Psycho-Paths

Rating:
Summary: Dont walk this path late at night..
Review: It's difficult to review a compliation without doing a review of each story but let me just say that this book is chock full of chills! The storys all mesh well together along the theme of "psychos" and each little gem is a great way to steal a few minutes of time for yourself during the middle of a hectic day.. or night. You will find that you may never look at the cute little boys next door or that poor stranger needing directions ever again.

Rating:
Summary: Anthology suffers from the curse of sameness.
Review: Psyho-paths features across the board (from black humored over to simply pitch black horror noir) stories from many talented and respected writers in the dark fantasy genre. The book does start off well with the hilarious Bloch roast "Them Bleaks", but then proceeds to slide rapidly downhill from there. The big problem for me being the core sameness of each story, even if there was a twist it revolved around revealing that one character was, gasp!, a PSYCOPATH! This is a problem that cannot be avoided in theme anthologies and, I believe, how attached you are to the particluar theme dictates just how successful the anthology will be for you in the end. The only other tale that really tickled my fancy was Charles Grant's, which contains the bare bones idea for his road predator novel "Jackals". Recommended solely to psycho stories buffs and those hardcore fans that will read anything by the writers they they idolize.

Rating:
Summary: Anthology suffers from the curse of sameness.
Review: Psyho-paths features across the board (from black humored over to simply pitch black horror noir) stories from many talented and respected writers in the dark fantasy genre. The book does start off well with the hilarious Bloch roast "Them Bleaks", but then proceeds to slide rapidly downhill from there. The big problem for me being the core sameness of each story, even if there was a twist it revolved around revealing that one character was, gasp!, a PSYCOPATH! This is a problem that cannot be avoided in theme anthologies and, I believe, how attached you are to the particluar theme dictates just how successful the anthology will be for you in the end. The only other tale that really tickled my fancy was Charles Grant's, which contains the bare bones idea for his road predator novel "Jackals". Recommended solely to psycho stories buffs and those hardcore fans that will read anything by the writers they they idolize.