One of the earliest Horror anthologies, containing some of the creepiest short stories that have been retold over and over again. Though the direction is divided among different talents, the end result is cohesive, building to a nightmare climax that combines all the stories. Most famous is Alberto Cavalcanti’s, “The Ventriloquist’s Dummy,” about a ventriloquist haunted into believing his own dummy is out to get him. Perhaps the most picked-over idea, nevertheless the unpleasant-looking wooden dummy named “Hugo” hasn’t lost much of his creepiness. Decades later, you can count on it to make any list of the greatest anthology segments of all time.
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