{"id":6867,"date":"2011-11-11T12:48:01","date_gmt":"2011-11-11T20:48:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/?p=6867"},"modified":"2011-11-11T12:48:01","modified_gmt":"2011-11-11T20:48:01","slug":"dark-delicacies-ii-fear-more-original-tales-of-terror-and-the-macabre-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/2011\/11\/11\/dark-delicacies-ii-fear-more-original-tales-of-terror-and-the-macabre-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Dark Delicacies II: Fear; More Original Tales of Terror and the Macabre (review)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content_div-6867\">\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Title:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Dark-Delicacies-II-Original-Greatest\/dp\/0786719516%3FSubscriptionId%3DAKIAJ575TFCTD2TUN5TQ%26tag%3Dalnathnuse-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3D0786719516\">Dark Delicacies II: Fear; More Original Tales of Terror and the Macabre by the World&#8217;s Greatest Horror Writers<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Author:<\/strong> <a id=\"contributorNameTriggerB003VN1HD2\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Del-Howison\/e\/B003VN1HD2\/ref=ntt_athr_dp_pel_1\">Del Howison<\/a> (Editor), <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/s\/ref=ntt_athr_dp_sr_2?_encoding=UTF8&amp;sort=relevancerank&amp;search-alias=books&amp;field-author=Jeff%20Gelb\">Jeff Gelb<\/a> (Editor), <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/s\/ref=ntt_athr_dp_sr_3?_encoding=UTF8&amp;sort=relevancerank&amp;search-alias=books&amp;field-author=Ray%20Harryhausen\">Ray Harryhausen<\/a> (Foreword)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Paperback:<\/strong> 256 pages<\/li>\n<li><strong>Publisher:<\/strong> Running Press (November 2, 2007)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Language:<\/strong> English<\/li>\n<li><strong>ISBN-10:<\/strong> 0786719516<\/li>\n<li><strong>ISBN-13:<\/strong> 978-0786719518<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I really enjoyed this book &#8211; this is the second of three volumes (so far) of horror anthologies from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/url?sa=t&amp;rct=j&amp;q=&amp;esrc=s&amp;source=web&amp;cd=1&amp;ved=0CC0QFjAA&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.darkdel.com%2F&amp;ei=hom9Tv4Lwa-IArigjIUD&amp;usg=AFQjCNGPHLTtdYhlA7oRUcv0LDPOW9I9BQ\" target=\"_blank\">Dark Delicacies<\/a>, a great independent bookstore in Burbank. You can read my review of the first book <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/2011\/08\/21\/dark-delicacies-book-review\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The first book had more famous authors, but this book had a theme, fear, and that somehow gave this anthology more strength &#8211; the stories had fewer traditional horror villains and much more raw, often unexpected, fear. For example, the story &#8220;Dog&#8221; was amazing &#8211; it&#8217;s about a guy on a bicycle followed by a large dog. But of course the story is much much more than that. &#8220;The Unlikely Redemption of Jared Pearce&#8221; was surprising and, in a slightly sick way, wonderful. And the twist at the end of &#8220;First Born&#8221; is, um, to die for.<\/p>\n<p>I think these books make an excellent introduction to the craft of horror fiction; if you like this genre you should get a copy of these books and read them.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img colorbox-6867\" style=\"float: right;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.zemanta.com\/zemified_e.png\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"translate_block\" style=\"display: none;\">\n<hr class=\"translate_hr\" \/>\n<a class=\"translate_translate\" id=\"translate_button_post-6867\" lang=\"en\" xml:lang=\"en\" href=\"javascript:show_translate_popup('en', 'post', 6867);\"><span>Translate<\/span><\/a><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/google-ajax-translation\/transparent.gif?resize=16%2C16&#038;ssl=1\" id=\"translate_loading_post-6867\" class=\"translate_loading colorbox-6867\" style=\"display: none;\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" alt=\"\" \/>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Title: Dark Delicacies II: Fear; More Original Tales of Terror and the Macabre by the World&#8217;s Greatest Horror Writers Author: Del Howison (Editor), Jeff Gelb (Editor), Ray Harryhausen (Foreword) Paperback: 256 pages Publisher: Running Press (November 2, 2007) Language: English ISBN-10: 0786719516 ISBN-13: 978-0786719518 I really enjoyed this book &#8211; this is the second of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[987,376],"class_list":["post-6867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-dark-delicacies","tag-horror"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2w3Qj-1ML","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6867\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}