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(3) | 2 | A second collection of horror short stories based on the central theme of superstition. The contributors include John Brunner, Neil Gaiman, Garry Kilworth, Stan Nicholls, Charles Grant, Colin Greenland, Adam Corbin Fusco, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Paul Lewis, Steve Lockley and Yvonne Navarro. |
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This book was just average-good. There were some problems. First themed anthologies of "all new stories" are a dodgy affair. Do authors submit these or are they personally solicited by the editor? I suspect a lot of the latter occurs with themed anthologies, so you are not necessarily going to get an author's best work. Everyone horror/fantasy writer likes [a:Peter Crowther|38592|Peter Crowther|https://www.goodreads.com/assets/nophoto/user/m_50x66-e89fc14c32a41c0eb4298dfafe929b65.png] so when he asks you to submit something to his new themed anthology, a lot of authors are going to bite, especially the hungrier ones. The author has to tailor the story to the theme so there is already a constraint on inspiration. So we don't get the author's best current stories, we get the best stories the authors could write today focused around superstition.
The second problem is many of the writers here are decidedly second tier. Except for a few, these are not (were not) the lights of their time. Half of these authors I have never seen before and this was published in 1993, so many must have faded away.
So, there are a couple of above average, a bunch of average, and a few well written but virtually plot-less stories. Describing someplace really well and evocatively but having virtually nothing happen in the setting is not a story, it is a drawing. ( )