A review by sausome
Mad Hatters and March Hares by Ellen Datlow

4.0

A good collection of stories for fans of "Alice in Wonderland" and "Alice Through the Looking Glass". Like most short story collections, there were a handful I couldn't get into, but the ones that I liked were quite fantastic, for a range of reasons. There was fantasy, drama, character-building, mad-hatter-esque strangeness, dungeons, strange theme parks, and more. I quite enjoyed: "Lily-White and the Thief of Lesser Night" by C.S.E. Cooney, "Mercury" by Priya Sharma, "Alis" by Stephen Graham Jones, "In Memory of a Summer's Day" by Matthew Kressel, "Sentence Like a Saturday" by Seanan McGuire, "The Flame After the Candle" by Catherynne M. Valente, and "Moon, and Memory, and Muchness" by Katherine Vaz. This is the first anthology-type short story collection gathered on a theme that I've actually completed - quite telling of the quality of work presented.