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A review by magaramach
The New Voices of Fantasy by Eugene Fisher, Brooke Bolander
4.0
Short story collections are always so hit-or-miss, but I actually had a very good time with this one. None of them are exactly the sort of stories you'll remember a year from now, but they were all a good time to read.
My favourites, in order of how good:
Max Gladstone's A Kiss With Teeth - Dracula has settled in the suburbs and it's so good.
Carmen Maria Machado's the Husband Stitch - this one is going to stick with me, in the way good horror always does.
Usman T. Malik's The Pauper Prince - I read a short story by him a couple weeks ago, which was the reason I picked this one up. His short story in here was wonderful as well, twisting and telling stories within stories and with a mystery at the middle I was so intrigued by.
Maria Dahvana Headley's The Tallest Doll in New York City - not spoiling this one just read it.
Chris Tarry's Here Be Dragons - a scam artist dragon hunter is out of work so he reconnects with his kids.
The only ones I was properly disappointed by were Amal El-Mohtar's Wing, because I normally enjoy her writing so much, and Eugene Fischer's My Time Among the Bridge Blowers, which was incomprehensible.
My favourites, in order of how good:
Max Gladstone's A Kiss With Teeth - Dracula has settled in the suburbs and it's so good.
Carmen Maria Machado's the Husband Stitch - this one is going to stick with me, in the way good horror always does.
Usman T. Malik's The Pauper Prince - I read a short story by him a couple weeks ago, which was the reason I picked this one up. His short story in here was wonderful as well, twisting and telling stories within stories and with a mystery at the middle I was so intrigued by.
Maria Dahvana Headley's The Tallest Doll in New York City - not spoiling this one just read it.
Chris Tarry's Here Be Dragons - a scam artist dragon hunter is out of work so he reconnects with his kids.
The only ones I was properly disappointed by were Amal El-Mohtar's Wing, because I normally enjoy her writing so much, and Eugene Fischer's My Time Among the Bridge Blowers, which was incomprehensible.