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It wasn't easy deciding whether to give this anthology two or three stars, but I've gone with just two. Why? Well, it's generally hard to rate an anthology, because you inevitably like some contributions more than others. The main problem is that this book contains twenty-five works over three hundred and seventy-two pages, but only four of them impressed me. That's not to say that I thought all the others were bad. The writing in itself was generally fine, but most lacked originality, effect, o...
Touch Wood is an anthology about superstition. For those of us on this side of the pond it means the same thing as "knock on wood." This book was just average-good. There were some problems. First themed anthologies of "all new stories" are a dodgy affair. Do authors submit these or are they personally solicited by the editor? I suspect a lot of the latter occurs with themed anthologies, so you are not necessarily going to get an author's best work. Everyone horror/fantasy writer likes Peter Cro...
I didn't have much in the way of feelings for the stories in this book one way or another. They were pretty much all readable but only a couple would I classify as interesting or enjoyable. Most of these stories read more like anecdotes and at some point it started being strange that a book of horror stories didn't contain much horror and, although not necessary to a good story, the lack of adult language and behavior struck me as odd the further into the book I read.I don't think I can really r...
