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Horror Classics is the tenth volume, and the first multi-author anthology in the Graphic Classics series. It features "Some Words with a Mummy", a comedy by Edgar Allan Poe, W.W. Jacobs' famed "The Monkey's Paw", and one of H.P. Lovecraft's best, "The Thing on the Doorstep", adapted by Michael Manning. Also "Professor Jonkin's Cannibal Plant" by Onsmith Jeremi and Clark Ashton Smith's "The Beast of Averoigne", adapted by Rod Lott and Richard Jenkins. Plus seven more horrifying stories and features. ... Read more

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black and white
not a very good comic. All in black and white and not much diolog. might as well read the book.

Could Have Been Better
Well, I read Eureka Productions' Graphic Classics: Edgar Allan Poe (Graphic Classics (Graphic Novels)), and I have to admit it - I was consequently a little disappointed in this sequel volume. While the stories in this volume were uniformly interesting (more or less), I didn't feel the artwork was up to same level as the Poe volume. (A notable exception: Michael Manning's excellent adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft's "The Thing On The Doorstep". I'll definitely keep an eye out for his (Manning's) work in the future.) Probably worth a look if you're a fan of any of the original writers, but I wouldn't go out of my way to read this one unless you're a complete horror comics nut.

Great stories and wonderful illustration work
This fun little graphic novel is a collection of some twelve short stories and poems that were all written by the greats of modern horror literature - H.P. Lovecraft, Edgar Allan Poe, Saki (pen name of Hector Hugh Munro), Jack London, and others. Just as heterogeneous as the authors are the illustrators. Each of the stories was illustrated by a different artist, who drew the story as he or she saw fit, each different from the others and each excellent.

Overall, I thought that this was an excellent book, with great stories and wonderful illustration work. I think that my favorites were Lovecraft's The Thing on the Doorstep, W.W. Jacobs' Monkey's Paw, and Clark Ashton Smith's The Beast of Averoigne, with Bret Harte's Selina Sedilia being too funny to miss. Yep, this is a great book, one that my fourteen-year-old daughter and I both enjoyed and both highly recommend!

Mummies, Murder and Monkey's Paws
Horror has done well for the modern incarnation of the Graphic Classics, whose series has seen such luminaries as Bram Stoker, Edgar Allan Poe and HP Lovecraft brought to life by some extremely talented cartoonists. Whether it is the short-story nature, or the ready-made visually splendid imagery, there is something in the classic horror tales thats makes them well suited to the Graphic Classics treatment.Here, in the 10th volume, they have wisely continued this tradition, and assembled an anthology of classic horror stories to chill and delight.

"Horror Classics" brings together 12 authors, some of which, like HP Lovecraft , Jack London and Ambrose Bierce, have been previously honored with their own Graphic Classics collections. Others, like Clark Ashton Smith and Honre de Balzac, appear for the first time.All of the stories are well-chosen, and the artists's styles are well-matched.

This collection contains:

"The Mummy" - Ambrose Bierce - A short and witty poem, with a sharp illustration to match it.

"The Thing at the Doorstep" - HP Lovecraft - A brilliant take on one of my favorite Lovecraft stories.The artist manages to capture the "Innsmouth look" perfectly, and uses the author's original text combined with illustrations to great effect."glub..glub...glub-glub..."You know what I mean.

"Some Words with a Mummy" - Edgar Allan Poe - A clever and light adaptation of a resurrected mummy bantering with a few scientists over which has the superior society.

"In a Far Off World" - Oliver Schreiner - An excellent, melancholy tale.One I have never read before, but am glad to be introduced to.

"The Thing at Ghent" - Honre de Balzac - Entirely dialog free, I am at a bit of a loss as to the actual story.Unfortunately, it is not such a familiar tale as to be able to divine the story from illustrations alone.The only disappointment in the lot.

"The Monkey's Paw" - WW Jacobs - Any fan of "The Simpsons" will recognize this one, although they may have never seen the original.The artist JW Pierard maintains the full weight of the original cautionary tale.Be careful what you wish for, and don't mess with unfamiliar magiks.

"The Open Window" - Saki - Another familiar tale, one that I have heard told but never knew the origin of.A clever almost-ghost story, well adapted in a simple Victorian style.

