Making my way through the stories and this is a great value for an anthology and it can be difficult to guess how old some stories actually are. The pack has a lite lovecraftian feel to it with "modern" urban science fiction at least when the story was originally written much of it closer to 1900 than 2000 which is remarkable. There is a classic lovecraft style story towards the end that I had read in some anthology before I believe. The Laminated Woman feels very black and white twilight zone/outer limits like in style. Warren Lapine's famous dead people story was short but sweet as an idea and made me think of Traitor to the Living by Philip Jose Farmer and how much fun it would be to combine those ideas. Hack death if you will. The Sheckley story was as unusual as per normal for him.
There are however typos that I tried to report to the email listed but I had a mail delivery failure. The funniest is "Codhead" instead of Godhead on location 3067 and forgotten at 3049 is another in the same story. She who must not be named had several small words misspelled in her lynx tale. The Poul Anderson story ends out of the blue so I'm guessing there is an error there. I looked up the length of the witch of the demon seas so I'd guess about half of the story is missing from this collection as it ends on part III.
There is an early tale that bothered me and even with the ending I was disturbed by the tale written from the point of view of one of the monsters. The Camael tale would be a perfect story for the In Nomine game.
In summary, this anthology is well worth the price of admission just for a couple of the tales within let alone all of them in a 500+ page book.
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