by Anthony Boucher, Diana Wynne Jones, Avram Davidson, E. Nesbit, Saki, Frank R. Stockton, Nalo Hopkinson, Gahan Wilson, Nnedi Okorafor, Peter S. Beagle, Megan Kurashige, E. Lily Yu, Samuel R. Delany, Neil Gaiman, Larry Niven, Maria Dahvana Headley
edited by Neil Gaiman This is a collection of mostly excellent stories edited by Neil Gaiman. Naturally the quality of writing is set to a high bar and I enjoyed most of them very much. Except for Gaimans own contribution, they are all previously published somewhere, one as far back as 1909! Many ...
This book took me so many days to force myself through. I should have just DNFed it and found another book for the "Supernatural" square. Ah well. Not too much to say here except that most of these short stories were a flop IMHO. I have to say that the way these stories are pieced together doesn't r...
An outstanding collection of short stories of strange critters, with diversity of authors, time periods, styles, etc. Well chosen. Tremendously fun to read. Library copy
This anthology holds 16 peculiar and haunting tales of unicorns, griffins, werewolves, deathly plants and the graceful Lady Death herself. Each story is carefully selected and introduced by Neil Gaiman, and he has made a beautiful contribution as well. These 16 stories are very different and range f...
3.2 average = 3 stars. Some good stories here.**** [inkspot] - (1972) - Gahan WilsonAn ominous inksplot grows every time an obnoxious aristocrat takes his eyes off it. Both amusing and creepy.*** The Cartographer Wasps and the Anarchist Bees - (2011) - E. Lily Yu Just read this earlier this month i...
by Gahan Wilson: ★★★ The Cartographer Wasps & the Anarchist Bees by E. Lily Yu ★★★★The Griffin & the Minor Canon by Frank R. Stockton ★★★ Ozioma the Wicked by Nnedi Okorafor ★★Sunbird by Neil Gaiman ★★★★ The Sage of Theare by Diana Wynne Jones ★★★Gabriel-Ernest by Saki ★★★★The Cockatoucan or Great-A...
I'll say 2.5 stars.Sadly the majority of the stories in this tome didn't really do it for me. The ones that shined:- The Cartographer Wasps and the Anarchist Bees- The Manticore, the Mermaid, and Me- The Smile on the Face- Or All the Seas with Oysters (the ending was what clinched it)- Come Lady Dea...
There were a lot of good stories in here, but also some stories that weren't for me. I didn't like them, or (in case of the bees/wasps) I skipped it because I am afraid of/dislike bees/wasps.Other then that, it was a magical journey through weird, gruesome and thrilling stories. We got Unicorns, Mer...
Gaiman selected the stories in this anthology but was allowed to include one of his own, which is quite good. In fact, I liked all the stories in this collection bar the one by E. Nesbit, which has that annoying "technique" that many children's stories of her era employ of talking directly to the re...
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