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I SHUDDER AT YOUR TOUCH

The high-voltage combination of sex and horror delivers its promised thrills in several of these stories, although some masters of the genre are seen at less than their best. Standouts include the lively and funny "Death and the Single Girl," in which Thomas Disch tells what happens to a temp secretary who has given up on life and decides to call Death at the phone number she has acquired on a bus trip to a World Fellowship camp in the Catskills. Clive Barker enthralls with his eerie and powerful tale of a housewife in the depths of despair, who discovers supernatural powers in both her rage and sexuality. On the other hand, Stephen King's "The Revelations of 'Becka Paulson" is a relatively tame account of another housewife's loosening hold on sanity after she accidentally shoots herself. Ruth Rendell also disappoints with a predictable and unsuspenseful last meeting of lovers. Other contributors include Valerie Martin and Patrick McGrath. Slung ( Momilies: As My Mother Used to Say ) places the stories in context in brief introductions and provides short author bios. Literary Guild alternate. 


SHUDDER AGAIN: 22 TALES OF SEX AND HORROR


As she did in her previous anthology, I Shudder at Your Touch , Slung assembles stories that come together at the nexus of sex and horror. She has selected works from a diverse group of authors who use different means to portray the nightmarish side of such ordinary human emotions as jealousy, envy and unrequited love. Three of the best tales have never before been published. "Aphra," by Nancy Collins, wittily follows the evolution of the narrator's boyhood fascination with X-Ray Specs into a spooky adult fetish. David Kuehls's morbidly humorous "The First Time" depicts an aging bachelor of the not-far-distant future who finds unwelcome his co-workers' gift of an android to re-enact his first sexual experience. In the sober, affecting "On the Lake of Last Wishes," Claudia O'Keefe writes of a young woman with AIDS who finds sexual fulfillment only in the dream world at the edge of death. Rarely seen classics by Robert Aickman, Arthur Conan Doyle and T.H. White, blend with entries from such modern masters as Harlan Ellison and Ray Bradbury to give this collection a freewheeling variety that highlights the entertainment value of its volatile themes. 
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4.0 out of 5 starsGreat Tales Of Horror
By Sebastien Pharand on July 22, 2002
Format: Mass Market Paperback
Michele Slung is an editor who knows a good story when she sees one. In this anthology, she mixes classical pieces with modern ones, popular authors with lesser-knowns, and eventually ends up with a collection of short stories that offers many frights, many chills, and a whole lot of fun.
The anthology opens with Stephen King's pieces The Revelation of Becka Paulson and closes with a piece by Clive Barker. It's no coincidence that the two biggest names featured in this anthology open and closes the book. Both stories concentrate on women suffering from dementia. They are both unnerving in their own strange little ways. The two masters of horror are at their very best with these stories.
Other stories that are worthy of reading in this anthology are Patrick McGrath's Cleave The Vampire, a strange little tale of dementia, Christopher Fowler's The Master Builder, Jonathan Carroll's A Quarter Past You, Robert Hichens's How Love Came to Professor Guildea and Eric McCormack's The Festival.
Unfortunately, like all anothologies, this one has its share of stinkers, though this anthology has less than usual. Valerie Martin's Sea Lovers is a story that has no real point of view and it never really ends up anywhere. And Ruth Rendell's A Glowing Future shows promise, but it never really reaches its full potential. And you can see that ending coming from miles away! There are also a few more stories that are slightly unmemorable.
I also have to mention that Robert Aickman's story The Swords is very shocking, disturbing and a great tale of horror. They just don't right 'em like that anymore!
All in all, I Shudder At Your Touch is a good anthology that offers many stories that crosses genres and that are often very distubring and terrifying in their own little ways. This anthology made me discover many new authors that I cannot wait to read again, and I'm sure it'll do the same to you.
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5.0 out of 5 stars"I Shudder At Your Touch": A Dark Anthology Written by "Top Shelf" Horror Fiction Writers (writers who prefer to go to far)
By R Grant on April 23, 2015
Format: Hardcover Verified Purchase
Best description of this book? "I Shudder At Your Touch" features 22 daring writers who prefer to go too far..." This is an anthology of "22 Tales of Sex and Horror," brilliantly edited by Michele Slung. Don't be put off by the title, the book is in no way pornographic...but it is "horror eroticism," at its finest! Ms. Slung has put together a short-story anthology written by "A List" horror-fiction authors. Among the "great names" in this volume are: Stephen King, Clive Barker, Ruth Rendell, Robert Ackman, Hugh B. Cave, Stephen R. Donaldson, Angela Carter, Valerie Martin. Here's an excerpt from the inside dust jacket: "There is no sexual act that is not dangerous...and every caress, no matter how innocent, has the power to open our lives to the dark mysteries of desire, the places where outrageous fantasies and fears are held in check. Held in check, that is, until it occurs to supremely talented manipulators of the macabre as S King, R Rendell, Patrick McGrath, Clive Barker...to let them loose, turning our erotic anxieties into art. Here are gathered the best of their chilling, thrilling, upsetting, and unsettling experiments with our sexual psyches..."I Shudder at your Touch" brings you a host of kinky, perverse, bizarre, and creepy figures..." I first read this book back in 1991, in paperback, and I read it to TATTERS! After numerous moves from one end of the country to another, I lost the book. While browsing Amazon, I stumbled across "Shudder" and it was like finding an old, familiar, extremely dark, lover. I couldn't resist ordering a hardcover edition of the book. One of my favorite stories is Valerie Martin's story "Sea Lovers"--an epic sexual horror tale about a man's erotic encounter with a mermaid, at night. The story is is so riveting, so dark & scary (and maybe...plausible??)...I would never dream of going "night swimming" in the ocean again. Published by ROC, copyright 1991, 379 pages.
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5.0 out of 5 starsAnother delectable collection from Slung
By Schtinky VINE VOICE on December 19, 2004
Format: Mass Market Paperback Verified Purchase
After having tasted the delicious flavors that Slung first put together in "I Shudder At Your Touch", I found my mouth watering for more of the same. "Shudder Again" did not disappoint me. This time Slung has dug up some treats from the past, from such authors as Arthur Conan Doyle, Charles Beaumont, Robert Aickman, T.H. White, and Mervyn Peake, combining their savory passions with such newer authors as Harlan Ellison, Robert Bloch, Ray Bradbury, Lisa Tuttle, Nancy A. Collins, Sarah Smith, and Claudia O'Keefe.

