American Supernatural Tales -

Shirley Jackson, H. P. Lovecraft, Ray Bradbury

Penguin Classics

2013

512 páginas

17h 4m

ISBN-13: 9780143122371

American Supernatural Tales is the ultimate collection of weird and frightening American short fiction. As Stephen King will attest, the popularity of the occult in American literature has only grown since the days of Edgar Allan Poe. The book celebrates the richness of this tradition with chilling contributions from some of the nation's brightest literary lights, including Poe himself, H. P. Lovecraft, Shirley Jackson, Ray Bradbury, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and—of course—Stephen King. By turns phantasmagoric, spectral, and demonic, this is a frighteningly good collection of stories.

Resenhas (1)

3 (Bom)

The whole book is intended to be in chronological order, and I loved that as the evolution of language and the world in general can be felt throughout the stories.

I really liked about 55 % of it, some of them are just kind of interesting but not so gripping. All in all it is a good anthology.