Poe’s Children: The New Horror - ed. Peter Straub

Written by ed. Peter Straub
Read by Michael Scherer
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Poe’s Children: The New Horror
Edited by Peter Straub

Encode: mp3 - 64 kbps, Mono, 44.1 kHz
Total # of Tracks: 28
Total Play time: 21:49:12

Anthology #216
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From the incomparable master of horror and suspense comes an electrifying collection of contemporary literary horror, with stories from twenty-five writers representing today’s most talented voices in the genre.
Horror writing is usually associated with formulaic gore, but New Wave horror writers have more in common with the wildly inventive, evocative spookiness of Edgar Allan Poe than with the sometimes-predictable hallmarks of their peers. Showcasing this cutting-edge talent, Poe’s Children now brings the best of the genre’s stories to a wider audience. Featuring tales from such writers as Neil Gaiman and Jonathan Carroll, Poe’s Children is Peter Straub’s tribute to the imaginative power of storytelling. Each previously published story has been selected by Straub to represent what he thinks is the most interesting development in our literature during the last two decades.
Selections range from the early Stephen King psychological thriller “The Ballad of the Flexible Bullet,” in which an editor confronts an author’s belief that his typewriter is inhabited by supernatural creatures, to “The Man on the Ceiling,” Melanie and Steve Rasnic Tem’s award-winning surreal tale of night terrors, woven with daylight fears that haunt a family. Other selections include National Book Award finalist Dan Chaon’s “The Bees”; Peter Straub’s “Little Red’s Tango,” the legend of a music aficionado whose past is as mysterious as the ghostly visitors to his Manhattan apartment; Elizabeth Hand’s visionary and shocking “Cleopatra Brimstone”; Thomas Ligotti’s brilliant, mind-stretching “Notes on the Writing of Horror: A Story”; and “Body,” Brian Evenson’s disturbing twist on correctional facilities.
Crossing boundaries and packed with imaginative chills, Poe’s Children bears all the telltale signs of fearless, addictive fiction.

Stories in this collection:

01) Introduction by Peter Straub
02) The Bees by Dan Chaon
03) Cleopatra Brimstone by Elizabeth Hand
04) The Man on the Ceiling by Steve Rasnic Tem & Melanie Tem
05) The Great God Pan by M. John Harrison
06) The Voice of the Beach by Ramsey Campbell
07) The Body by Brian Evenson
08) Louise’s Ghost by Kelly Link
09) The Sadness of Detail by Jonathan Carroll
10) Leda by M. Rickert
11) In Praise of Folly by Thomas Tessier
12) Plot Twist by David J. Schow
13) The Two Sams by Glen Hirshberg
14) Notes on the Writing of Horror: A Story by Thomas Ligotti
15) Unearthed by Benjamin Percy
16) Gardener of Heart by Bradford Morrow
17) Little Red’s Tango by Peter Straub
18) The Ballad of the Flexible Bullet by Stephen King
19) 20th Century Ghost by Joe Hill
20) The Green Glass Sea by Ellen Klages
21) The Kiss by Tia V. Travis
22) Black Dust by Graham Joyce
23) October in the Chair by Neil Gaiman
24) Missolonghi 1824 by John Crowley
25) Insect Dreams by Rosalind Palermo Stevenson