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I like anthologies. I own over 40 anthologies of various types and themes. So seeing a collection that I've never heard of, features authors I enjoy, and was themed gargoyles - it seemed like a natural good choice.The first story was a little odd, but that happens. So was the second. And on and on, until there was a story that I still can't make heads or tails of. I'm not a huge speculative fiction fan, but I'll give it the benefit of the doubt most of the time. I give a lot of books the benefit...
Overall I enjoyed this collection, however it wasn’t one that I could sit down and rip through story after story in one sitting.There was a gravity with each one that begged for me to take a moment to digest what it was I had just read. By and large, that’s an enjoyable outcome to have from a good short story.I think the best way I can describe a book like this, as well as the best reason I can recommend it, is this. While it’s NOT a book you’re going to want to chew through in one sitting, it’s...
An original collection of stories all centered around gargoyles, each representing a different perspective on them.
This is an anthology of seventeen stories pertaining to gargoyles. Three of the stories are reprints and the rest appear here for the first time. The three reprints are by Charles de Lint (a very short story about a lonely child from the Borderlands series), Brian Lumley (an excerpt from a longer story that didn't make much sense on its own; I've no idea why they included it), and Harlan Ellison (his 1972 story Bleeding Stones, a good one which would have been called bizarre-extreme-splatterpunk...
Some good stories by strong authors in this one.
While reading the author biographies, I had to check the publishing date for this book. 1998! Wow, 12 years have passed since the authors wrote these stories and since then have received some big accolades.I particularly liked the stories by Neil Gaiman, Don D'Ammassa, Jane Yolen and Robert J. Harris, Alan Rodgers, Christa Faust and Caitlin R. Kiernan, Wendy Webb, Lucy Taylor, Brian Hodge and Harlan Ellison (for all it was quite violent). Some of these stories were somewhat explicit about sexual...
Some rare gems in this anthology, but not every story is the best. Still worth reading.
This was a great anthology with an electic mix of stories ranging from light-hearted and fun to the horrific with a couple of downright strange/puzzling/ambiguous stories thrown in. I enjoyed every story in this anthology (to varying degrees).
For my full-length review and reviews of each story, please visit Casual Debris.Though the anthology gives its contributors a wide range of possibilities with the idea or image of the gargoyle, re-imagining the concept of a gargoyle or simply re-defining it, there is still less than inspirational material here, and the three reprints selected for inclusion, beside the fourteen originals, do little to heighten the book. I cannot think of a mostly original anthology so diverse and at the same time...
I liked this collection of stories, though a few dragged a bit. I really liked the story by Neil Gaiman, but I love Neil Gaiman:-)