A review by kali
The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 22 by Stephen Jones

4.0

Some of these stories have really stayed with me. 'A Revelation of Cormorants', 'Fort Clay, Louisiana: A tragical history', 'Just Outside Our Windows, Deep Inside Our Walls', 'With the Angels' offer a highly varied range of ways to terrify, to fill me with dread for what will surely, inevitably come. The collection contains stories set across the globe, though it felt uneven in offering very few stories from female horror writers. The best of these was 'Lavender and Lychgates' by Angela Slatter, which I have read before, but enjoyed again. My favourite story in the collection was 'Oh I Do Like to Be Beside the Seaside', for the real-life horror of life in former holiday towns in sharp economic decline.