"A Day Dream" - Fitz-James O-Brien - Cartoonish musings on murder, and the high class going slumming in the Five Points.

"Keesh Son of Keesh" - Jack London - A dark and powerful tale of barbarian culture and blood-rights amongst the Native American tribes.Ryan Inzana's heavy woodblock illustrations perfectly compliment this heavy story.

"Professor Jonkin's Cannibal Plant" - Howard R. Garis - "Feed me, Seymour!" Another comedic adaptation, featuring a foolish professor and his frightening child.

"The Beast of Averoigne" - Clark Ashton Smith - A contemporary of Lovecraft, this tale of a wild comet, a haunted abbey, and the Ring of Eibon, is adapted with appropriate style.

"Selina Sedilia" - Bret Harte - A humorous look at love ever-after between two base villains.And of course, there is only one way to achieve love "ever-after."

Each story is skillfully rendered into comic book format
Horror Classics is a graphic novel anthology that brings to vivid life those great tales of terror by Edgar Allan Poe, H. P. Lovecraft, Clark Ashton Smith, and others. Each individual story is skillfully rendered into comic book format by a different artist, who uses black-and-white imagery to perfectly capture moments of terror. An engrossing introduction to the classics of horror for those new to the literary experience, and an exciting fresh take on great stories for those who have read them a hundred times before.
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Sadistic Humor
This is a book that you will love or hate. Saki writes with a sadistic flair that both enthralls you and horrifies you. This book is not one story but many written about the so called rich upper class who went around England during the time Saki lived. Saki seems to take pleasure in putting the prideful and boastful rich in their places and making them squirm a little. There are other stories that show Saki's dark and sinister side. As an example I will give you a short run down of Srendi Vashtar. A sickly boy is living with his cousin and she is extremely cruel to him. She takes pleasure in depriving him of even the slightest happiness. The boy hides the few things that bring him happiness away from his cousin. These things consist of a chicken and a ferret in a cage. The boy hates his cousin so much that he even rejects her religion and makes up one of his own basing it on the ferret. He prays to the ferret for deliverance from his cousin, which he finally gets. I will not ruin the ending for you, but I will tell you it has a bloody and shocking ending. Saki also has stories with a twisted humor that is actually funny and pleasing to read. Overall I enjoyed this book and recommend it

How Do You Look At Life?
This was a very good book.The stories were all eye catching and made your mind wonder.At first when I started to read the book, was was a little lost. The stories all have some kind ofcatch to them, and it takes a little while to figure out what Saki is trying to say.The way he embraces the plots of these stories makes you wonder where he is coming from.Personally, I started to wonder if Saki was trying to tell some of his life within these stories.To me, some of the stories resemble society and how people act towards each other.Saki makes fun of society and that really interested me.I liked how he used metaphores on the stories.These excititng twists made the stories even more enjoyable to read.Some of the stories made fun of the characters or at least one character, but it was not in a very subtle was, he made it kind of a secret.THe unique thing about these stories was the way that Saki put them together.He really made you look deeper into the stories to get the real meaning of them.I would definately suggest this book if you enjoy stories with twists and deep meanings.

Laughing at Society
This is a very good book. I enjoyed the way that Saki uses animals to deface the way he feels about society. In many cases the animals use trickery to fool the people around them. In my opinion this story is a parallel to Saki's life. The animals represent how he felt and what he wanted to do in some instances, but society would not allow it. From a ferret god to a talking cat this book will make you think of how you feel about society and what you could do if society allowed it. The stories are exciting and I would recommend this book to anyone who is frustrated with the way society is.

