Legendary Horrors - Review

'A tourist unlocks a terrible secret that has plagued a small town for generations. A man desperate to hold on to his love makes a deal with too high of a price. A quiet vacation in a cabin turns into a nightmare for an elderly couple. An investigative reporter gets the interview of the century...with the boogeyman. Plus classic tales from some of the masters of horror.'

We all remember the horror stories of old, don't we; the legendary stories of vampires and werewolves written by the Masters of Horrors, for example, Guy De Maupassant and Théophile Gautier?

Well, how about adding those classics together with a new set of apprentices of horror?
Do they compare?
Do they achieve the ultimate in fear and horror?

Editor, Julie Ann Dawson needed to find horror stories for this anthology with a modern spin but that were also inspired by the classic greats of The Vampyre and The Mummy's Foot to name just a couple.

As someone who enjoys the horror genre immensely, I was particularly impressed with this collection simply because it steered away from the usual, more conventional means of horror fiction. I'm a great lover of psychological horror and the horror of the unknown which include mythical beasts and wild, out-of-control cross-breeds.

My belief is that anyone can write or put together a collection of stories of the 'stab and shoot me until I bleed to death' type horrors but it takes greater skill to put a writer's imagination to the test and also to play on the reader's greatest fears.

So, the question is:

Has Julie Ann Dawson achieved her objective?

My answer:

Without a doubt!

Legendary Horrors by Various Authors, Edited by Julie Ann Dawson