Above average anthology with no real overall theme. These old Shadows anthologies beat the pants off much of the current “Best New Horror” fare. I don’t know if it’s because the editors were better or they just had better fare to pick through. There are a couple of dated clunkers but overall the stories are good with a couple of outstanding ones. There are a few really weird or strange stories here that seem more effective because they weren’t so self-consciously trying to be weird. ( )

2019 I re-read Overnight by Lou Fisher still a 4* A little like the movie The Purge and the book The Bird Box. I read this story before both of those existed but during this re-read they came to mind.
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Really liked:
Leanne Frahm - On the Turn which I now own in a different book
Janet Fox - The Skins You Love to Touch which I own in a different book now.


Lou Fisher's was pretty good too.

~ The Jigsaw Girl by Stephen Gallagher 2*
~ The Lesson by Christopher Browne 2*
~ On the Turn by Leanne Frahm 5*
~ Moving Night by Nancy Holder 1*
~ Sanctuary by Kim Antieau 3*
~ Now You See Me by Sheri Lee Morton 2*
~ The Fishing Village of Roebush by Leslie Alan Horvitz 3*
~ Icarus by Galad Elflandsson 1*
~ Ants by Nina Kiriki Hoffman 2*
~ Walk Home Alone by Craig Shaw Gardner 1*
~ An Ordinary Brick House by Joseph Payne Brennan 3*
~ Overnight by Lou Fisher 4* ( )

Vampire stories: Now You See Me / Sheri Lee Morton (p. 51-56) -- Walk Home Alone / Craig Shaw Gardner (p. 117-128) -- The Last Time I Saw Harris / Galad Elflandsson (p. 157-168).