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This anthology knocked my socks off. I was very surprised to find myself enjoying each and every one of these short stories by twenty different authors who's other works I now intend to track down and read.
The inspiration for these tales was taken, pretty obviously, from the works of H.P. Lovecraft, a master of the horror genre, and these twenty authors have each delivered up something unique and darkly wonderful. Each author writes briefly about when they first encountered Lovecraft's work and the influence they feel that work had on their own writing right after leading us down into their own haunting little tale. The stand-out stories for me were: "The Crevasse" by Dale Bailey and Nathan Ballingrud which evokes a shivering sense of desolate isolation and doom, "Houses Under the Sea" a creepy, atmospheric piece by Caitlin Kiernan that relentlessly drained feelings of light and hope as it progressed and the Sci-Fi flavored gem; "Mongoose" by Sarah Monette and Elizabeth Bear.
This is an excellent anthology and I highly recommend it.
The inspiration for these tales was taken, pretty obviously, from the works of H.P. Lovecraft, a master of the horror genre, and these twenty authors have each delivered up something unique and darkly wonderful. Each author writes briefly about when they first encountered Lovecraft's work and the influence they feel that work had on their own writing right after leading us down into their own haunting little tale. The stand-out stories for me were: "The Crevasse" by Dale Bailey and Nathan Ballingrud which evokes a shivering sense of desolate isolation and doom, "Houses Under the Sea" a creepy, atmospheric piece by Caitlin Kiernan that relentlessly drained feelings of light and hope as it progressed and the Sci-Fi flavored gem; "Mongoose" by Sarah Monette and Elizabeth Bear.
This is an excellent anthology and I highly recommend it.
