Space Horrors: Full-Throttle Space Tales #4

David Lee Summers

FLYING PEN Press, Oct 1, 2010 - Fiction - 286 pages

Space Horrors is the fourth anthology of the Full-Throttle Space Tales series. Edited by David Lee Summers, Space Horrors contains blood-chilling tales of vampires and ghouls in space, by established and rising-star authors.Terrifying tales contained in this volume: "Poetic Justice" by Alastair Mayer: Space hibernation does strange things to a man."Listening" by Anna Paradox: It's Halloween on the run to Mars. What could go wrong?"The Walking Man" by Glynn Barrass: A giant robot on Mars is in the hands of mutineers."Natural Selection" by Simon Bleaken: The Zoological Institute warned Rebecca not to go study the bugs."Oh Why Can't I" by C.J. Henderson: The Earth Alliance Ship Roosevelt is pitted against a world swallowing creature."Last Man Standing" by Danielle Ackley-McPhail: Mining can be hard work, depending on who - or what - is doing the mining."Anemia" by David Lee Summers: Vampires prefer the eternal night of space, it seems."Chosen One" by Dana Bell: A particularly unnerving game of cat and...something."Sleepers" by Selina Rosen: Sometimes the nightmare you wake from is not as bad as the one you wake up to."Divining Everest" by Patrick Thomas: When the vampires call for help, you know it's bad."Into the Abyss" by Dayton Ward: Ghosts haunting the depths of space."Salvage" by David B. Riley: Insurance investigator Sarah Meadows is on a ghost ship and in trouble."The Golem" by Judith Herman: A friend in need is a deadly reckoning."In the Absence of Light" by Sarah A. Hoyt: Have you heard of the drifters?"A Touch of Frost" by Gene Mederos: Space is a hostile environment - except for zombies, of course."Wake of the White Death" by Lee Clark Zumpe: Who will rescue the rescuers?"Plan 9 in Outer Space" by Ernest and Emily Hogan: Making bad space horror more horrible ain't easy.

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User Review  - William Franks - Goodreads

A bit of a mixed bag, but my tastes run more to 'space' than to 'horrors'. Perhaps best read in small doses so as not to OD on the theme.

Review: Space Horrors (Alliance Archives Role-Playing Universe)

User Review  - Dan Fitzimons - Goodreads

Editor David Lee Summers has a particular knack for putting together short story collections. This is the second of the Full Throttle Space Tales he's edited, along with Space Pirates. They are the ...

About the author

Summers is an astronomer and founding editor of Hadrosaur Tales, a science fiction and fantasy anthology magazine.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Space Horrors: Full-Throttle Space Tales #4; Volume 4 of Full-Throttle Space Tales Series
• Editor: David Lee Summers
• Contributor: David Lee Summers
• Publisher: FLYING PEN Press, 2010
• ISBN: 098189576X, 9780981895765
• Length: 286 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / Horror; Fiction / Science Fiction / General