by Margaret Atwood, Neil Gaiman, Jacquelyn Mitchard, David Morrell, Harlan Ellison, Ray Bradbury, Julia Keller, Bayo Ojikutu, Charles Yu, Jay Bonansinga, Lee Martin, John Maclay, Joe Hill, Bonnie Jo Campbell, John McNally, Dan Chaon, Kelly Link, Ramsey Campbell, Thomas F. Mon
In most of the anthologies that I've read there are often some good stories, some bad stories, and some in between. The end result is that I usually feel ambivalent. When I first started reading Shadow Show, I thought this anthology would be more of the same after reading the first story, which was ...
I'm really torn between 4 and 5 stars on this one. As far as short story collections go, this is pretty much 5 stars (there were only a few stories that I really didn't care for, and I read all but one of them). I think the only one I skipped was "Two of a Kind" by Jacquelyn Mitchard. It just seemed...
Very uneven in the quality of the stories. Most of them just okay, a few quite good. The only one I'd call great is Neil Gaiman's (no surprise), but the ones by Kelly Link and Joe Hill came close.
Gran, gran colección que conmoverá a los fans de Bradbury y probablemente saque una lagrimita o dos en algún punto. Se percibe el cariño con que se escribieron las historias y se atisban varios elementos de su obra por aquí y por allá. Hay una agradable variedad de temas y enfoques por autores muy d...
2 amazing stories, 1 pretty wonderful ('though it feels rushed). All are pleasant, but the weight of fond homage keeps most stuck in second gear. If you're a Bradbury fan--and why wouldn't you be--this is just fine, thank you, as we do a slow lap around familiar neighborhoods: lots of kids and par...
For reasons I can’t explain, I don’t read many short stories. Occasionally, a book comes along that makes me question my novel-centric reading choices. Shadow Show is one of those books.It is definitely a fantastic (in both senses of this word) collection. First, you have authors like Margaret Atwoo...