Six Scary Stories

Collection of stories, not well represented in the description. It's an anthology of stories, none of which were written by Stephen King. Hence one star. Will read maybe at some point and rescore if appropriate.

These are stories edited by Stephen King. Most are short, and most are in the creepy, scary Stephen King vein. I enjoyed them all. Also included are short articles by each of the authors about King's influence on their writing.

Save your money and time and avoid Six Scary Stories by Stephen King. This book is horrible. I saw "Stephen King" on the cover and became so excited. He is one of my favorite authors, and I bought it just because I saw his name. When I started reading the book and I looked at the cover more, I realized these stories are only selected and introduced by Stephen King, not written by him. The stories are mediocre. A few gave a whole new meaning to the word "disappointment." None of the stories was scary. For all these reasons, I give this book one star. I am so sorry to do that, Mr. King.

unoriginal, boring, if these were the best I would of hated to read the worst, couldn't get past the third story and skimmed thru the second, I'm suprised I would think Kings picks would be at least on par with his own writing

The stories contained within this cover were riveting, giving a fresh take on several familiar situations. A quick read overall, but well worth the time. With each story (especially The Unpicking) I kept looking for the turn, and none of them disappointed.

I am giving this book of short stories five stars because I enjoyed every one of the six stories. Uncle Stevie was right about them all. If you enjoy scary stories, as I do, then you should give these a try.

I am surprised that Stephen King endorsed any of these stories. The only one I even semi enjoyed was Wild Swimming and even that would only get 3 stars from me. Fast, boring, sub par stories. Big waste of money.

Though Mr. King did not write these six short stories they are excellent nonetheless. I was not disappointed in any of the stories I read and I thank Mr. King and the Brits for sharing them.

I really enjoyed this collection of scary stories. Very cool to see Stephen King helping out some new authors. I think Free Swimming was my favorite, but The Unpicking was really disturbing. Great read; takes about 10 to 15 minutes per story…so can knock one out even when you don't have a ton of spare time.

I've found that any collection of short stories that Stephen King is included in, is always pretty darned great!
I actually couldn't put this book down.
All great stories!
Once again, thank you Stephen King!

Sincerely,
Your Biggest Fan! :)

Moderately good short stories. I've read a lot better in other collections. None had that snap you expect from a Stephen King selection of stories. Hopefully some future promise for some of the authors.

I was very impressed with these stories and writers!!! One of them I had a hard time getting into, but in the end, it was written just they way I needed to be!
Only problem, I finished them too fast.

Definitely Stephen King prose. Readers that have enjoyed his novels throughout the years will enjoy these stories (I've been a fan since Salem's Lot came out!) It was great to hear what he meant to the author of s each story.

These stories were written by amateurs for a horror writing contest. They were selected by the Master himself, Stephen King. He included the top six vs. just the winner because they were all so good. I thoroughly enjoyed these!