Jack Kamen

Jack Kamen's stories for The Vault of Horror, Tales From the Crypt, and The Haunt of Fear favoured unnerving creepiness over gruesome shock. With his penchant for deft delineations of scheming women, jealous husbands, murderous love triangles, and not-so-innocent children, Kamen's pen laid down a precise, sure line that brought each story's shock ending into sharp relief. This volume features...

Stories in this volume include The Martian Monster, in which a 9-year-old boy befriends a Martian in the woods and asks him to kill his stepmother — but the "Martian" convinces him that it’s really his father who he should target. There’s sharp social commentary in …And Then There Were Two! (highly intelligent robots unveil a plan for world peace,...