For over quarter of a century now, editor Stephen Jones has been putting together the annual anthology of short stories under the title of Best New Horror. This, the twenty-sixth collection, is packaged beneath a lurid cover from the horror comics of the 1950s, but don’t let that fool you; inside are nineteen stories that showcase just how versatile the horror genre is. There are tales that would make Lovecraft and MR James proud, sat side by side with stories of magic, fables of ghoulish children and others that have little or no supernatural elements within them. What they all have in common, is the quality of writing.
Collections can sometimes suffer when some stories are weaker than others, often perceived as fillers, but this certainly isn’t the case here. Jones – a master editor
from Horror and Sci Fi Magazines http://www.starburstmagazine.com/reviews/book-reviews-latest-literary-releases/16125-bestnewhorror26
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