There are 18 stories in this collection, eight of which I read. Now, this isn’t the first time I’ve read Matheson’s work, and I’ve enjoyed most of what I’ve read before, but I’m not at all impressed with this selection. First of all, I bought this book expecting a collection of horror stories, not a collection of one horror story alongside a bunch of straight sci-fi stories. Perhaps I could overlook that if those sci-fi stories were good, but they’re mostly average, and pretty dated, at that.

I started a number of books this past year, but finished very few. This one won’t be among those few.