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Young Monsters

Isaac Asimov

1986208 pagesabout 3–5 hours
1986
first published
  • 1986HarperCollins Publishers · 208 pagesISBN 9780583309875
  • Harper & Row, Publishers · ENGISBN 9780060201692

The children in these stories have one thing in common--they are all young monsters. Some of them are horrid. Some are grotesque. And still others are diabolically clever at disguising their awful desires. Some of the monsters are unwitting captives of their fates. Others relish what they are--horrible as it may be. Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg, and Charles G. Waugh have selected stories by Ray Bradbury, Stephen King, H.H. Munro, and Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, among others, that will evoke both sympathy and horror. All will chill you to your very bones. Contains: Homecoming / by Ray Bradbury Good-by, Miss Patterson / by Phyllis MacLennan Disturb not my slumbering fair / by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro The wheelbarrow boy / by Richard Parker The cabbage patch / by Theodore R. Cogswell The thing waiting outside / by Barbara Williamson Red as blood / by Tanith Lee Gabriel-Ernest / by Saki (H.H. Munro) Fritzchen / by Charles Beaumont The young one / by Jerome Bixby Optical illusion / by Mack Reynolds Idiot's crusade / by Clifford D. Simak One for the road / by Stephen King Angelica / by Jane Yolen

How it feels

AtmosphereWhimsical

How it reads

CommitmentQuick escape

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Reading situationCommuteWaiting
ThemesFaith
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