Outsiders: 22 All-New Stories From the Edge
by Nancy Holder (Editor) 
, Nancy Kilpatrick (Editor)
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In this knockout anthology, today's most important writers of speculative fiction cruise the abnormal elements of society and find a new wave of underground disorder, poignant horror, dirty kisses, and necessary anarchy. Including never-before published stories by: Neil Gaiman, Steve Rasnic Tem, Kathe Koja, David J. Schow, Bentley Little, Poppy Z. Brite, Joe R. Lansdale, Jack Ketchum, Melanie Tem, Tanith Lee, Caitlin R. Kiernan, Lea Silhol, Freda Warrington, Elizabeth Massie, Brett Alexander show more Savory, Katherine Ramsland, Yvonne Navarro, Thomas S. Roche, Michael Marano, John Shirley, Brian Hodge, and Elizabeth Engstrom ...all at their most brilliant and most outrageous. Here are dangerous games between lovers, howls from the dark, voyeurs and their victims, disturbed wishes and bitter dreams. Unflinching, uncommon, and underground, these tales vibrate with new life. show lessTags
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An eclectic mix of Gothic, horror and science fiction. Most have an element of intense violence which was not really to my taste. The writing however was excellent and the stories are gripping. It is definitely a great introduction to these dark yet thought-provoking genres.
I really liked this book as a whole. There were some tremendously good stories in it. There was one that just completely grossed me out on multiple levels, and some that I found boring. The same as you find in any short story collection. But it was worth the read!
Will add reviews of each story as I move through it, picking it up from time to time, not necessarily in order.
POP STAR IN THE UGLY BAR, by Bentley Little: Short and ferociously nasty, this story has no plot, instead heads straight to depravity. One of the sicker things I've read in a while. Can't recommend for the squeamish or offendable. I'm staying away from The Ugly Bar!
POP STAR IN THE UGLY BAR, by Bentley Little: Short and ferociously nasty, this story has no plot, instead heads straight to depravity. One of the sicker things I've read in a while. Can't recommend for the squeamish or offendable. I'm staying away from The Ugly Bar!
Bought this when I found out it included a Tanith Lee story, "The Girl Who Broke Dracula" an excerpt from the as-yet unpublished Blood Opera IV. HOW disappointed I was to read a fairly generic Goth-Girl-Loves-A-Scarabae tale, when I had been hoping for "Ruth Totally Kicks Cain's Ass For Him." Plus, "Breaking Dracula" turned out to be accidently destroying a videotape. Sigh.
I don't review my own books, or the ones in which I appeared. But I read them of course. ;)
Sep 1, 2015 (Edited)French
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Nancy Holder is the coauthor with Chistopher Golden of the original Watcher's Guide and several Buffy the Vampire Slayer novels, as well as numerous Sabrina, the Teenage Witch and Salem's Tails books. (Publisher Provided) Nancy Holder was born in Los Altos, California. When she was sixteen, she dropped out of high school to become a ballet dancer show more in Cologne, Germany. Eventually she returned to California and graduated summa cum laude from the University of California at San Diego with a degree in Communications. Soon after, she began to write; her first sale was a young adult romance novel titled Teach Me to Love. She is a four-time winner of the Bram Stoker Award and has received accolades from the American Library Association, the American Reading Association, the New York Public Library, and Romantic Times. show less
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