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Grimdark Magazine is an excellent digital publication chock-full of articles, reviews, discussion and short stories all focused on the darker and grittier side of fantasy and science fiction. This collection of 25 stories has been collated from tales that have appeared in the mag over the past two years. And WOW, there’s been some good’uns! As with most short story anthologies I read, there’s some stories that grab me immediately and I absolutely love, there’s others that take a while to get go...
Some of the stories in this collection were excellent, some were not. One of my favorites was the story of what happened to Cinderella after she married Prince Charming. Another one of my favorites was the story with the Lady Grey at the battle before the city. If you like fantasy, short stories, quirky books I think you will like this one.
A super anthology of grimdark short stories.
Like most collections of short stories this collection has both less good and very good stories. Most of them were not as dark as I expected but then there were stories like The Right Hand of Decay by David Annandale which would be a very interesting companion piece to Edgar Allan Poe's The Masque of the Red Death. The most unusual story would have to be that by R Scott Bakker that remind me of HP Lovecraft though with slight more explicit violence. The take on a form contemporary Western by Sea...
Just awesome So of the very best Grimdark short stories I have read in a long time. Highly recommended and very enjoyable.
Meh. Most of these stories I'd rate 3 stars, and a couple 3.5 or 4 stars. Four or five barely worth 2 stars, and one very irritating story 1 star.
3.5
I ended up having mixed feelings about this book, which is the outcome for a lot of anthologies for me. Not every story is for everyone, so you just have to enjoy the stories that are for you. There were definitely stories for me in here but I expected to be really into more of them than I was. What it came down to was while all the stories fell in the grimdark genre some were just bloody violent fight scenes. I love fight scenes but for me they were lacking the story that makes me care about th...
I’m one of those who love my SFF gritty and dark, so when the opportunity arose to review a copy of Knee-Deep in Grit, an anthology of 26 GrimDark SFF short stories edited by Adrian Collins and Mike Myers, I elbowed my way to the front of the queue yelling, “Pick me! Pick me!”This anthology features tales by the likes of Adrian Tchaikovsky, R Scott Bakker, Aliette de Bodard, David Annandale, Peter Orullian, Michael R Fletcher, Tara Calaby, Victor Milan, James A Moore, Kelly Sandoval and others w...
A tidy selection of pieces from the magazine's first two years. It's nice to skip over the reviews and chapters to get to my favorite part [the prose], but the novelty of reading a magazine feels diminished as well. The magazine's
I’ve received and ARC from Adrian Collins in exchange of a honest review.Full review with personal notes: starlitbook.com/2018/05/15/knee-deep-...Adrian Collins and the crew at Grimdark Magazine has decided to put together an anthology featuring 25 authors whose work was published on their pages. And what a good idea it was! When I accepted the ARC I had only known two authors of those featured in this book: Mark Lawrence, whose Broken Empire trilogy I’ve read and Michael R. Fletcher so I dived
This book is a great taste of short grimdark stories, and though they're all classed in that "subgenre", there is a huge variety in this collection. The settings and styles are all different, but they share some common elements: blood and grit and darkness.I was actually surprised at the amount of sci-fi in this group of stories. All this time I thought of "Grimdark" as something one would get from Joe Abercrombie or Mark Lawrence, full of anti-heroes that cut and bludgeon people to death. You g...
Really enjoyed most of the stories and has definitely made me want to try some new authors. Great stuff
Highly recommended. Stories pulled from Grimdark Magazine (which after blazing halfway through this anthology had me buying all seventeen issues on Amazon), most are a hit. Some of my favourites: The King Beneath the Waves by Peter Fugazzotto - the collection opens with this corker of a tale of brutal Vikings and a bullied lad. Simple yet effective.At The Walls of Sinnlos by Michael R Fletcher - Any fans of Fletcher know what you are getting here. Fire mages, misshapen monsters, plague, delusion...
Fantastic anthology. I received an ARC of this book. First off do not let this cover let you believe this is all fantasy. While the majority is, there are tastes of urban, sci fi, cyberpunk stories to entertain. I found most of the stories very strong. Only a couple I was not overly impressed. Yes, the stories are dark, and some good twists to them.
This is a collection of short stories from some notable authors including, Mark Lawrence, a personal favourite of mine.For me, I find it quite difficult to read more than one of these stories at a time, because just as I start feeling the flow the next one comes along. I like to get lost in one long story and get to know the characters.Despite this, the book was filled with a fantastic range of stories, from medieval style swordsmanship to futuristic boxing matches.All authors should be proud to...
This is hands down one of the best short story collections I have read. There were remarkably few weaker stories in here. This is Grimdark Magazine's first collection and on the back of reading this I have immediately become a subscriber to the magazine. They seem to be engaging with all the top authors within this subgenre of fantasy. The quality of the stories is phenomenally high, and I have been introduced to a whole bunch of new authors to check out in more detail. I also appreciate that th...
