Bloch (Chosen by Joe R. Lansdale)
• The Pattern by Ramsey Campbell (Chosen by Poppy Z. Brite)
• The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe (Chosen by Joyce Carol Oates)
• An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge by Ambrose Bierce (Chosen by Dennis Etchison)
• The Human Chair by Edogawa Rampo (Chosen by Harlan Ellison)