Inferno: New Tales of Terror and the Supernatural
Book Information
- Publisher
- Tor Books
- Published
- 2007-12-10
- Pages
- 381 pages
- Language
- 英語
- Size
- 17.09 x 3.18 x 23.09 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9780765315588
- ISBN-10
- 0765315580
- Price
- 9140 JPY
- Category
- 洋書/Literature & Fiction/Anthologies & Literary Collections/General
As stated in her introduction to Inferno , Ellen Datlow asked her favorite authors for stories that would provide the reader with a frisson of shock, or a moment of dread so powerful it might cause the reader outright physical discomfort; or a sensation of fear so palpable that the reader feels compelled to turn on the bright lights and play music or seek the company of others to dispel the fear. Mission accomplished. Datlow has produced a collection filled with some of the most powerful voices in the field: Pat Cadigan, Terry Dowling, Jeffrey Ford, Christopher Fowler, Glen Hirshberg, K. W. Jeter, Joyce Carol Oates, and Lucius Shepard, to name a few. Each author approaches fear in a different way, but all of the stories characters toil within their own hell. An aptly titled anthology, Inferno will scare the pants off readers and further secure Ellen Datlows standing as a preeminent editor of modern horror.
Reviews
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Chilling
Inferno is the kind of anthology a reader waits and hopes for. It's filled with disturbing tales from some of the best horror/dark fantasy authors, and these tales leave chilling, lasting impressions. The deepest impression on me came from P.D. Cacek's "The Keeper." Simple, heartbreaking, and powerful. Ellen Datlow has compiled another incredible collection here. She's the best editor in the field. Highly recommended!
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A fiery collection of horror!
I had been an admirer of ghost stories and the "quiet horror" (although I never used to know it under that name) ever since I started reading fiction. Violence, especially if that is described to be taking place in the commonest possible circumstances (e.g. within the four walls of a drab room occupied by a family not that different from mine), or which involves loss & pain to people who can be actually felt for in everyday life (e.g. someone's children or wife getting lost or murdered or tortured) is not preferred by me while trying to acquire that pleasing chill by going through printed words. Perhaps that is not a very literate thing to do, esp. since I have been reading horror for many-many years now. But this collection, often dealing with exactly those issues which I detest, succeeded in moving me and compelling me to read every one of them, often against my own wishes. After reading these stories, I was forced to conclude that the editor has been supremely successful in her objective: giving the readers an idea about how it really might feel while burning in the fires of own hell. I had gone through it during the reading! The contents are: 1) Riding Bitch by K.W. Jeter 2) Misadventure by Stephen Gallagher 3) The Forest by Laird Barron 4) The Monsters of Heaven by Nathan Ballingrud 5) Inelastic Collisions by Elizabeth Bear 6) The Uninvited by Christopher Fowler 7) 13 o'clock by Mike O'Driscoll 8) Lives by John Grant 9) Ghorla by Mark Samuels 10) Face by Joyce Carol Oates 12) An Apiary of White Bees by Lee Thomas 13) The Keeper by P.D. Cacek 14) Bethany's Wood by Paul Finch 15) The Ease With Which We Freed the Beast by Lucius Shepard 16) Hushabye by Simon Bestwick 17) Perhaps the Last by Conrad Williams 18) Stilled Life by Pat Cadigan 19) The Janus Tree by Glen Hirshberg 20) The Bedroom Light by Jeffrey Ford 21) The Suits at Auderlene by Terry Dowling. Many of these stories (among which, I would like to draw your attention towards those by Glen Hirshbirg, Lucius Shepard, Paul Finch, Laird Barron and Stephen Gallagher) have later got reprinted into different thematic anthologies and have found their individual (eminently justified) accolades. But I am, nevertheless, determined to knock-off a star from the rating, because that is the least that I can do after burning myself in INFERNO!
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a very nice change from some of the garbage called literature that ...
Decent, a very nice change from some of the garbage called literature that is being published lately.