Great review. I feel like this collection has a higher than usual percentage of killer last lines--I agree that "Strawberry Spring," for example, is pretty predictable, but I've spent years loving that ending. And I can immediately come up with the last lines of several others, too.
Especially agreed on "The Mangler" (it gets an unfairly bad rap!), "The Ledge" (perfectly tense Hitchcockian genius, with another excellent last line), "Children of the Corn" (a classic fully responsible for me being thoroughly creeped out by cornfields, which was very inconvenient when I lived in the Midwest), and "The Last Rung on the Ladder" (which I have never read without crying).
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Especially agreed on "The Mangler" (it gets an unfairly bad rap!), "The Ledge" (perfectly tense Hitchcockian genius, with another excellent last line), "Children of the Corn" (a classic fully responsible for me being thoroughly creeped out by cornfields, which was very inconvenient when I lived in the Midwest), and "The Last Rung on the Ladder" (which I have never read without crying).