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    The Book of Lists: Horror: An All-New Collection Featuring Stephen King, Eli Roth, Ray Bradbury, and More, with an Introduction by Gahan Wilson
    The Book of Lists: Horror: An All-New Collection Featuring Stephen King, Eli Roth, Ray Bradbury, and More, with an Introduction by Gahan Wilson
    The Book of Lists: Horror: An All-New Collection Featuring Stephen King, Eli Roth, Ray Bradbury, and More, with an Introduction by Gahan Wilson
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    The Book of Lists: Horror: An All-New Collection Featuring Stephen King, Eli Roth, Ray Bradbury, and More, with an Introduction by Gahan Wilson

    By Amy Wallace, Del Howison and Scott Bradley

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    The phenomenally popular Book of Lists series has sold millions of copies from coast to coast, enthralling trivia aficionados with fascinating infobits about simply everything! Now the latest edition turns an evil eye toward the strange, the blood-curdling, and the macabre with spine-tingling fun facts from the dark side of entertainment. Chock-full of creepy information from the netherworlds of movies, TV, literature, video games, comic books, and graphic novels, The Book of Lists: Horror offers a blood-feast of forbidden knowledge that horror fans are hungry to devour, including:

    • Stephen King's Ten Favorite Horror Novels or Short Stories—learn what scares the master!
    • Top Six Grossing Horror Movies of All Time in the United States— which big shocks translated into big bucks?
    • Top Ten Horror-Themed Rock 'n' Roll Songs—maybe it is ‘devil's music' after all!
    • And much, much more!

    Drawing on its authors' extensive knowledge and contributions from the (living) legends and greatest names in the horror and dark fantasy genres, The Book of Lists: Horror is a scream—an irresistible compendium of all things mysterious, terrifying, and gory . . . and so entertaining, it's scary!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateOct 6, 2009
    ISBN9780061982378
    The Book of Lists: Horror: An All-New Collection Featuring Stephen King, Eli Roth, Ray Bradbury, and More, with an Introduction by Gahan Wilson
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    Amy Wallace

    Amy Wallace is a writer based in California. She splits her time between magazines and books. Her magazine work has appeared in GQ, Wired, The New Yorker, New York, Esquire, Vanity Fair, Details, The Nation, The New York Times Magazine, Elle, and other national publications. Two of her profiles—“Hollywood’s Information Man” (Los Angeles, 2001) and “Walking Time Bomb” (New York, 2019)—have been National Magazine Award finalists. An archive of her work can be found at Amy-Wallace.com. In 2014, she collaborated with Ed Catmull, then the president of Pixar Animation and Disney Animation, on his New York Times bestselling book Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration. Her second collaborative book, this one with former CEO of General Electric Jeff Immelt, is Hot Seat: What I Learned Leading a Great American Company.

