Best New Horror

Rating:
Summary: Fine selections
Review: Here is my personal favourites, notes and brief comentaries about them :

Harvest - Norman Partridge - 8,5 - A little gem

Sometimes in the Rain - Charles Grant - 10,0 - A moving and wonderful ghost story !!

Dead Orchards - Ian R. Macleod - 10,00 - Beautiful piece of decadent writing, one of the best.

The Temptation of Dr Stein - Paul J. Mackauley - 9,00 - Excellent historical mystery

Waywang Kulit - Gary Killworth - 10,0 - By far the most original tale in this collection

The Scent of Vinegar - Robert Bloch - 9,5 - Black humour in Bloch's manner, very funny.

The Homecoming - Nicholas Royle - 9,5 - Mixes social realism with Cthulu Mythos

The Singular Habits of Wasps - Geoffrey Landis - 9,0 - Excellent steampunk adventure featuring Sherlock Holmes and Watson.

To Receive is Better - Michael Marshall Smith - 9,0 - Intense and depressing story about a mutiltaed boy.

The Alchemy of Throat - Brian Hodge - 10,0 - Another wonderful piece of decadent writing

Rating:
Summary: Another excellent addition to this fine series.
Review: The name Stephen Jones is enough to make me pick up any anthology, and this is is another excellent addition to the best New Horror series. Every story in this collection reveals a different aspect of the continually growing "horror genre," yet none of them leave behind the essential elements of horror; in all cases, the writing is what most stands out. Jones has the admirable quality of discerning talent in a wide variety of practitioners; frankly I was getting bored with the proliferation of really bad erotic-horror and splatterpunk anthologies.Jones knows that writing matters, and every story in this book affirms horror writing as ranking with the finest writing anywhere