Anything edited by Datlow and Windling.

As I was not yet writing reviews when I read this book, I don't have reviews for each of the short stories included in this anthology. So here are my ratings; if I ever reread the book, I intend to add reviews.

★★☆☆☆ The Museum of Dr. Moses by Joyce Carol Oates
★★☆☆☆ Worse than Bones by Ramsey Campbell
★★☆☆☆ King of Outer Space by Peter Atkins
★★☆☆☆ Piano Bar Blues by Melanie Tem
★☆☆☆☆ Those Vanished I Recognize by Tom Piccirilli
★☆☆☆☆ Inland, Shoreline by Darren O. Godfrey
★★☆☆☆ The Window by by Joel Lane
★★☆☆☆ Author, Author by Gordon Linzner
★★☆☆☆ Hammerhead by Richard Laymon
★★★☆☆ Imbroglio by Conrad Williams
★★☆☆☆ Transorbital Love Probe by Th. Metzger
★★★☆☆ The Impressionists in Winter by Susan Fry
★☆☆☆☆ Whose Ghosts These Are by Charles L. Grant
★☆☆☆☆ Perdido: A Fragment from a Work in Progress by Peter Straub
★★☆☆☆ In Real Life by William F. Nolan
★★★☆☆ Pound Rots in Fragrant Harbour by Lisa Morton
★★★★☆ Apologia by Robert Devereaux
★★☆☆☆ The Bird Catcher by S.P. Somtow

As I was not yet writing reviews when I read this book, I don't have reviews for each of the short stories included in this anthology. So here are my ratings; if I ever reread the book, I intend to add reviews.

★★★☆☆ Sweets to the Sweet by Robert Bloch
★★★☆☆ The Father-Thing by Philip K. Dick
★★★☆☆ The Distributor by Richard Matheson
★★★☆☆ A Warning to the Curious by M.R. James
★★★★☆ Opening the Door by Arthur Machen
★★★★★ The Colour Out of Space by H.P. Lovecraft
★★★★★ The Inner Room by Robert Aicken
★★☆☆☆ Young Goodman Brown by Nathaniel Hawthorne
★★★☆☆ The Rats in the Walls by H.P. Lovecraft
★★☆☆☆ The Dog Park by Dennis Etchison
★★★☆☆ The Animal Fair by Robert Bloch
★★★★☆ The Pattern by Ramsey Campbell
★★★★☆ The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe
★★★☆☆ An Occurrence at Owl-Creek Bridge by Ambrose Bierce
★★★★☆ The Human Chair by Edogawa Rampo

This was Etchison's first original novel and it is a major disappointment. While Etchison is a master of the dark short story, he does not seem to be able to go past 100 pages without petering out. Nothing much happens and it gets boring really fast. If you are new to Etchison, avoid this and go for a short story collection like The Dark Country.

This is a anthology of original writings to celebrate the Tenth anniversary of Lord John Press; a small publishing company based in Northridge, California. It's a pretty damn impressive collection with stories, poems and essays from Robert Bloch, Ray Bradbury, Ramsey Campbell, Raymond Carver, James Crumley, Dennis Etchison (who was also the editor), Stan Freberg, John Updike, Joyce Carol Oates, Jim Harrison, Whitley Strieber, and Diane Wakoski, among others, 26 in all. The edition was limited to 250 copies, is beautifully bound and is signed by every contributor. There is even a page signed by President Gerald Ford congratulating Lord John Press for their ten years in existence! Needless to say, you are unlikely to run across this in the second hand book stores.