Editor Adams has again chosen one tale with a diverse background. Cadwell Turnbell’s tale of a werewolf apocalypse has an unfortunate Caribbean child being dragged by her father north across the US to a very cold place in Michigan. I liked it without being surprised by it. I am more eager to read the stories the author discussed in his interview. Kaaron Warren told a tale of a photographer employed at a funeral home who captures ghosts and uses them to animate corpses so their loved ones can make a final goodbye. I found it distasteful and confusing.
Those tales used conventional horror elements: werewolves, ghosts. The stories by Adam-Troy Castro and Seanan McGuire, by contrast, had social injustice as the monsters. (So, for that matter, did the books that Terence Taylor reviewed.) I don’t care for this trend. That stated, Castro’s tale, about the determination of the state to carry out the death penalty, will be probably be the one story from this issue that I will remember, and McGuire’s SJW whining about the greed of airlines was barely tolerable because the victims were the 'fat' and I am fat. ( )