Steve Rasnic Tem

17 histoires de vampires rassemblées par Ellen Datlow, ce recueil a attiré mon attention. Comme dans toute anthologie, on trouve du bon et du moins bon. Celle-ci m'a laissé une curieuse impression, parce que j'y ai trouvé de l'excellent et du très mauvais. Pas vraiment d'à peu près. On passe de la haute voltige à l'ennuyeux et fastidieux. Et le gore est vraiment gore. Ça passe parfois pour moi... pas cette fois. Pourtant, j'en ai lu, des passages très limite dans certains bouquins, alors il m'en faut beaucoup, mais j'ai trop ressenti la surenchère.

Mais passons, les excellentes nouvelles, magistrales, font passer la pilule. En particulier, The sea was wet as wet could be, To feel another's woe, Down among the dead men...

Je ne sais pas comment noter ce recueil, de ce fait, alors je vais lui mettre la moyenne, puisque ça reflète mon impression sur l'ensemble des récits.

Notez que ça doit être la toute première fois que j'écris un retour en français sur un ouvrage n'ayant pas été traduit. Je ne sais pas ce qui est préférable, en fait.

Les maîtres modernes du macabre bring the dead to life in this specially re-vamped edition of the classic compilation every horror fan will want to sink their teeth into.

From an award-winning editor who knows the genre backwards, here is the very best in vampire fiction: from tales of tempting sirens to contemporary serial killers; from the dark origins of fairy tales to a modern reinterpretation of the King of the Undead himself, Count Dracula.

This revised edition features over a dozen new stories, including Tina Rath's A Trick of the Dark and Kim Newman's Andy Warhol's Dracula, as well as classic novellas such as Hugh B. Cave's Stragella and Chelsea Quinn Yarbro's Investigating Jericho. There are contributions by Nancy Kilpatrick, Christopher Fowler, Paul Mcauley, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, Tina Rath, Neil Gaiman, Harlan Ellison and Kim Newman.

Great collection of stories by a variety of authors. There are shorter stories that are very good, but the novellas made the book for me. There were only two stories that didn't interest me and I skipped. That's not bad for such a large book, and believe me, it lives up to its name, it is big!

- Human Remains - Clive Barker

- Necros - Brian Lumley

- The Man Who Loved the Vampire Lady - Brian M. Stableford

- A Place to Stay - Michael Marshall Smith

- The Brood - Ramsey Campbell

- Root Cellar - Nancy Kilpatrick

- Hungarian Rhapsody - Robert Bloch

- The Legend of Dracula Reconsidered as a Prime-Time TV Special - Christopher Fowler

- Vampire - Richard Christian Matheson

- Stragella - Hugh B. Cave

- A Week in the Unlife - David J. Schow

- The House at Evening - Frances Garfield

- Vampyrhhic Outcast - Simon Clark

- The Labyrinth - R. Chetwynd-Hayes

- Beyond Any Measure - Karl Edward Wagner

- Doctor Porthos - Basil Copper

- Straight to hell - Paul McAuley

- It Only Comes Out at Night - Dennis Etchison

- Investigating Jericho - Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

- Dracula's Chair - Peter Tremayne

- A Taste for Blood - Sydney J. Bounds

- The Better Half - Melanie Tem

- The Devil's Tritone - John Burke

- Chastel - Manly Wade Wellman

- der Untergang des Abendlandesmenschen - Howard Waldrop

- Red as Blood - Tanith Lee

- Laird of Dunain - Graham Masterton

- A Trick of the Dark - Tina Rath

- Midnight Mass - F. Paul Wilson

- Blood Gothic - Nancy Holder

- Yellow Fog - Les Daniels

- Fifteen Cards from a Vampire Tarot - Neil Gaiman

- Vintage Domestic - Steve Rasnic Tem

- Try a Dull Knife - Harlan Ellison

- Andy Warhol's Dracula - Kim Newman