A Phoenix First Must Burn edited by Patrice Caldwell | Review

I don’t know what it is about this pandemic, but I am really ripping through short story anthologies. Maybe because there’s a feeling of accomplishment when reading one or two short stories per day. A Phoenix First Must Burn edited by Patrice Caldwell is a spectacular anthology that’s essentially a celebration of Black Girl Magic. There […]

Wastelands: Stories Of The Apocalypse edited by John Joseph Adams | Book Review

Wastelands: Stories Of The Apocalypse edited by John Joseph Adams is quite the anthology. It provides a decent sampling of genre sci-fi and fantasy writers, so if you’ve been curious about a writer, this is the book to try. I will say that I did feel like this apocalyptic anthology was a bit uneven. There […]

Halloween: Magic, Mystery, and the Macabre edited by Paula Guran | Anthology Review

I’ll admit — I was really looking forward to Halloween: Magic, Mystery, and the Macabre edited by Paula Guran. However, I ended up feeling like this was an uneven anthology with few stories that blew my mind. Thirteen by Stephen Graham Jones Well, the first story in Halloween: Magic, Mystery, and the Macabre is super weird. It’s […]