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There were some gems but also some costume jewelry.
This anthology is a 3.5 star read for me. There were a few major standouts and a lot of really good stories, leaving a lower than usual number of crappy ones. The main issue here is the marketing of the book. Peter Crowther wanted to put together an anthology based on superstitions. You won’t find that information on the cover though, and that’s probably because the idea failed spectacularly. Most of the authors admit to having no superstitions and a majority of the stories have no ties or merel...
A quite average anthology of light horror stories, with two stand-outs and only 1 clunker.
A fairly decent horror collection. Stories are generally based on assorted superstitions.
A PLACEHOLDER REVIEW: I got this through Inter-Library Loan to read the J.N. Williamson story, then discovered that two other pieces were on my "To Read" list, with another having been previously read and liked by me. So here's review's for all four.Darrell Schweitzer's "The Outside Man," (previously read in 100 Twisted Little Tales of Torment ) is a short piece about wishing for revenge that mixes in some Pennsylvania Dutch/Pow-wow folklore about the Waldganger (Woods Walker), a macabre figure
A frustrating anthology, ostensibly themed around superstition, and most of the stories blithely ignore this, or add a seemingly spurious element to qualify, which comes off, ironically, as more annoying. A good range of writers, but not all of them doing their best work; it comes to something when one of the highest rated contributions—at least by my estimation—is the introduction, though Jonathan Carroll and Ian McDonald also come out way ahead of the pack. Special mention to Peter James—an au...
A mostly-decent collection of stories written on the theme of superstition. My favorite was Nicholas Royle's "Glory," an unsettling story about an amateur wedding photographer who keeps seeing something strange in his camera's viewfinder. The narrator has a superstition similar to one I confess to entertaining at various times in my life: that certain events exist in a sort of quantum state, and don't become definite until you observe--or choose not to observe--them. Another standout was Robert
