Shadows 4

There is no cyberpunk in this story despite the authors. Published in 1981 and with a feel for the night life of the era, this story is in the American paranoid tradition of seeing things that are not quite human in the interstices of urban life.

This is dark fantasy far more than it is horror but is still an essay in alienation - and of degradation as the 'hero' becomes obsessed with connecting with what appears to be a new form of life lurking in his own natural eco-system, the singles bar. It is tale of evolutionary adaptation.

Collection of 17 short stories. Most are less than 20 pages, one is 45 pages. Most of them are so short there is no time to grasp the meat of the tale, it is all set up.

I liked The Man Who Would Not Shake Hands, Hearing is Believing, and Need. I did not care for Threshold, Echoes From a Darkened Stone, or Waiting For a Knight.

18 sort of scary stories edited as a collection