books by Al Sarrantonio     books:       Toybox15 reviews Al Sarrantonio Cemetery Dance Publications, 2000 Wonderfully eerie I have been reading horror fiction for most of my life. I am a rabid Lovecraft fan, and have read hundreds of novels and short story collections. I consider myself discriminating, only reading the best in horror fiction -- the stuff that really scares the hell out of you and makes you fear the dark. That being said, this is now my favorite short horror story collection. The unsettling feeling ...             Orangefield3 reviews Al Sarrantonio Cemetery Dance Publications, 2002 Don't Miss This Halloween Horror Novel This limited edition novel from Cemetery Dance publications is a great piece of fiction. Sarrantonio, who wrote the Halloween novel "October" some years back and edited perhaps the greatest collection of short stories by popular genre authors "999", returns with a powerful short novel about a force of evil that exists in the town of "Orangefield". The characters are all well rounded despite ...             Skeletons3 reviews Al Sarrantonio Bantam, 1992 End of the world excellence! Sarrantonio delivers with this refreshing take on a familiar subject. Horrific and funny. His handling of historical figures and contempory celebs is not to be missed.             Journey: Five Worlds Saga #2 (Five Worlds)1 review Al Sarrantonio Roc, 1997 Among the best So many authors have forgotten how to hook and hold a reader without going off onto uninteresting tangents. Al Sarrantonio is not one of them. Despite so many characters in this book, each has a unique personality without volumes of side-stories to help "build character" over and over again. And every character is fascinating. His writing flows well and quickly, and his imagery is admirable. ...             Hornets and Others2 reviews Al Sarrantonio Cemetery Dance Publications, 2005 Great Collection of Entertaining Stories Contains the following stories: Preface 1) The Ropy Thing - Explores the possible dangers of a child's imagination making things become real. 2) The Only - Written for the Greystone Bay anthology, a fast paced and tightly written story of a young man who returns to his home town to fulfill his strange destiny. 3) The Beat - Suspenseful story about death and dancing. 4) In the Corn - Brief ...             TOYBOX - SIGNED LETTERED EDITION1 review Al Sarrantonio Cemetery Dance Publications, 1999 Halloween Horror As autumn approaches and the leaves turn color, as if the entire countryside has been set afire, take a trip to Orangefield where the biggest and brightest pumpkins grow turning the landscape a deep orange. Amidst the falling leaves and bonfire smoke strange things are happening ... Al Sarrantonio is famous for his Orangefield series which begins with ORANGEFIELD and continues with ALL ...             Flights: Extreme Visions Fantasy, Vol II6 reviews Roc, 2006 Powerhouse Anthology "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" by Robert Silverberg - The twist is that the sorcerer is actually a woman, and the apprentice is a young man who is instantly smitten by her. However, she treats him coldly...most of the time. "Perpetua" by Kit Reed - Strange story in which a father's love is carried too far. "The Edges of Never-Haven" by Catherine Asaro - In the town of Never-Haven, people live ...             The Pumpkin Boy1 review Al Sarrantonio Endeavor Press, 2005 Great Halloween Story Detective Bill Grant returns in this short but superb addition to Sarrantonio's Orangefield series. From the dust jacket: "One cold night near Halloween, five-year-old Jody Wendt sees something amazing: a boy made of metal with the head of a pumpkin outlined against the rising moon. "Overcome with curiosity, Jody follows the Pumpkin Boy into the woods, and abruptly disappears from the ...             The National Lampoon Treasury of Humor1 review Simon & Schuster (Paper), 1991 From the people who brought you...Hate! If you grew up in the '70s, you are a bad person. It's not your fault. Spending all those nights at the disco watching Gerry Ford and Karen Carpenter dance the night away with the cast of "Hello, Larry", that's going to leave a mark. But nothing cut quite so deep as the National Lampoon. This bound edition of material from the first several years(along with some previously unpublished ...             Moonbane2 reviews Al Sarrantonio Spectra, 1989 Apocalyptic horror What I really like about Al Sarrantonio is his uncanny ability to marry some fantastic science-fiction with gut wrenching horror to produce a story unlike no other. This tale is of the abomination of man kind as it is pushed a step down on the food chain and its feeble struggle against a superhuman force. Moonbane is about Jason Blake, a poet, who witnessed a meteor shower with his son, so ...             