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    • 4/5
      This book has a special place in my heart. If I recall, I discovered it in 5th or 6th grade and quickly acquired all of the series that I could. Even then, in the ‘90s, the book was hopelessly out of date and a few of the lists had to be taken with a grain of salt but, as I did not yet have access to the internet, this was one of the finest sources of random trivia and bizarre facts available to me. I loved every page of it (with the exception, I suppose, of the chapter devoted to sports) and poured over each list, taking down notes and lists of my own. Divided into sections by topic, Crime, Literature, Nature, Art, etc., there were all sorts of tidbits to blow my eleven year old mind. I remember bringing them everywhere so as to be able to look up amusing facts for friends and classmates at short notice, at one point dropping a copy into a mud puddle at recess and having to painstakingly dry the thick little paperback.Compiled by a father, sibling team, the lists reflect the time period they were written, but have a witty, casual style and, in addition to lists of facts like the ten countries where the highest percent of men and women live to 85, there are lists consisting of the opinions of famous people such as the ten worst movies of all time (circa 1977). Whether it was the five most hated people in history (1970-1976), the nine dog breeds that bite the least, or fifteen authors who wrote best sellers in prison, I learned a lot (particularly in the section on sex). In the end, I feel that there was definitely an influence there on shaping my interest in organizing knowledge and sparking my eclectic, multidisciplinary interests in learning as much as I could.Reading it today brought back this feeling of awe at the endless variety of weird stuff in the world throughout time, and I smiled as I remember being amazed or shocked by various facts that I now remember having been confirmed or questioned in my later education. The yellowed, slightly brittle pages still have that nice, slightly sweet tinge of a ‘70s era paperback, redolent of library book sales and middle school classrooms. The Books of Lists are probably entirely redundant now, what with new lists of bizarre, random amusing facts being posted by the hundreds daily on websites such as Cracked and BuzzFeed. How much influence have these books had on the other 20 and 30 somethings who make these online compilings? I wonder.
    • 5/5
      The original still the best when it comes to weird lists. It's almost as if authors Wallechinski and Wallace (x2) realised that this would be the perfect book to usher me into teenagehood. As a very callow youth I read this, and wondered who the hell William Carlos Williams (to name just one person) was, why the hell a protest against an English actor would lead to riots and deaths, and where the hell was Praslin Island? Once I finished (and read over again and again), I went searching t answer the myriad questions I had from reading this book, and thus I can probably link "The Book of Lists" to my prodigious knowledge of useless trivia.
    • 5/5
      I really cant put into words how much this book affected me when I first read it as a teenager in the late 70's I had always had a thing for lists, I used to compile things like lists of crew for imaginary ships and carefully detail what each's duties would be. Then suddenly I discovered a book that was nothing but lists and I was in hog heaven! I remember taking it on the school bus and reading the more salacious lists to my friends, who were duly appreciative. But I also remember consuming in my quiet time all the other lists, the quoting of which would immediate signpost you as a hopeless geek. Lists of history, geography, politics, literature. I loved all of them. I've been a compulsive listmaniac ever since, and can be guaranteed to purchase on sight any book with "list" in its title. I have probably read now more than 200 list type books, but this one will always remain No. 1 in my heart.
    • 4/5
      The Book of Lists - The Original Compendium of Curious Information by David Wallechinsky and Amy Wallace is a clever non-fiction collection of trivia and interesting stories and information broken down into the following chapters:PeopleMoviesThe ArtsFood and HealthAnimailsWork and MoneySex, Love and MarriageCrimeWar, Politics and World AffairsTravelLiteratureWordsSportsDeathMiscellaneousThe book gets its title because all information contained within each chapter is presented in list form. For example, in Chapter 1, People, we have a list of 6 People Whose Names Were Changed By Accident; which happens to include: Buddy Holly and Oprah Winfrey.Here are some of my favourite lists from the book:8 Memorable Lines Erroneously Attributed To Film Stars (Movies)10 Famous Insomniacs (Food & Health)10 Really Unusual Medical Conditions (Food & Health)The Cat Came Back: 9 Cats Who Travelled Long Distances To Return Home (Animals)15 Famous People Who Worked In Bed (Work & Money)11 Most Unusual Objects Sold on eBay (Work & Money)Witticisms of 9 Condemned Criminals (Crime)29 Words Rarely Used In Their Positive Form (Words)10 Celebrated People Who Read Their Own Obituaries (Death)16 Famous Events That Happened In The Bathtub (Miscellaneous)The Book of Lists is the perfect book to have on the coffee table so that others may enjoy the obscure trivia and hilarity within its pages. I also found it a great accompaniment to a novel I was reading at the time; enabling me to interchange quite easily depending on my mood.The Book of Lists contains a wide variety of interesting tidbits, and I just hope I can remember them all.
    • 4/5
      Addicting and charming. I've spent too many hours idly leafing through this book. As reviewer relah says, who would have though O.J. Simpson would top the 1976 list of boys' and girls' top 10 heroes and heroines.
    • 5/5
      I freaking love this book. I "borrowed" it from a church library when I was ten and have got hours of entertainment from it ever since. Ever wondered wanted to know 15 famous events that happened in the bath? Vincent Price's 10 favourite dinner guests from all history? 7 famous men who were full or part time virgins (John Ruskin is a personal favourite)? This is your book. Arch, entertaining and clever, this book assumes the same of it's reader. True, it's dated but that just makes it even more awesome. Somewhere in my copy OJ Simpson is the number one American hero.
    • 3/5
      Not really my cup of tea. These kind of books usually are, so I don't think it's the *book* per se, but the fact that it was written so long ago. Probably 80% of the lists in here had to do with shows/people/events that I've never heard of. I guess these kind of list books do get outdated eventually.
    • 4/5
      this is the 1977 version, and it has been updated since. The lists are many and varied. The more interesting items to me is when the editors take individuals knowledgeable in their fields and ask them for their "top 10" of whatever. For instance, Irving Stone has list of "the losers. 10 presidential canidates that lost that would have made better presidents than the winners." There is a ranking, too, of the top 31 presidents, in which John Kennedy's appears nowhere on the top 10 of the great and nearly great. In fact, it doesn't appear anywhere. Makes the whole book suspect to me.
    • 4/5
      This whole series was a lot of fun. The lists are out of date now, of course, but overall worth keeping in the bathroom for random reading.
    • 4/5
      Interesting lists of various things, often by quite imporatant and reknown compilers. The concept of the book is praiseworthy.

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