Wonderful Satire
I enjoyed the majority of Saki's stories. My favorite tales were The Unrest Cure and The She-Wolf.I laughed and laughed at the jokes played by the character, Clovis.His characterization in such a limited number of words in each story was brilliant.However, I did not like The Easter Egg in the least.This is probably because it involved the injury of an innocent child.Sredni Vashtar also involved a child, but Saki narrated that story from the child's perspective in such a manner as to make you feel as the boy did.I almost rejoiced in the conclusion. Saki has an incredibly clever way of describing the outrageous, snobbish acts of his main characters.He fills his stories with such a subtle humor that I missed it at first glance.The tales reminded me of things I would never do in reality but have often wanted to do when frustrated with some government agency.He employs a child-like imagination of a fairy-tale world not all that different from reality.However, his world has a Edgar Allan Poe feel to it, and the simpleton or evil spinster always gets his or her just desserts in the end.He crafts these unwitting or evil creatures so well that I cheered or laughed at the final situations he came up with for them. Saki accentuates the stories by using a large vocabulary with only a few well placed, unfamiliar words, making himself as snobbish as his characters.When I took the time to learn the definition of these words, I was amazed at the clever symbolism he employed.He seemed to hide many secret messages and made that which was socially taboo into something resembling acceptable.As a whole, these stories are imaginative satires of the Edwardian society.

Saki & the impoliteness of manners!
For those of you who love animals with strong, individual personalities and characters who are seen as either eccentric or plain crazy, depending on their socio/economic heritage, this is the collection of short storiesfor you.

From Sredni Vashtar, "the great ferret", to naughtyNicholas in The Lumber Room, each of the well developed short story textsis a minimalists masterpiece, and in each of the individual short storiesthe reader is given more than an ample serving of Saki's skill ofsimultaneous character and plot development that invariably lead toabsurdly histerical, yet wildly believable conclusions.

The onlynegative critisism that I would make of this group of short stories isthat; although most of the stories are incredibly entertaining and some ofthem either leave you laughing so hard, or weeping so pathetically, thatyou are forced to stop reading for a few moments; the formaltion ofsomewhat stock English characters Saki employs to construct the majority ofthe stories, combined with the kinds of social and linguistic ambiguitiesthat he exploits to obtain his goals, do become somewhat predictable aftera while. ... Read more

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Sensitive high-school girl Alice just moved to Tokyo only ten days ago, and is already plagued with worries. Her unconscious world is wonderful?dreams of her living on the moon! But reality is far from ideal since grade-school-aged bratty Rin, a holy terror, becomes Alice's baby-sitting job! Meanwhile, Alice meets a pair of boys at school with an oddly close relationship. It's only later that she discovers their relationship is based on their dreams of the same nature. ... Read more

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A collection of surprising and spellbinding tales includes ""The Interlopers,"" in which two friends are trapped beneath a fallen tree; ""The Open Window,"" about a woman who waits for a trio of ghosts; and ""Tobermory,"" a story about an unusual cat. ... Read more

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Timeless wisdom
"Words that enlighten the soul are more precious than jewels. -- Aug 16."If that is true, than this slim volume is more precious than a bank vault full of jewels.This book consists of 366 aphorisms, one for each day of the calendar year, by Hazrat Inayat Khan (1882-1927), the great Sufi mystic and talented communicator of timeless values.Some of these aphorisms are more proverb-like ("Those who throw dust at the sun, the dust falls in their own eyes. -- March 4"), some re-vision traditional religious values ("The lover of nature is the true worshipper of God. -- Aug. 13"), and some are fodder for deep reflection over time ("Mysticism to the mystic is both science and religion. -- Oct. 17").Overall, this is a short book to read all the way through, and it is a book that yields deeper and deeper on repeated readings.I cannot recommend it enough.The volumes with just "A Book of Saki" by itself are now out of print, but the entire text is contained inThe Complete Sayings by Hazrat Inayat Khan. ... Read more

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This is a selection of readings from "Saki", the pseudonym for Hector Hugh Munro, who was known for his eccentric wit and his short stories, both humorous and macabre. The readers are Dirk Bogarde, Tim Pigott-Smith, Zoe Wanamaker and Barbara Leigh Hunt. ... Read more

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This book is part of the Our Name in History series, a collection of fascinating facts and statistics, alongside short historical commentary, created to tell the story of previous generations who have shared this name.The information in this book is a compendium of research and data pulled from census records, military records, ships' logs, immigrant and port records, as well as other reputable sources. Topics include:

• Name Meaning and Origin
• Immigration Patterns and Census Detail
• Family Lifestyles
• Military Service History
• Comprehensive Source Guide, for future research

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Just Don't Get the Adoration
I mean, "The Open Window," was a solid story, even with such a predictable plot, but the others in this volume just didn't do it for me.Rather outdated, old chap.I just don't get the adoration. ... Read more