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My favorites were Away Game, The Icarus Club, Pickman's Daughter, The Art of Dreaming, and Being Emily-Claire.
Like any short story collection, some are better than others but none are awful and more than a couple are fantastic.
Really solid collection of shorts focused on a central theme of YA + hunter/hunted + Cthullu mythos. Some well-known authors contributed to the anthology so the overall quality is way above average. Nice mix of different themes and directions. Good eclectic mix of content. As in most cases, some stories were well above the level of others, but overall a worthy collection.
Though aimed at teenagers, this is a collection that is sure to wow anyone who likes their horror anthologies teeming with tentacles and misshapen things that go bump in the night (or day, or next universe over...) Packed with some of the best authors science fiction, fantasy, and horror have to offer, this collection makes the most of Lovecraft's mythos, to produce some of the best short stories I've read this year.There's really no stories in here I didn't enjoy in some way - usually an anthol...
Count on Seanan McGuire to use cliches and make desperate--but weak--attempts to overcompensate for boredom and poor pacing with stuff like "the way the walls joined together was just... wrong" (approximate quote). Never mind.
Shades of H.P. Lovecraft, oh my. If you like that sort of thing.
If you want a YA short fiction anthology full of monster punching, look no further! I became excited when I flipped through the table of contents, and I was not disappointed.“Away Game” by Seanan McGuire is fun, and I love the eldritch cheer squad way more that the events of the story. I would read more about these girls. “Pickman's Daughter” by J. C. Koch is full of fun monsters punishing the banality of high school. “Us and Ours” by Premee Mohamed shows a great friend relationship, and it’s ea...
“Away Game” by Seanan McGuire
Fabulous book, many exciting stories, I got it for Seanan McGuire but loved the rest
Okay, best as I understand it, the editor asked authors to take Lovecraft's idea of opening one's Mythos to other author's interpretations. Here well-known authors were presented with this background and asked to use savvy teens as the protagonists. I loved pretty much all the stories! Just short of total horror for my wimpy tastes.
Read for BFS Short Fiction Anthology Award category.
This has Away Game by Seanan Mcguire, and I will never not love her cheerleader stories. "The Art of Dreaming" by Josh Vogt is the best kind of creepy. "Being Emily Clare" by Jonathan Mayberry made me go look at his other books; sadly, none of them seem to be at all similar (possibly interesting, but not like this); the story is a strange mix of cute and creepy. "The Art of Dreams" by Wendy N. Wagner was solid and made me wish there were more to the story.The others were a mixed bag--none terrib...
Because we do love Lovecraftiana, we really enjoyed this anthology of short stories about teenagers confronting (or joining) the Lovecraftian/Derelithian Elder Gods.We were particularly taken with “Away Game” by Seanan McGuire and “Holding Back” by Lisa Morton. Both of these stories seamlessly pulled in cosmic horror and warped it through the lens of teenage dynamics. Although we have hit one or two stories that were less than stellar, the majority are solid and very entertaining reads. We highl...