Beaumont's `The Crooked Man' I first read in my rare and treasured copy of the 1966 Playboy Book Of Sci-Fi And Fantasy, and its as juicy today as it was then. Sarah Smith's `When The Red Storm Comes' is a superb vampire tale of the old school, Elizabeth Jane Howard's `Mr. Wrong' is a slowly creeping horror over a young girl's first automobile, and Claudia O'Keefe's `On The Lake Of Last Wishes' takes us into the vivid dreams of a dying young girl, and the fantasy she finds there.

I enjoyed each tale in this collection, again with the exception of one I was lukewarm on, but the real treat is going to hit you straight out of the chute, with Nancy A. Collin's 'Aphra' being the first story in the book. It's a grisly and knobby adventure with a man's infatuation with skeletons. Superbly written and deviant enough to be delectable, I found it worth the price of the book alone.

Slung's second collection, like her first, only skirts the edges of both eroticism and gore, but includes such haunting, well written tales that the flavor of the stories leaves a stinging aftertaste in your mouth that is not unpleasant at all.

`Shudder Again' is a definite `Yes' to your collection of horror anthologies. Enjoy!
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4.0 out of 5 starsStartlingly Horrific Short Stories
By A Customer on March 30, 1998
Format: Mass Market Paperback
This volume contains one of the most terrifying short stories I have ever read: Ramsey Campbell's "Again." I defy anyone to read this story and not have their night's sleep disturbed.
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5.0 out of 5 starsGo Buy This Anthology
By A Customer on December 23, 1998
Format: Hardcover
Go buy this anthology. Stories are superb. You will not be disappointed. I've read it like a year back, but some of them (Ballard's, Ligotti's) haunt me still.
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-Selling 2 books, part 1 and 2. Hardcover version. Purchased abroad. Book a bit bended with matted pages, with minimal dirt due to storage, but still in good condition. Has a lot of life into it, still.


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