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A well constructed anthology with no dud stories and three, from Adam Neville, Stephen Volk and Robert Shearman, that are superb.
Horror is a very special genre, and not to everyone’s taste, of course. But it’s not all blood and gore, as this anthology demonstrates. Here we have a collection of stories to engender dread, unease, shock and downright horror in the reader. Most leave you with the impression that the world isn’t quite as you thought it was.There’s a subtlety to many of the tales, a subversive undercurrent that makes the reader question certain well-loved attitudes about people in general. There is much psychol...
nullimmortalis November 2, 2013 at 11:43 am EditDoll Hands – Adam Nevill“Inside my stomach I feel a sickish skitter.”This story of a sheltered property and a banquet for its strange residents is not in one of your crazy cruel nightmares but in the real future. However, it is like a crazy cruel nightmare, not unlike a painting by George Grosz.Told by the one with the big head and doll hands, this story shows that the residents in the home are quite normal in what you would expect for a crazy cru
A solid collection from the BFS via curator Johnny Mains that left this reader wanting more. The standout for me is Angela Slatter's potent title story, which comes on like Theodore Sturgeon writing a particularly poisonous episode of 'Carnivale'.