These Stephen King penned short stories really recall the classic EC horror comics of the 1950s. It also helps that George A. Romero mixes in the garish comic book colors to every story with each beginning and ending with actual cartoon/comic book sequences.

The stories themselves are all good. There is some corny gore, with lots of really red blood, but not much in the way of slashings, stabbings or anything like that. There are some jumpy scares, primarily in the opening story about a vengeful corpse in "Father's Day" and from the captured Antarctic baboon monstrosity of "The Beast". There are also a couple of stories of prolonged horror with the surprisingly funny acting of Stephen King himself in "The Lonesome Death of Jordy Verrill" and from Leslie Nielsen and Ted Danson, who trade a little torture in "Something To Tide You Over". And to finish things off, we have the cockroach chaos of "They're Creeping Up On You".

Choosing a favorite story of the five presented here is a tall order. Leslie Nielsen is nuts as the scorned Richard Vickers and he wins my favorite character vote, although Adrienne Barbeau, E.G. Marshall and Stephen King are also excellent.

The greatest compliment I can give this anthology is I can't pick a favorite story from all of them.