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Horror

Wolf's Complete Book of Terror

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  • 1979 first published
  • 408 pages
  • 3 editions
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Wolf's Complete Book of Terror is a 1979 horror story collection by Leonard Wolf, Helen Adam and Harlan Ellison. Much of the action takes place in Toledo. Characters include Aylmer, Georgiana and Father Time. Key subjects include Fear, pendulums, Spanish Inquisition and cats.

6 Open Library readers have it on their want-to-read list. It has been published in 3 editions.

It runs to roughly 408 pages — 7–8 hours of reading at an average pace.

Themes, setting & tropes

Genres

Tropes

Setting

Characters

Subjects

  • American Horror tales
  • American Short stories
  • Children's fiction
  • Fear
  • Horror
  • Horror stories
  • Pendulums
  • Spanish Inquisition
  • Horror fiction
  • Cats
  • Short story
  • First-person narrative
  • Unreliable narrators
  • Self-hatred
  • Gallows
  • Literary collections

Quick answers

Who wrote Wolf's Complete Book of Terror?

Wolf's Complete Book of Terror was written by Leonard Wolf, Helen Adam and Harlan Ellison and first published in 1979.

What genre is Wolf's Complete Book of Terror?

It is usually shelved as Horror.

How long is Wolf's Complete Book of Terror?

The median edition has 408 pages, about 7–8 hours of reading at 250 words per minute.

What books are similar to Wolf's Complete Book of Terror?

Readers who like it often enjoy The Annotated Poe [26 stories, 6 poems], Edgar Allan Poe's Premium Horror and Weird Fiction [19 stories, 14 poems] and Le chat noir et autres nouvelles (Black Cat / Colloquy of Monos and Una / Conversation of Euros and Charm Ion / Descent Into the Maelstrom / Imp of the Perverse / Loss of Breath / Ms. Found in a Bottle / Pit and the Pendulum).

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