Ooooooh …. spooky!
Normally I shy away from multi-author fiction collections since the quality and tone tends to vary so markedly. I can’t really remember why I decided to give this horror collection a try. Probably because it said Best of, so I figured it wouldn’t be awful. And it wasn’t awful; it was pretty good. I read through it quickly in two evenings. I can’t say that there were any stand-outs for me, but overall, the tone wasn’t overly genre. This was more like reading literary fiction in the horror realm than pure slash-em-aliens-ghost-psychic pulp. And there were some slash-em stories, and alien stories, and ghost stories, and psychic stories, a good variety of different plots and points-of-view. Nothing too frightening though (although I doubt anything is going to be as frightening as me being eleven, alone in the dark, and reading about Danny getting trapped in the snow tunnel The Shining). Just mild thrills. A good diversion.
The Best of Horror Library: Volumes 1-5 edited by R.J. Cavender went on sale May 6, 2015.
I received a copy free from Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.