100 Hair-Raising Little Horror Stories5 reviews Fall River Press, 1993 Masters of the Trickiest Form of Literature As Frederick Douglass once said, "I confess I love littleness in all things." These ironic and timeless tales are less horrifying than startling for their perfection and originality. There appear to be no prescriptions or standards for the short short horror. Each victim, each critical moment in time and place is unique and unlike its companions in the collection. And why not, when some of the ...             Bruce Coville's Book of Spine Tinglers: Tales to Make You Shiver3 reviews Scholastic, 1996 An amazing compilation I recently dug this book out on a whim, after having not so much as looked at it for perhaps five years or more, and was genuinely surprised and delighted. The stories are a lot more mature than I would have expected for a book marketed to children. I say this not because they are in any way inappropriate, but because they deal with somewhat darker themes than most believe children can ...             Halloweenland6 reviews Al Sarrantonio Leisure Books, 2007 A Fantastic Halloween Season Read This guy is probably the closest thing to a new age Ray Bradbury, especially when it comes to describing the Halloween season. You can basically smell and taste the scenery he describes. A great and quick fun read.             999 8C FL18 reviews Al Sarrantonio William Morrow, 1999 A garden of pleasure This book is a collection of stories, short or long, in the vast field of horror and fantastique literature. The panorama is nearly complete and dedicated to the devil by its own title. I particularly like the final short novel « Elsewhere » by William Peter Blatty. The ending is totally surprising and very well interwoven into the whole story, with a final twist in the very last paragraph, so ...             999: Twenty-nine Original Tales of Horror and Suspense11 reviews Al Sarrantonio Harper Paperbacks, 2001 Newest Favorite Anthology The horror genre is by far my favorite. The bookshelves in my home are overflowing with horror, thriller and suspense novels. And anthologies. This one has easily taken the place of my favorite horror anthology. There's something here for everyone: vampires, zombies, haunted houses, ghosts, time rifts and perhaps the scariest of all - the evil humans are capable of. There's only a few ...             Queen of Mars1 review Al Sarrantonio Ace, 2006 Totally Cool I really loved this book. I was surprised because I don't usually read this sort of book. I recommend this one.             TOYBOX - SIGNED LIMITED EDITION1 review Al Sarrantonio Cemetery Dance Publications, 1999 Toybox As autumn approaches and the leaves turn color, as if the entire countryside has been set afire, take a trip to Orangefield where the biggest and brightest pumpkins grow turning the landscape a deep orange. Amidst the falling leaves and bonfire smoke strange things are happening ... Al Sarrantonio is famous for his Orangefield series which begins with ORANGEFIELD and continues with ALL ...             Hallows Eve11 reviews Al Sarrantonio Leisure Books, 2004 A fun, thrilling read This book to me was a fast and fun read. The way this guy describes The halloween season is fantastic. It's a also a great story and cool concept. A must for fans who want a good read for Halloween.             Redshift: Extreme Visions of Speculative Fiction14 reviews Roc Hardcover, 2001 Excellent Collection of Sci-Fi Great stuff, a little on the fantasy side at times. The title of the book "Redshift" apparently refers to the measure of planets and the solar systems moving apart from each other, and though I didn't see anything in the collection on that particular subject really, it's a great collection.             Exile (Five Worlds)1 review Al Sarrantonio Roc, 1996 Believable good and bad guys in a futuristic setting The problem with a lot of science fiction these days is that they spend a lot of time inventing aliens to be the bad guys and monsters. Al gets back to basics, we are the monsters and you need only to read the history of the last 75 years to see the truth in that. He invents a wild future science to prosecute his war but I'm sure that the scientists at Los Alamos in 1945 thought that ...              search for books coville, edition, extreme, fantasy, fiction, flights, hair-raising, halloweenland, hallows, hornets, journey, lampoon, lettered, limited, moonbane, national, orangefield, original, pumpkin, raising, redshift, skeletons, speculative, stories, suspense, tinglers, treasury, twenty, twenty-nine, visions books:    Kindle - Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device This is the future of book reading. I have used it and love it! randomly chosen electronics: Speck PixelSkin for iPod touch 2G (Purple) we recommend Among the best leave a comment home  impressum - about us