Fantasy Gone Wrong

I like to get short story anthologies, because they're interruptable (I have issues with putting a book down mid-plot to go do something else; I'm not good at it), they often introduce new writers or allow a favorite and much-read author to explore genres other than what I normally see them in, and they're just all around cool.

This one was something of a disappointment. The stories weren't all that interesting, and I often found myself bored or irritated only a few paragraphs in. It wasn't captivating, descriptive writing. It just didn't deliver. ( )

Hit and miss, as happens in most anthologies. There were some stories I liked quite a lot, and others that I skimmed (or skipped). Most of the stories were short enough to get through in about five minutes--perfect! ( )

The tile is accurate. ( )

Nifty idea, hilarious cover, so-so story selection. The first and last few are just fine. The majority in the middle are non-fantasy stories written with fantasy characters or merely well-known fantastic characters' names: parodies, I suppose, of both fantasy and another genre (e.g., hard-boiled detective fiction in the case of "The Murder of Mr. Wolf"). Those ones are silly but not charming. ( )

These stories make you smile by taking traditional fantasy formulas and giving them a good twist. ( )