You get all fifty at one fell swoop. It’s forty-nine truly classic tales of terror and the supernatural presumed public domain plus one story by the editor, Steve Dustcircle, a harrowing tale of egomania.
I spent more time than I should admit looking at the flourishes in the typography and trying to decide if the author’s last name is Dustcircle or Rustcircle.
EricL
8 years ago
Horror with a hint of the Amazon “smile”
Nightmares of Jeff Bezos…
misterfweem
8 years ago
Shirley Jackson’s story “The Lottery” isn’t in the public domain, yet Mr. Rustcircle has included it in this collection.
That’s a problem with editors who dredge the internet for public domain space filler: fans post transcripts of their fave stories which may still be under copyright, or copyright has been properly renewed. Careless editors may fail to do a thorough copyright search.
Wikisource has postings of a lot of public domain works; their notes: Author: Shirley Jackson, The Lottery (1948) – Copyrighted in the United States until 2043
A preliminary search indicated that this author’s works are still protected under copyright law, and cannot be hosted on Wikisource.
At Amazon The Frightful Fifty is offered in two parts of 25 stories each. The Look Inside! previews’ credit pages mention only (c) 2015 Steve Dustcircle. My guess is that everything besides his story was presumed P.D.
Naaman Brown
8 years ago
It is really hard for me to be frightened by this cover when the first letter of each word in the title and byline has a smiley under it . . . grimaces with fangs might be scary, one or two with a forked tongue for added creepy, but smileys, frightful? Naw.
It’s that picket fence. I’ve always thought they looked sinister.
So, counting the cover, that’s fifty-one.
The trees… are plotting to kill you!
They hate us for our legs.
Surely the author’s name is good for an om-nom-nom de plume.
Does this mean there are another forty-nine to come?
You get all fifty at one fell swoop. It’s forty-nine truly classic tales of terror and the supernatural presumed public domain plus one story by the editor, Steve Dustcircle, a harrowing tale of egomania.
I spent more time than I should admit looking at the flourishes in the typography and trying to decide if the author’s last name is Dustcircle or Rustcircle.
Horror with a hint of the Amazon “smile”
Nightmares of Jeff Bezos…
Shirley Jackson’s story “The Lottery” isn’t in the public domain, yet Mr. Rustcircle has included it in this collection.
That’s a problem with editors who dredge the internet for public domain space filler: fans post transcripts of their fave stories which may still be under copyright, or copyright has been properly renewed. Careless editors may fail to do a thorough copyright search.
I would go so far as to say a careless editor is not an editor at all.
Wikisource has postings of a lot of public domain works; their notes:
Author: Shirley Jackson, The Lottery (1948) – Copyrighted in the United States until 2043
A preliminary search indicated that this author’s works are still protected under copyright law, and cannot be hosted on Wikisource.
At Amazon The Frightful Fifty is offered in two parts of 25 stories each. The Look Inside! previews’ credit pages mention only (c) 2015 Steve Dustcircle. My guess is that everything besides his story was presumed P.D.
It is really hard for me to be frightened by this cover when the first letter of each word in the title and byline has a smiley under it . . . grimaces with fangs might be scary, one or two with a forked tongue for added creepy, but smileys, frightful? Naw.