Stories : : All-New Tales

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On Shelf At: Downtown Library

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Introduction: Just four words / Neil Gaiman -- Bloody / Roddy Doyle -- Fossil-figures / Joyce Carol Oates -- Wildfire in Manhattan / Joanne Harris -- Truth is a cave in the Black Mountains / Neil Gaiman -- Unbelief / Michael Marshall Smith -- Stars are falling / Joe R. Lansdale -- Juvenal Nyx / Walter Mosley -- Knife / Richard Adams -- Weights and measures / Jodi Picoult -- Goblin Lake / Michael Swanwick -- Mallon the guru / Peter Straub -- Catch and release / Lawrence Block -- Polka dots and moonbeams / Jeffrey Ford -- Loser / Chuck Palahniuk -- Samantha's diary / Diana Wynne Jones -- Land of the lost / Stewart O'Nan -- Leif in the wind / Gene Wolfe -- Unwell / Carolyn Parkhurst -- A life in fictions / Kat Howard -- Let the past begin / Jonathan Carroll -- Therapist / Jeffery Deaver -- Parallel lines / Tim Powers -- Cult of the nose / Al Sarrantonio -- Human intelligence / Kurt Andersen -- Stories / Michael Moorcock -- Maiden flight of McCauley's Bellerophon / Elizabeth Hand -- Devil on the staircase / Joe Hill.
A groundbreaking anthology that includes outstanding tales by Joe Hill, Lawrence Block, Carolyn Parkhurst, Joanne Harris, Richard Adams, Jeffery Deaver, and Neil Gaiman.

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stories submitted by flora on July 19, 2010, 7:49pm This short-story collection contains a lot of what you might expect if you're familiar with Gaiman and Sarrantonio. Many of the stories are rather dark, some contain fantastic elements, and there are a handful that I wish I hadn't read just before bed.

As often is the case for collected stories, there were (presumably unintentional) themes, like twins, homicides, etc. The weird thing is how often stories with similar themes were back-to-back. I didn't really care for this editing choice: I don't like starting a short story with preconceptions, but many times I did because the previous story had taught me not to trust the narrator or that one of the twins must be evil or some such thing.

None of the authors have the storytelling abilities of Neil Gaiman, but the collection as a whole was pretty good.

Stories : : All-New Tales submitted by lstorc on August 6, 2018, 4:56am Well compiled overall