With this volume Mike Kelly has moved his anthology to a yearly release and the first one jumps out of the gate and hits the ground running.The S&T line of horror collections focus on the more literate and slow burn style of story telling. Each release has done an admirable job with an attendant increase in quality as Mike Kelly's work in putting these collections out has gathered more attention and critical acclaim.This volume continues the trend and hits new highs. The same introspective style...

I’d been seeing the series Shadows and Tall Trees for a while before I finally purchased a volume at a convention. With a cover like that, how could I resist? The stories are the kind of atmospheric that gets me going—creeping weirdness, the world a little bit off, everything balanced on a knife’s edge between urgent and hypnotic—although the characters or plots didn’t always keep my attention. While I enjoyed the feeling of the stories, I didn’t find very many of them satisfying. I discovered a...

Shadows & Tall Trees is the premiere journal for weird fiction. Editor Michael Kelly never fails to combine a stellar lineup of stories exploring the liminal and strange. The most recent volume, Issue 6, is special in more ways than one. It is the first Shadows & Tall Trees to be released since Undertow became an imprint of ChiZine Publications. It also marks the series growing from a smaller journal format to a full blown anthology, containing seventeen stories. This volume is also dedicated to...

All around excellet collection of dark fiction. Tends towards understated and unsettling rather than gruesome and gory, but a fine collection. Highlights include “Onanon,” “The Quiet Room,” “The Space Between,” and “Writings Found in a Red Notebook.” My full review was posted online at Hellnotes (http://hellnotes.com/shadows-and-tall...).

Great stories for the most part, but some are too subtle for my taste. That doesn't mean they are bad, just some are not for me. I'm excited for volume 7!

Quality weird fiction in the vein of NIGHTSCRIPT (a younger publication, but one I was introduced to earlier than S&TT)

My average rating for the stories in this book comes out to 3.58, thus rounding up to 4 stars.My review of the stories can be read in this thread, posts 51 to 70:https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

I love short horror fiction. I read lots of it: magazines, ezines, collections, anthologies and single stories, but I don’t think I’ve ever read a book quite like this one.Editor Michael Kelly obviously likes a certain kind of horror: contemporary, literary, subtle and undefined. There are no zombies, no vampires, no chainsaw-wielding psychopaths. Instead there are expertly drawn characters dealing with terrible things.There are two main things that make this book special, compared to other anth...

This sixth entry to the set really shows off weird liminal spaces and unsettling hauntings in the corners of your eyes. “To Assume the Writer's Crown: Notes on the Craft” by Eric Schaller is a fun post-modern deconstruction of writing that approaches “Notes on the Writing of Horror: A Story.” “The Quiet Room” by V. H. Leslie has an excellent haunting with a heartbreaking relationship between a daughter and her estranged and recently widowed father.

This is one of my favorite anthologies ever. I felt so fortunate the whole time reading it, knowing there was more to read, seeing it lying around, picking it up. It just creates a huge sense of pleasure for me, which is odd, I suppose, for something exploring darker, difficult, sometimes topics that veer towards Literary Horror in these Weird Tales and Strange Tales. I don't literally seek out being viscerally scared by a book, but something more subtly profound and beautiful,and the stories in...

There's a lot of anthologies these days with titles like "Year's Best Horror..." etc. 'Shadows & Tall Trees 6' isn't called such a thing, but it might as well be. A stunning collection of stories, with not a bad one among the bunch. Intelligent, well-written, original horror fiction and (along with the editor's introduction) a passionate manifesto for horror fiction in the short form.Superb.

This was a great read--a true representation of the weird and dark in literature. Michael Wehunt's "Onanon" took the blue ribbon, in my opinion. Looking forward to future issues.

Another cracking issue, now expanded to anthology length. Stand out stories were Shaddertown by Conrad Williams, Death's Door Cafe by Kaaron Warren, Apple Pie and Sulphur by Christopher Harman, Night Porter by R.B.Russell, The Space Between by Moore and Cluley and, my favourite of the collection, The Quiet Room by V.H. Leslie. The 2015 volume can't come soon enough.

A nice, diverse selection of spooky/weird stories. The writing is solid all around, and the subjects move well beyond the basic fare of scratches at the window and thumps under the bed. My favorites were Robert Shearman's deeply weird "It Flows From the Mouth," "Summerside" by Alison Moore, and Michael Wehunt's "Onanon" which was without question the strangest and most gleefully surreal piece in the collection. The scariest,, however, was a good-old-fashioned haunted-house story by V.H. Leslie c...

A great collection of weird/supernatural short fiction that leave more questions than answers. The stories focus on building atmosphere, and the more graphic elements are usually implied instead of described in detail. Standouts for me in the collection include "It Flows from the Mouth" by Robert Shearman, "The Night Porter" by R.B. Russell, "Shaddertown" by Conrad Williams, "Summerside" by Alison Moore and "The Quiet Room" by V.H. Leslie. Great mix of British, American and Canadian writers on d...

While many of the stories are more vignettes or atmospheric character pieces than traditional narratives, Shadows & Tall Trees 2014 fits the bill of 'weird' fiction very nicely. A couple stories fell flat, but those that did work for me had a definite Rod Serling / Edgar Allen Poe feel to them. It's an unusual connection, but Michael Kelly is to be commended for managing such an interesting gathering.The collection starts with a fantastic non-fiction piece, To Assume the Writer’s Crown: Notes on...