A review by shelleyanderson4127
The Outcast Hours by Jared Shurin, Mahvesh Murad

2.0

This is a speculative fiction anthology of 25 stores which explore the dark side. There is humor (you will never see the Tooth Fairy the same way again after reading SL Grey's The Dental Gig); horror (Silva Moreno-Garcia's Sleep Walker); revenge (the excellent One Gram by Leah Moore); the occasional vampire (Karen Onojaife's disturbing Tilt stands out); and some fine writing by the likes of Yukimi Ogawa and Chine Mieville. But the quality of the writing is uneven and on the whole a little disappointing, especially if you compare this anthology to the brilliant The Djinn Falls in Love.