The Supernatural Tales of T.E.D. Klein
This month, I found myself rereading the works of one of my favorite supernatural authors, the talented TED (Theodore “Eibon” Donald) Klein,. Born in 1943, Klein served as editor of Twilight Zone Magazine, and wrote Dario Argento’s film Trauma (1991). He’s best known for his horror fiction however, and though his output is small (two novels and a dozen short stories), TED Klein delivers more bang for your buck than almost any other horror writer. I’m focusing on his four best-known novellas, which appeared in his 1985 collection Dark Gods . This anthology is out of print, as are some of the other anthologies in which they appear, but most can be located on Amazon and at used-book sites, for prices ranging from cheap to utterly absurd. My readings were drawn from four different collections — Gallery of Horror (Petey), Dark Forces (Children of the Kingdom), The Mammoth Book of Short Horror Novels (Nadelman’s God), and A Mountain Walked: Great Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos (Black Ma