Coffins, Otto Penzler
Coffins, Otto Penzler
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Coffins
The Vampire Archives, Volume 3

Author: Otto Penzler

Narrator: Various

Unabridged: 13 hr 52 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 11/23/2010

Categories: Fiction, Horror


Synopsis

A chill inducing and masterful collection of vampire tales, culled from the dark recesses of the nefarious and world renowned Vampires Archives.
 
Coffins, the third volume in the mass market series, contains some of the best of the best of vampire fiction. Including Harlan Ellison, Robert Bloch, Edgar Allan Poe, and F. Paul Wilson, it takes its readers deep inside the crypts of the living dead, in all their supernatural splendor.
 
Featuring:
·        Heart Pounding Shrieks
·        Blood Soaked Moonlit Hunts
·        High Stakes Adventure
·        Evil Assignations

About Otto Penzler

Otto Penzler, proprietor of The Mysterious Bookshop in New York City, founded The Mysterious Press in 1975, now an imprint at Grove/Atlantic, and publishes classic crime fiction through MysteriousPress.com. Penzler has won two Edgar Awards, MWA's Ellery Queen Award, and the Raven Award. He has been given Lifetime Achievement awards by Noircon and the Strand Magazine.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Maxi on May 08, 2013

I actually think this books deserves 5 stars. But why on earth did I only put 4? It was because of that goddamned introduction. I love you, Mr. Penzler, but when you noted that Stephanie Meyer as a legitimate vampire author, I wanted to burn the damned book. I'm glad, however, that the selection of......more

Goodreads review by Jo on June 01, 2012

Eh. Some really badly written short stories featuring vampires, with maybe three pretty good ones and two excellent one--Duty by Ed Gorman and Midnight Mass by F. Paul Wilson. Most of the stories felt like they were phoned in. Time to give vampires a rest, hmm?......more

Goodreads review by Melanie on October 16, 2016

Great collection! I skipped a couple of stories though. I must say that the last story was a great closer for the volume.......more

Goodreads review by Christian James on December 28, 2015

A collection of adult bedtime stories. haha......more

Goodreads review by Metagion on October 14, 2011

Great choice of stories here, but some I've read before (like "The Horla", for instance and "Ligeia" for another) but other than that some true gems. Browse through a copy if you can :)......more