The Night clock is a pub across from Les and Paul’s pub. Les and Paul don’t go into the Night Clock as they believe the cellar is a compartment of Hell. Barry was stumbling toward Lewis’s house. Barry only had one arm and was already dead Dawn is Lewis’s mom and feels someone should put Barry out o...
Given how much I enjoyed last year's Magic: An Anthology of the Esoteric and Arcane, I was definitely eager to sample another batch of tales, as selected by Jonathan Oliver, when this one crossed my desk.While I didn't enjoy it quite as much, The End of the Road: An Anthology of Original Fiction is ...
This was an interesting reading. I don't know why but usually I am not a big fan of short stories but I am afraid delving into a mammoth book of 600 pages or multi-books series, even at the same time I want to read several series I've got here. But since the other way I slept in my mother's home and...
Edited by Jonathan Oliver, Magic: An Anthology of the Esoteric and Arcane brings together a wide (and surprising) variety of authors from across the world, and across the genre shelves. Advertised as a "perfect read for Hallowe’en and the long autumn evenings ahead," it went right to the top of the ...
I remember disliking many of the stories. If I reread this, I'll read only stories from authors I like.
A couple good stories, but overall quite disappointing.
I can't take it anymore!!! I have to stop reading this book. It is so depressing and awful!!! Most of the stories I read were not good at all or just fair. I feel that some of these authors submitted story projects that they couldn't flesh out as a full length novels and started calling them a sh...
Of twenty-one stories, I liked five:Cat Rambo's "The Bumblety's Marble." Two youngsters retrace their steps to find a magic marble. I actually believed in the city, and the characters.Jay Lake's "Promises; a Tale of the City Imperishable." A girl gives up her name, her infant, her breasts--all to...