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Midnight Pleasures
| Author: | Robert Bloch |
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Valancourt Books, 2025 Tor, 1991 Doubleday, 1987 |
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| Book Type: | Collection |
| Genre: | Horror |
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Synopsis
Midnight Dreams (1987) collects some of Robert Bloch's best tales from later in his career, featuring his trademark blend of spine-chilling terror and gallows humor and an eclectic mix that includes three Halloween-themed stories, a Christmas horror story, and a previously uncollected tale first published in Weird Tales in 1939.
In "Pumpkin," a boy wanting to carve a Halloween jack-o'-lantern finds the perfect pumpkin in an unkempt garden, not suspecting whose garden it is or the horror that will follow. In "The Night Before Christmas," an adulterous couple looks forward to a quiet evening decorating the tree, but the woman's sadistic husband has other plans. And in "Pranks," trick-or-treaters get more than they bargained for when they visit the house of a kindly old couple with a dark and deadly secret.
These and eleven other stories represent some of the best of the prolific Bloch's later work. This new edition, the first in decades, features a new introduction by Bloch scholar Bill Gillard.
Contents:
- Introduction (Midnight Pleasures) - essay by Bill Gillard
- About the Author (Midnight Pleasures) - (1987) - essay by uncredited
- The Rubber Room - (1980) - short story
- The Night Before Christmas - (1980) - short story
- Pumpkin - (1984) - short story
- The Spoiled Wife - (1978) - short story
- Oh Say Can You See-- - (1978) - novelette
- But First These Words - (1977) - short story
- Picture - (1978) - short story
- The Undead - (1984) - short story
- Comeback - (1984) - short story
- Nocturne - (1985) - short story
- Die--Nasty - (1987) - short story
- Pranks - (1986) - short story
- Everybody Needs a Little Love - (1984) - short story
- The Totem-Pole - (1939) - short story
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