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The first 75 and last 60 pages of this book are just a list of things that happened this year. (?)Stories are--as most anthologies--pretty varied in quality. But there are a significant number of really good ones.
Always enjoyable. :)
Yet another MAMMOTH BOOK OF... read. I must say, I've become a bit burnt out on modern horror writing at the moment, which is tough because it's...well, not my bread and butter, exactly, but specific to some labors of love I indulge in. But reading an endless slew of submissions, and at least partially reading this volume with an eye towards possible purchases, I'm definitely...burnt. Best to recharge the batteries with the old and the different.Reading this particular volume, I actually found m...
Finally finished this book and the vast majority of it is absolute rubbish. The stories read more like writing exercises than anything else, some far too long and most too busy with prose or being ""proper literature"" to focus on a good story. They're far from scary, they are hopelessly predictable and based on old ideas, and you mostly find yourself waiting for them to get to the point, or conclusion.A very small number of stories do stand out though, Mark Samuel's ""Sentinels"" for example wh...
that the writer must have experienced such a thing because its like based on a true storywowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
this elephantine collection of short horror fiction from 2006 & 2007 has a lot that is mediocre but a good number of excellent pieces as well. the book includes a chapter on horror-related media in 2006 as well as a "necrology" of those that departed that year. not sure about the rationale for including the latter, but it was interesting to skim through.anyway, I'm going to ignore the dross and focus on the metal.3 stars"The Saffron Gatherers" by Elizabeth Hand is a gorgeous little mood piece ab...
I didn't enjoy this book... some of these stories cannot be categorized as"horror". There were a couple of decent stories the rest I had to Make myself finish.
I've read most of the stories in this collection, and, having read most of the other collections in the series, I have to say it's not one of the best. It's also not bad, per se. To focus on the positive, however, I'll just hit the highlights, which include "Sob in the Silence" and "What Nature Abhors." The latter is truly eerie, while the former offers a revenge-by-default plotline. "Making Cabinets," a brief portrait of a serial killer's significant other after the fact, is also haunting in it...
Honestly, the best thing about this book was the cover art. The worst thing was the overly long and self indulgent forward (~70 pages of forward vs 430 pages of story), wherein the editor soap boxes against the International Horror Guild and their snubbing of the anthology titles in their awards. It was an extremely awkward thing to read, an angry rant about the big bad bullies over at IHG, at the beginning of a book we are meant to enjoy. I'm not saying the editors concerns aren't valid- just t...
This just about got 2 stars, but a few of the stories, especially the last one by Kim Newman, which feels like it took up a quarter of the book, were great. But this is overall the worst of the Mammoth Books of Best New Horror I've read, 3 or 4 so far. I'll tell you right now what's wrong with this, and a lot of horror in general. The writers are too fucking serious!!! I'm so tired of reading horror stories that try to be literary, it drives me up the wall! There were some stories in here, like
The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror (Mammoth Book of Best New Horror) by Stephen Jones (2007)
This is a very solid Best New Horror, and even if it weren't, I would give high points for containing not just one of Kim Newman's Richard Jeperson stories, but a full novella! "The Man Who Got Off the Ghost Train" is a fantastic Jeperson entry, and I suspect Moffat and Company have ripped off the Diogenes Club series more than once for New Who adventures. Plus, "Houses Under the Sea," "They" and "Making Cabinets" round out the collection's back end to provide the requisite head-scratchers and c...
Great anthology! Look out for David Morrel, of Rambo fame. He writes a great tale - Them. Regardless, great anthology!
From the endless, intensifying 'Summer' of Al Sarrantonio's imagination to Kim Newman's final 'The Man Who Got Off The Ghost Train', these are very good examples of finding horror in the damnedest places and everywhere else. These are all stories that appeared elsewhere and are reprinted here as an assembly of the best.The Mammoth Book series starts off with a lengthy introduction that sums up the genre for the year, and ends with a necrology. Great history.
Some of the stories in this collection we're a little stale or played. I can honestly say I didn't like quite a few the stories as for the stories I like though I really like them and it was worth reading the whole book for them. Also at the very end of the book there's from useful Print House Bookstore and magazine listed that you may be able to send your short stories and manuscripts to. All in all it definitely deserves a 4 instead of a three or five in my head because there were some really
