Via Shawn Rutlede of Skullring.org

Anthologies are really great. Most of you already know this, but for those that don’t let my lay it out for you. An entire book full of short stories; sometimes with a theme, sometimes without. The good part about this is that unlike novels, if the writing sucks you can skip ahead a few pages and start something by someone else. The downside of this is that most anthologies only have a few good stories a smattering of mediocre ones, and a lot of crap for filler.

But then occasionally you get an antho like Horror Library: Volume 1, which is good from cover to cover. And consisting of thirty tales, there was a fair amount of room to screw up. And a grand amount of variety. You definitely do not get the first, since every tale in here is good, and some are even great. The second though, and this is the real selling point of the book, is there in spades.

Read more: Review of Horror Library Volume 1 (Cutting Block Press 224 pgs.)

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